Tea picking season is before tomorrow. Remember to visit Mengding Mountain several times.
The first time I came to Mengding Mountain was a long time ago, in 2005. The second trip to Mengding Mountain was on 2013; It has been five years since I came to Mengding Mountain again.
At that time, at the foot of the mountain, the local flavor was exciting-
Chashan was quite perfect at that time, full of green-
At that time, the mountain road, carrying goods and building materials into the mountain of migrant workers, is quite lucky-
At that time, Mengding Mountain was full of vitality. It's really "Wan Muchun in front of the sick tree"—
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Mengding Mountain Scenic Area is the birthplace of world tea civilization and world tea culture. Because the altitude, soil and climate of Mengding Mountain are most suitable for the growth of tea, Wu Lizhen, the founder of Mengding Mountain Tea, began to domesticate and plant wild tea trees in Mengding Mountain as early as the Western Han Dynasty more than 2,000 years ago, and began the history of artificial tea making.
The road up the mountain was so well built that we forgot what it was like to go up the mountain. However, the big teapot still stands high on the hill.
Over 60 years old, tickets are half price in 30 yuan; Cable car on the mountain 15 yuan (I wanted to climb the mountain as before, but I'd better be careful). On the cable car, you can see a ridge of tea trees planted on the hillside. It's August now, and the picking season has passed. Tea farmers are rarely seen in tea gardens.
But not last time. Tea farmers are very busy before tomorrow.
Although the legs and feet are not good enough, take the cable car up the mountain and down the mountain, but the order of recording can also start from taking the uphill line:
In the folk, Mengshan tea has always been regarded as a wonderful thing to get rid of diseases. Therefore, Mengding tea with a long history is called "fairy tea" and Mengding Mountain is called "hometown of fairy tea".
I remember the last time I was picking spring tea, the farmhouse provided a project to experience tea picking.
It seems that on a weekend, I drove for two hours to Mengding Mountain, a famous mountain in Ya 'an. I also heard on TV that I can experience tea picking, which I haven't been to for many years. The weather was fine and the family went there with great interest.
Castle peak is full of tea. If you eat in any farmhouse, you can pick tea in the tea garden for free, and the farmhouse can also help you make it.
This is an experience. I put the tips of picked tender tea leaves in a pot to cool by hand (I have seen tea farmers in Mengding Mountain and tea masters in Hangzhou West Lake making tea), and brew them with 70-degree boiling water. It is not bad to take a sip. Although it is not "water in the Yangtze River", it is really "tea on Mengding Mountain". This is another story.
The road up the mountain (we are "happy" to go down the mountain at this time, in fact, it is really not easy to go down the mountain, and our feet are so soft ...) is steep and the stone steps are uneven.
This is indeed the way up the mountain last time.
There is a temple along the mountain. However, these temples have been declining for many years after the earthquake.
Last time I was here, this temple was not like this. Kanroji incense is strong and peony flowers are in full bloom:
The mountain road is faint, covered with moss and Ye Qingqing, and passers-by are not buzzing.
All the way up, you can see the panoramic view of Mengding Mountain. If you meet in summer and autumn, you can see the sea of clouds below.
Everyone feels very comfortable when they rest. According to the measurement, the content of negative oxygen ions in Mengding Mountain reaches 6.5438+0.2 million /cn3 all the year round, which is the best place for outdoor mountaineering, leisure and health preservation.
The height of the cable car station on the mountain is the main temple of Mengding Mountain-Tiangai Temple.
