Why is Wuyishan tea so famous?

Minnan people played an important role in the formation of oolong tea production technology. The Ming Dynasty perished and the Qing Dynasty entered the customs. Some adherents of the Ming Dynasty went to seclusion in the mountains, or cut their hair and lived in seclusion, and took negative actions against the Qing government. At that time, Wuyishan, with beautiful scenery and far away from the city, became a yearning destination for hermits and Buddhists. In addition, the mountain is rich in rock tea, and Buddhists participate in Zen with tea and produce tea; Hermits drink tea for leisure, and drink tea for recreation. Wuyi rock tea has become the main agricultural products and commodities in mountainous areas, and it is favored. "County Records" and "Mountain Records" contain: "Wuyishan is the habitat of feathers. At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, southern Fujian believers began to practice. Later generations included Yuhua, Qingyuan and Bishi temples, and Tianxin Yongle Temple had more than 0/00 Buddhists. " At that time, there were more than 50 temples and monasteries in 120 Lishan, almost all of which were temples, and most of the monks were from southern Fujian. "The main ones are Tongan Shichaoquan, Zhangpu, Shi, Tiehua's master, Longxi's monk disease, stone, Tao Huan and wisdom, Jinjiang's interest and enthusiasm, Quanzhou's purity, Zhangzhou's temperament and so on. Originally, "tea has a far-reaching relationship with temple Buddhism", especially Wuyi Mountain, because there is little farmland in the mountain. Monks mainly produce tea and live on tea; Read the scriptures and meditate, and solve problems with tea; Treat people at leisure and have tea. This kind of treasure naturally spread from monks to their hometown in southern Fujian, and soon attracted businessmen from southern Fujian to run rock tea. Most of Zhongshishan tea factories are owned by Minnan tea merchants, and the finished products are shipped to Minnan, Chaoshan and overseas for sale in Chaze. Therefore, Shi Chaoquan's "Anxi Tea Song" has a sentence "The recent Wuyi Zhang Ren system". Some people confuse the producer with the place of origin and production technology, which is probably a misunderstanding.

There is another way for Minnan people to enter Wuyishan to participate in the production and development of oolong tea. In the early years, Wuyi tea went north to "tea-horse exchange market", especially in the 22nd year of Qing Qianlong (1757), after the Qing government took Guangzhou as the only port for foreign trade, all Wuyi tea went through the water, went to Hekou Town, Yanshan County, Jiangxi Province (which was an important dock for water transportation at that time), and then was packaged or baked, and was transferred from Xinjiang to Poyang Lake and Jiangnan to Guangzhou by boat. Due to the maritime ban in Fujian during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, a large number of Fujian coastal farmers moved to Jiangxi Lead Mountain and Shangrao. According to the records of Qianshan County, its land (Qianshan County) is the place where Fujian people migrated. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties alone, Fujian immigrants built 523 new villages (note: only one village was built by immigrants), accounting for 87% of the 598 new villages built by foreigners, including many Minnans. "During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty (1736- 1795), there were as many as 48 tea shops in Hekou." "At that time, Hekou tea-making technology was high, and it had a certain position in the national tea shops. The main product of Wuyi tea, most tea-making workers in Chong 'an County, Fujian Province are employed by Hekou. "According to Shangrao County 1985 place name records, almost all the 35 communes and farms in the county are Fujian immigrants, and most of them are in the south adjacent to Qianshan County. Most of the immigrants are Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, Tingzhou, Quanzhou, Yongchun, Nan 'an and Putian. Some of them only marked "Sixia House" because they couldn't figure out the origin of the counties (note: there were four states in southern Fujian at that time). For example, in Dida Commune adjacent to Yanshan County, 29 of the 85 natural villages were built by Minnan immigrants; Of the 25 natural villages in Gao Quan Reclamation Area, 15 were built by Yongchun immigrants. Most of the above immigrants arrived in the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, later in the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty and earlier in the Orthodox period of the Ming Dynasty (1436- 1449). These "Xiafu people" immigrants have the same language as tea merchants and monks in southern Fujian, so they naturally give priority to employment, and some even are employed as Baotou and tea teachers in Wuyi. For a long time, people have settled in Wuyishan, so up to now, most of the villagers in Yancha Village, Tian Xin, Wuyi are descendants of southern Fujian. Minnan monks, tea merchants and local villagers have made contributions to the creation and development of Wuyi rock tea, which should be affirmed.

People who hold the view that oolong tea originated in southern Fujian believe that Minnan people first moved to Wuyishan, then moved to Qianshan and Shangrao County. This is related to the fact that in the early Ming Dynasty, before the formation of oolong tea technology, Minnan immigrants began to move in, and the number and living area of people who moved into Qianshan County and Shangrao County greatly exceeded that of Tianxin Yancha Village in Wuyishan. In addition, judging from the genealogy and oral records of villagers in Tian Xin today, it shows that the "Xiasifu people" first moved to Lead Mountain in Shangrao, Jiangxi, and then moved to Wuyishan.

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