Who is the earliest recorded tea farmer?

The earliest recorded tea grower is Wu Lizhen.

Wu Lizhen, a native of Flue in the Western Han Dynasty (a famous mountain area in Ya 'an, Sichuan Province), was a Taoist priest and presided over various temples in Mengding Mountain. Wu Lizhen is regarded as the earliest tea farmer with clear written records in China and even in the world, and is known as the tea ancestor and master of tea ceremony in Mengding Mountain.

In the 13th year of Xichun (1 186), Song Xiaozong named Wu Lizhen as "Master of Manlu Pratt & Whitney" and named the place where she planted Qixian tea as "Imperial Tea Garden". Therefore, Wu Lizhen is also known as the "Ganlu Master". In order to pick tea seeds, Wu Lizhen ran all over 38 Mengshan Mountains. He took the tea seeds home, mixed them with sand, put them in a basket, and covered them with straw, so that the tea seeds would not be moldy and cold.

In order to choose the place to sow tea seeds, Wu Lizhen climbed over the ridge of the top of the mountain to analyze the growing environment of wild tea trees. The conclusion is that the area between Mengding Wufeng (now Yellow Tea Garden) and Jiao Ling Bay is most suitable for tea tree growth.

There is abundant rainfall, thick soil and fog all the year round, which provides unique natural conditions for the growth of tea trees. The produced tea is extremely rich in substances, and the exquisite production technology makes Mengshan tea have unique quality.

Wu Li's real achievement.

In order to grow tea, Wu Lizhen put up a shed and built a house in the barren hills, dug wells to get water, reclaimed wasteland, planted tea seeds and managed the tea garden, and devoted all her body and mind. It is conceivable that Wu Lizhen dared to experience many hardships and failures for the world first.

Many things happen. Wu Lizhen watered the green and strong tea trees with diligence and wisdom. He succeeded. Wu Lizhen boiled tea into soup and gave it to her neighbors for the benefit of the world. Many people got rid of diseases, and many people stayed healthy. With the spirit of growing tea for the people, he wrote the earliest tea history of China people.

In 53 BC, Wu Lizhen discovered the medicinal function of wild tea in Mengding Mountain (now Ya 'an, Sichuan), so he transplanted and planted seven tea trees in a concave place between the five peaks of Mengding Mountain. According to the records of Mingshan County in Qing Dynasty, these seven kinds of tea trees "have not withered for two thousand years, and their tea leaves are thin and long, sweet and crisp in taste, yellow and blue in color, and they are not condensed in cups."

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Wu Lizhen