In people's impression, temples are manifestations of Buddhist culture, mostly Buddha statues, but Tiangai Temple, the largest temple in Mengding Mountain, is the tea ancestor Wu Lizhen of Mengding Mountain. Tiangai Temple is said to be the place where Wu Lizhen planted tea when building a house. It was built in the Three Kingdoms period and was later destroyed by the war. In the Southern Song Dynasty, the Buddhist in Xichun rebuilt this temple, and it was repaired many times in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
According to Sichuan Tongzhi, "the temple in the city is only ancient". The name of Tiangai Temple comes from the legend in Goddess of Mending Heaven. It is said that Nu Wa tried to mend the sky by refining stones. At the top of Mengding Mountain, the vitality is exhausted and melts in the soil, leaving a funnel, and dew often drops. Therefore, there is a saying that "the rain leaks in Shu Tian, and the center is covered with mountains". Building a temple here means "covering the sky". The existing temples are old objects of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and the main hall-Tea Temple has a full-length portrait of Master Wu Lizhen.
Respectable incense worships God in the temple, and you can have a rest with tea and watch the towering ancient tree Ginkgo biloba.
Tiangai Temple is surrounded by 10 thousand ginkgo trees, which cover the sky and the sun. It is said that these ginkgo trees were planted by Wu Lizhen herself, which has been more than two thousand years since.
There are also tea performances in this place:
Beyond the point, there is also a Yongxing Temple at an altitude of 1000m on the hillside to the west of Mengding. The temple is surrounded by mountains and water, with a building area of 5000 square meters. There are stone carvings at the entrance of the mountain, winding around Kowloon, carving through the "Yongxing Ancient Temple" and a pair of Kirin reliefs. There are three stone buildings in Daxiong Hall, with double eaves and a width of12m. Columns, beams, walls and buildings are all stone structures with dignified momentum. Around the temple, there are more than ten stone carvings such as Huang Yungu's poems, letters and couplets. There are seven-heart tea, red magnolia and other precious flowers and trees in the temple. One kind of rhododendron was planted in Ming Dynasty and bloomed in late spring and early summer.
Go up the mountain through the temple (of course, the side where the cable car arrives is generally not the top of the mountain), you can reach the height of the roof of the Hall of Great Heroes and see the forest of steles. Gong Jiaziqiu, a middle school student, wrote that "Yang Zijiang reclaimed water, and Mengshan topped it with tea".
Behind the stele gallery, there is a Millennium tea tree king. According to experts, this tree is over 1000 years old. This is a wild shrub-type ancient tea tree, 3.5 meters high and 2.54 meters wide. Its trunk diameter from the ground is 13 cm, its leaf length is 17 cm, its leaf width is 7.3 cm, its veins are 8 10 pairs, and there are 9 * * * plants, belonging to the big-leaf tea tree.
There is a stone screen in front of the memorial archway of Yin and Yang Master. Both the archway and the screen were built in the next two years (1622). The unicorn relief on the screen, the sky above the head and the sea rolling, is a great spectacle of Mengding Mountain. The archway is a three-door layout. Because the double lion ball relief above the right door of the archway is dry all the year round, while the double phoenix sunrise relief above the left door and the auspicious dragon and phoenix relief above the middle door are wet all the year round, it is called "Yin and Yang Stone Archway". The banners on the front of the archway are "learn from the west", "a gourd ladle of dew" and "gathering dragons and dew", and the fonts are simple and vigorous. These three sentences combine the essence of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism.
On the back of the picture, the teacher of Yin and Yang imitated Yuan Tiangang in Tang Dynasty.
On both sides of the Shinto behind the archway are dragon reliefs built along the stone steps. These two dragons guard the Longquan ancient well here.
The ancient well, also known as Mengquan Well and Ganlu Well, is carved with two dragons playing with pearls on the stone fence. It is said that this is the place where Master Ganlu (Wu Lizhen) draws water when he grows tea. The county annals said, "There is a bucket of water in the well, which is covered with stones before the rain is full and the drought is dry. After drinking this well water, the brewed tea has a special fragrance. If it is uncovered without authorization, it must be sunny and it will rain soon. " This spring is named after Huiquan (the second spring in the world).
