Traditional hand-made tea techniques have been passed down in Qingquan Town for nearly 300 years. With the hard work of generations of tea makers and tea farmers, the Linglong Tea has been rated as a national GI agricultural product.

 

Before the competition, the opening ceremony of the China Railway Rural Revitalization Intangible Heritage Tea History Museum was held.

 

The museum is located in Jiangqiugui Handmade Tea Plantation, which is constructed by China Railway Group Limited. The museum displays 230 pieces of materials including deeds, trademarks, tax lists, photos, letters and other tea history materials and production tools.

 

 

The contestants were divided into five groups, and they each displayed their skillful techniques. The air was filled with the fragrance of tea.

 

“As a traditional skill, hand-made tea not only has a strong ornamental value, but also an effective inheritance of tea history and culture,” said Jiang Qiugui, an inheritor of intangible cultural heritage in Guidong County. She introduced that the hand-made tea requires skills, and the same tea leaves can be fried into handmade tea of different quality with different skills.

 

The referee team evaluated the tea in terms of leaf shape, soup color, aroma, taste and so on.

 

Livestreamers were busy selling the handmade tea. There are nearly 1,000 “new farmer livestreamers” in Guidong County now, which effectively help boost the sales of local agricultural products.

 

 

Since 2019, the handmade tea production competition has been held annually in Guidong County to showcase the charm of handmade tea, discover innovative, applied and skilled talents, and help the regional cooperation and tea industry development of Hunan-Jiangxi border areas.