Roaming in Mengding Mountain
In the folk, Mengding tea has always been regarded by ordinary people as a magical thing to get rid of diseases. Therefore, Mengding tea with a long history is called "immortal tea", and Mengding Mountain, which is blessed by God, is also called "the hometown of immortal tea".
August 8, 2009 is the first national fitness day with the theme of "being happy in sports and being healthy in happiness". We five men decided to celebrate the first National Fitness Day by hiking in Mengding Mountain.
No sooner had we arrived at the ticket office than it began to rain in Mao Mao, and people with backpacks and umbrellas still filed in. We thought that everyone came to carry out fitness activities because of the first national fitness day in China. Upon inquiry, it was learned that most people came to participate in the sacrificial activities of Wu Lizhen, the tea god.
Mengding Mountain is one of the cradles of world tea culture and the sacred mountain of China tea culture.
The World Tea Culture Museum in Mengding Mountain is the most complete of the three tea culture museums in the world. There are Tea Performance Hall, Chinese Tea History Hall, China Oolong Tea Exhibition Hall, China Tea Variety Hall, Chinese and Foreign Tea Set Hall, Tea Painting and Calligraphy Hall, and China Tea Rhyme National Photography Competition Boutique Exhibition Hall. The museum also specially exhibited the origin, development, evolution, planting and production techniques of Mengding tea and the tea culture reflected.
In the Tea Painting and Calligraphy Museum, there is a famous painting with its own master style: Qi Baishi, who is in the year of disharmony, and Chairman Mao, who is in the year of flower decoration.
On the hillside, the garden art figures, which are posed by purple roses as "the top of the century is covered with tea and the world is fragrant", stand out against the green lawn.
A small stone bridge with a red and green body is set up on the Flower Deer Pool. There is an advertising umbrella in the center of the bridge, and there is a bamboo curtain in front of an old woman under the umbrella. As soon as people meet, they try their best to induce others to "reward" in the bamboo screen. I hate it very much, so I made a detour through the mud.
During the Qingming Festival, there are many rains, and tea is served on Mengding Mountain.
Mengding tea belongs to green tea, which is divided into three categories: stone flower, yellow bud and nectar, and also divided into many varieties such as Tongque, Mao Feng and Bitan Piaoxue.
The so-called tea before Ming Dynasty refers to the tea picked before Tomb-Sweeping Day, which is regarded as the best in tea because of its few pests, tender buds and leaves, delicate color, mellow taste and beautiful appearance. At the same time, because the temperature before Qingming is generally low, the number of germination is limited, the growth rate is slow, and the yield that can meet the picking standard is very small, so there is a saying that "tea before Qingming is as expensive as gold".
No matter what season the tea leaves are picked, they must go through the production processes such as air drying, enzyme fixation, rolling, fermentation, primary baking and secondary baking before they can be drunk.
Halfway up the mountain, I stopped and looked back. The nearby tea trees were full of valleys and pits, and the distant famous mountains and counties swayed in nothingness, just like a mirage.
Many places on Mengding Mountain are engraved with couplets of "Yangtze River Water, Mengding Mountain Tea". It was written by Li Dezai, a scholar in the Yuan Dynasty, in the Tea Shop (recorded in Xi Chun Lai): "Spring comes early at the top of Mengshan Mountain, and the water level in the heart of the Yangtze River is high. The Taoist bachelor is more coquettish. You should laugh, write off the gold account and drink the lamb. " This poem has developed.
Ya' an, alias "Rain City", Mengding Mountain is called "West Shu leaks the sky" by the ancients because of its annual rainfall of more than 2000 mm and rainy days of about 200 days, so it is also called "Ya' an is rainy and the center is Mengshan". Tiangai Temple on Mengding Mountain is said to be the place where Nuwa quarries stones to mend the sky.
The Royal Teahouse with grey tiles and red columns and cornices is definitely a good place for "busy fame, busy profit, busy leisure and having a cup of tea".
