Qixinguan District: Ten Thousand Acres of Tea Hills Compose the 'Tea Picking Melody' of Happiness

People's Daily - Guizhou Channel

Spring returns to the earth, grass sprouts and flies, which is the best time for picking tea.

On March 28th, the Chucun Village, Dudou Township, is already covered in lush green, with over 200 tea farmers carrying bamboo baskets and shuttling through the layered tea gardens, waving their nimble fingers and happily picking the tender green new buds.

This is the annual Picking Tea Festival of Chucun Town. On this day, tea pickers alike wore vibrant ethnic costumes, just like expressing gratitude to nature, with sincerity, they celebrated the gift of the Earth Mother in the most grand way.

'Three Doors and Three Roads, Outside the Mountain, Friends from Outside Come to Pick Tea, Picking Tea, Picking Tea…' Hardworking and intelligent tea grower Gao Hua first adapted their ethnic 'Hai Jiu Song' into 'Hai Cha Song', singing out the happiness and determination of the mountain children in the vast forest sea,

'A young tea bud and a young tea leaf are the best tea in a year, the picking time is about a month, we always come to the field at 5:30 am.' Five days ago, the Chudun Tea Garden's harvest, Lei Jianmei took the lead, on the first day, they picked 72, becoming a real 'Picking Tea King'.

Lei Jianmei is a tea picking expert, the tea garden has been producing tea for 5 years, she has never missed picking tea, through hard work she has honed a solid skill in picking tea, becoming a benchmark for villagers to learn from.

It's not about speed, it's about more people. Villager Wang Xiuju also brought her family of four to fight in the tea garden. 'It's about earning money in the tea garden, it's calculated by the number of kilograms, picking one kilogram of green tea earns 25 yuan, the more you pick, the more you earn, and we have more people, so we have the advantage' Wang Xiuju's tactics brought her a lot of benefits, the day before yesterday, her family picked over 20 kilograms and earned 600 plus yuan.

Mountains and tea gardens are green, people use tea to get rich.

A village, a tea garden, a group of tea farmers, Chudun Village uses the as a pen and tea as a quill, creating a 'ecological beauty, rich people' economic gallery in the slowly mountains. Being in the garden, the garden is in the village, happy days are held in the hands of the old people.

'This year the weather, sunshine and rain are all good, our green tea yield is expected to be 4,500 kilograms more than last year, and the tea quality is also better.' Wang Juying, the leading figure in Chudun Village, said these figures are real and concrete.

Chudun Village's success is achieved in the context of implementing the 'Green water and mountains are gold and silver mountains' new development concept. Facing high mountains, steep slopes, high altitude and traffic congestion, the new generation of Chudun people overcame every difficulty and every difficult problem, and broke through every difficult situation, turning the wisdom of relying on mountains for food and relying on water for food into a vivid image on green earth.

The Chudun Spirit is a heroic epic of making roads in mountains and building bridges over water, it is a tenacious journey to tackle difficult tasks and fight in tough battles.

The young tea leaves are thinly distributed to form a forest, the flowing river is constantly flowing. The Chudun Spirit is blooming across Chucun Town, taking Chundu White Tea as a model, rapidly rising in the tea industry across the whole town in the district's agricultural structure adjustment, currently, Chucun Town has developed a tea planting area of more than 10,000 mu.

'The tea industry covers 8 villages, with a planting area of more than 5,000 mu, producing about 20,000 kilograms of dry tea, with a value of more than 10 million.' Chucun Town Party Secretary and Mayor Zhang Bin's development ideas are clear and obvious – ecological livelihood, industrial livelihood benefits, and tea industry benefits livelihood.

A moment of spring rain and a new layer, before the spring equinox, tea trees across the mountains and plains have sprouted tender buds, a thousand miles of emerald green, a fragrant aroma came to the face. (Mou Hui Song Wen Ju)

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