China News Service, Datian, Fujian, October 5th. Title: Tea tourism is popular in Datian, Fujian, and the beauties on both sides of the Taiwan Strait have a fragrant tea.
Author Lei Chaoliang Luo Zhenhua
During the National Day holiday, Daxianfeng Tea Beauty Scenic Area, located in Datian County, Fujian Province, the "Hometown of China's Beauty Tea", ushered in a peak passenger flow. Thousands of acres of tea gardens, golden rice fields and ancient houses set off against each other, attracting many tourists to check in and take photos.
In the scenic area, the Beauty Tea Cultural Center is under construction. Tea merchant Li Pengchun introduced that the scenic spot relies on the ecological background of the high mountain tea garden to launch tea picking and making experience, tea-flavored beer barbecue, tea mountain B&B and other diversified products. It deeply integrates the autumn night atmosphere of the high mountain tea village with the leisure consumption scene, creating an autumn vacation plan for tourists to "stay and experience deeply".
On October 1, tourists experienced a bonfire party at Daxianfeng Tea Beauty Scenic Area. Photo by Su Jinduan
Datian Beauty Tea is of the same origin as Taiwan Oriental Beauty Tea. In the 1990s, Li Pengchun's father, Li Zhizhong, and Taiwanese businessman Peng Baofa became involved in tea. The two contracted a 2,400-acre tea garden in Pingshan Township, Datian County, and established the first Taiwan-funded tea enterprise. They introduced high-quality tea varieties such as Taiwan's Qingxin Dajie and Jinxuan, as well as a full set of tea-making equipment and techniques, allowing Taiwan's beauty tea skills to take root in Datian.
Today, Li Pengchun and Peng Baofa's son Peng Anyuan have renewed their relationship. The two have worked together to organize cross-strait tea-making training for many years. Many Taiwanese experts have been specially invited to use the "theory-practice-study" three-dimensional teaching method to continue to improve cross-strait tea-making skills.
"Traditional tea-making techniques require an understanding of the teacups of Generation Z." Peng Anyuan took the lead in introducing a "smart tea garden" management system in Daejeon, establishing a full traceability system; developing new products such as cold brew tea and liquid tea for young consumer groups; through tea-tourism integration, international exhibitions and other initiatives, Daejeon Beauty Tea is exported to Europe, Singapore, Malaysia and other regions.
On October 3, after drying, the Datian Beauty Tea appeared in bright and vivid colors of white, green, brown, red, and yellow. Photo by Lei Chaoliang
Su Qimian, a local tea farmer with 23 years of experience in tea making, studied under Zhang Qingquan, a famous Taiwanese tea making master. He believes that the unique taste of Cross-Strait Beauty Tea comes from the fact that when the tea tree buds and leaves are bitten and sucked by small green leafhoppers, they secrete a hydrolytic enzyme, which in turn emits a fragrant aroma. The cicada tea is unique and natural. Su Qimian knows this very well. The "Oriental Beauty Tea" he created once won the "Beauty Tea·Tea King" award in the Cross-Strait Tea King Competition.
Based on the advantages of the beauty tea industry, he took the lead in establishing the Oriental Beauty Tea Professional Cooperative. Through collaboration between Fujian and Taiwan, he built a centralized processing zone and shared factories and other platforms. He innovatively launched four cooperation models: "standardized tea green procurement, classified mao tea processing and sales, low-cost sharing of processing resources, and professional roasting and blending to improve quality", effectively driving the large-scale development of the village-level tea industry.
Zheng Liting, deputy director of the Datian County Tea Industry Development Promotion Center, said that the local tea-making skills competition and folk tea competition between Fujian and Taiwan have allowed tea drinkers from both sides of the Taiwan Strait to compete on the same stage, promoted the iterative upgrade of tea-making technology, and deepened grassroots non-governmental exchanges between Fujian and Taiwan.
Relying on the in-depth cooperation between Fujian and Taiwan, Datian County draws on Taiwan's exquisite agricultural concepts to create a characteristic terraced ecological tea garden, forming a unique ecological landscape of "wearing a hat on the head, a belt around the waist, and wearing shoes on the feet". It continues to enrich the beauty tea industry format, and gradually builds a tea tourism integrated development pattern covering tea culture experience, health and wellness travel, study practice, tea and food consumption and other formats.
Today, the annual output of Datian Beauty Tea reaches 4,300 tons, accounting for 70% of the country's share, driving 100,000 practitioners to increase their income and become rich. Beauty Tea has become a pillar industry in the revitalization of Datian's countryside.