Sichuanese especially like drinking tea, drinking a bowl of covered tea and putting a "dragon gate array" can "steal half a day's leisure". Friends of Ya 'an have entertained me for tea and rest here many times, away from the hustle and bustle of the city and close to the green and quiet mountains. I don't want to mention how comfortable I am.
There are two parallel wells on the mountainside, one is Longjing and the other is Mengquan.
According to legend, the daughter of Qiang River God goes in and out of this well, so it is also called "Longjing". This well has a cover and a decompression dragon. According to the "Yazhou Zhi", "There is a bucket in the well, and the rain is not full and the drought is not dry. Later generations will build it with stones. Travellers are pious, and there is a special fragrance when they uncover stones and fetch water to make tea. If it is uncovered without authorization, it must be sunny and it will rain soon. "
When the tour guide with the group came here to explain the explanation that "it will be sunny and rainy soon", it happened that the light rain stopped at this moment. We lifted the lid with a group of tourists who wanted to witness the miracle and shouted in unison. Xiaoyu didn't answer, but it gave people a fantastic feeling. Everyone left with a smile.
Li Wu is really a tea god.
According to the records in Volume 40 of Sichuan Tongzhi compiled in Qing Dynasty, Wu Lizhen, the founder of Kanluoji in Simon Mountain, Mingshan County in Han Dynasty, once toured the residents and planted tea.
The Ganlu Stone House is said to be the residence of Master Wu Lizhen.
Wu Lizhen, the founder of Mongolian tea in Han Dynasty, planted seven "Lingming" tea trees in the Lotus Heart of Mengding Mountain. From the Tang Dynasty, tribute tea was picked here, and it was not until 13 that Song Kao Zong Xichun officially named it "Royal Tea Garden".
Baizhangguan is the only way for Ya 'an to reach Chengdu. Since ancient times, there has been a saying that "whoever gets a hundred zhangs will get Chengdu".
The Battle of Baizhangguan was an important battle between the Red Fourth Front Army and the Kuomintang Sichuan Army in 1935. The scale of the battle is large, the number of participants is large, the duration is long, and the battle is difficult, tragic and tragic. This is a great battle in the history of the Red Army's Long March, second only to the bloody battle of Xiangjiang River.
1985, the local government built the Red Army Baizhangguan Campaign Memorial Hall on Mengding Mountain.
After passing through the memorial hall of Baizhangguan Campaign of the Red Army, the mountain people and tourists who burn incense and worship Buddha gradually became scarce.
Mountain roads are particularly slippery in rainy days. @ Radish Boy, who walks without looking at the road, lies on the ground before stepping on the wet moss in Mengshan Xiuse archway.
Who hasn't fallen in one's life? What is a fall? Get up and keep walking.
Fairy pool, according to legend, is named after the immortals in Fuxi era often bathe here.
Surrounded by green trees, Wang Yuanting, which stands on the cliff, is the end of Mengding Mountain. According to local people, when the weather is fine, you can watch the sunrise and sunset from here, and you can also see Ya 'an City, Wawu Mountain and Zhougong Mountain, which are 16 kilometers away.
We saw nothing today because of the rainy and foggy weather.
After returning from the Roy Pavilion, we chose the back hill with few tourists, few roads and long distance to surround the downhill route.
Tea god? God tea? Tea gods grow tea gods, and tea gods grow tea gods. They are all right anyway.
On both sides of the stone steps down the mountain, there are more than ten top-notch tea statues.
Mengshan Tea Road can be divided into two categories: Mengding Tea Art "Twelve Styles of Tianfeng" and Mengding Tea Art "Eighteen Styles of Longxing", which belong to the vigorous school and the elegant school respectively. The two factions are rigid and flexible, and one article and one martial art, which is the 13th style of "Long Xing Eighteen Styles".
In order to have enough food and clothing, we have walked all our lives; For health and longevity, we have been walking all our lives. Walking in the rain on Mengding Mountain is not interesting. We had a healthy and happy day.
In the farmhouse, we ate two dishes with the characteristics of Mengding Mountain, sesame stew and tea eggs.