The Tang and Song Dynasties were the heyday of Mongolian camellia. Mengding tea has been listed as a tribute since the first year of Tianbao in Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty (724). As a special product of the emperor's sacrifice to the ancestors of heaven and earth, it has been passed down to the Qing Dynasty, and/kloc-0 has never stopped for more than 200 years. This special tea is collected from seven kinds of immortal teas planted by tea ancestor Wu Lizhen. In the Qing Dynasty, the five peaks in Mengding became forbidden areas, and the Seven Immortals Tea was surrounded by stone fences and became the "Royal Tea Garden", which has been preserved to this day.
The Royal Tea Garden is located between the five hills of the main peak in Mengding. Because the surrounding peaks are shaped like lotus flowers, the Imperial Tea Garden is located in the lotus heart and has become a "land of geomantic omen". Wu Lizhen, a master of nectar in Han Dynasty, planted seven "Lingming" plants here. The Tang and Song Dynasties were the heyday of Mengdingshan tea. In the first year of Tianbao in Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty (724), Mengdingshan tea was listed as a tribute, and 360 pieces of tea were collected on the Seven Immortals every year for the emperor to worship the heavens and ancestors, which was called Gong Zheng; The emperor enjoyed the tribute, which was collected between the five peaks; The tributes enjoyed by the princes and ministers gathered under the Five Peaks. Mengding tea "was a tribute every year from the Tang Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty", 1200 has never stopped for more than 200 years, which is unique in the history of China.
Wu Lizhen is known as the founder of Mengshan Tea. In the 13th year of Xichun (1 186), Song Xiaozong named Wu Lizhen as "Master of Manlu Pratt & Whitney" and named the place where he planted the Seven Immortals as "Imperial Tea Garden". The garden is surrounded by stone fences, with double stone doors on the front, stone carvings and couplets on both sides with "water in the heart of the Yangtze River and tea on the top of Mengshan Mountain", and the banner reads "Imperial Tea Garden".
The couplets of "Yangtze River water, Mengshan top tea" originated from a ditty "Mengshan top spring" written by Li Dezai in Yuan Dynasty, which said: "Mengshan top spring is early, and the Yangtze River water tastes high." The "river water" here refers to the spring located in Jinshan, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province, which is known as "the first spring in the world" in Zhang's "Jian Cha Ji". Later, in the process of circulation, "water in the middle of the river" was passed down as "water in the river".
The Imperial Tea Garden is the highest place in Mengding Mountain-Yunv Mountain. There are Mengcha Xiangu and Mannan Stone House on the top of the mountain. This nun is said to be Yu Yexian, the daughter of Qingyi River God. She came to Mengding Mountain and fell in love with Wu Lizhen. The river god was furious when he knew it, and resolutely disagreed with their love, and took various measures to break them up alive and take Yu Yexian away. Finally, Yu Yexian escaped from Heshen House and came to Mengding Mountain to become a peak, accompanied by Wu Lizhen.
The Ganlu Stone House is located in Ganlu Peak on the left side of the Imperial Tea Garden, also known as Mengding Stone Hall, Shimen, Shizhu, Shishi and Liang Shi. It is an all-stone structure building with double eaves and hills, covering an area of 12 square meters. Stone pillars, stone halls, stone arches and stone roofs have unique architectural styles. According to legend, this house was the resting place of Wu Lizhen when he planted tea in Mengding Mountain in Han Dynasty. In the 19th year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty, Yin Hong, a monk, built a stone chamber for mourning, and inscribed "Mengshan Scenic Spot" on the stone gate. On the left and right couplets, it is written that "sudden danger peaks show jade marks, and Peng Sheng's beautiful scenery is self-made".
From Tiangai Temple, you can take a cableway down the mountain, or you can go down the ladder to Yu Palace. This ladder is 1436, which is very steep. According to legend, after Dayu succeeded in controlling water, he led many people to climb Mengding Mountain to offer sacrifices. Therefore, Mengding Mountain has been known as "Gong Yu Mengshan" and "the first mountain where Chinese ancestors sacrificed to heaven" since ancient times.