As a museum with the theme of displaying tea culture, the Tea Museum is located in Shuangfeng, the origin of Longjing tea in West Lake, Hangzhou, thus designing six relatively independent and interrelated exhibition spaces, namely, tea history, tea extraction, tea affairs, tea margin, tea set and tea custom, and interpreting tea culture from different angles, which has played a very good display effect.
Building 1 is an exhibition building with 5 exhibition halls. The Tea History Hall introduces the history of tea production and tea culture in China, the Tea Extraction Hall displays the samples of famous tea from China and foreign countries, the Tea Set Hall shows the evolution and development of tea sets in various historical periods in China, the Tea Affairs Hall introduces the scientific knowledge of planting, making and tasting tea, and the Tea Custom Hall introduces the tea drinking methods and etiquette in Yunnan, Sichuan, Tibet, Fujian, Guangdong and the Ming and Qing Dynasties, reflecting the colorful tea culture in China.
Building 2 is used for reception of foreign guests and academic exchanges.
There are six tea rooms with different styles in Building No.3, where visitors can taste the tea flavors of various tea departments.
In Building 4, visitors can enjoy tea ceremony and tea ceremony performances at all times and all over the world. The building in the museum has the characteristics of Jiangnan garden, and the winding rockery contrasts with the surrounding tea gardens, bringing visitors into the rich and colorful tea culture atmosphere. Tea is one of China's important contributions to human beings and world civilization. China is the origin of tea trees and the first country to discover and utilize tea. Tea industry and tea culture began with the drinking of tea. For thousands of years, tea culture has been enriched and developed in China's long history of national culture, and it has become a treasure of oriental traditional culture. Modern tea culture has enriched the world culture with its unique style.
Today, tea, as a worldwide beverage, maintains the deep feelings of people in China and other countries. Tea has been sung for thousands of years in the history of China since it was first discovered and utilized by Shennong. This old saying shows the indissoluble bond between tea and the people of China.
Tea people in past dynasties have made numerous explorations and attempts about tea affairs. Since the publication of Lu Yu's Tea Classic, tea affairs have become very popular.
Throughout the ages, the variety, preparation, utensils, storage, drinking and use of tea have their own techniques, ways and feelings. Walking into the museum, the first thing that brings people is shock: it has no walls. Generally, museums give people a solemn feeling, and there is a vast shelf of classic culture. However, the tea museum has completely opened fences and fences, and only in areas that need to be blocked, barbed plants are densely planted, which is both transparent and effective, creating an ecological museum without walls, which is "the museum is in the tea room and the tea is in the museum". It seems to tell people that we have no threshold and we welcome every guest.
The museum without walls is a leisure scenic spot with a very pure tea culture atmosphere, which shows the humanistic theme and charm of tea culture everywhere, and attracts the vast number of tea culture lovers and Chinese and foreign tourists with the unique garden art with Jiangnan flavor and profound tea culture special exhibition.
At the foot of the road, suddenly took all the line of sight. The pavement paved with natural stone is unexpectedly inlaid with the word 100 or another name of "tea" (such as "Cha", "Cha", "Tea" and "Ming") from steles, rubbings, famous posts, celebrity calligraphy, paintings, ceramic inscriptions and cliff stone carvings in the past dynasties, or flowing freely or vigorous.
Unconsciously, I walked through this tea ceremony named "Double Fragrance Path" and came to the northwest corner of the Tea Expo. A water system with tea rhyme across the Tea Expo became the landscape axis of the Tea Expo tour, which just showed the theme of "water is the mother of tea" and showed the blending relationship between "tea" and "water". The water system takes advantage of the mountain, introduces the living water of Qiantang River, runs from the northwest corner of Chabo to the southeast corner, and joins with the mountain stream outside the pavilion, and revetments with natural big rocks washed by natural waterfalls for many years, and lays a layer of pebbles on the bottom of the stream, and adopts the treatment methods of deep pool water storage, layered dam building, springs, mountain streams, streams and beaches to make the water flow step by step, just like nine streams and eighteen streams, forming a water overlapping effect. Down the river, there are characteristic tea houses and outdoor tea tasting areas on both sides of the water system. Out of the southeast, you come to the exhibition building, the essence of tea culture. There is a long history of Chinese tea culture here, and the waterscape gradually ends here. The whole tour route is not only smooth and continuous, but also profound.
Entering the preface hall of the exhibition building, I was immediately attracted by the gurgling sound of water, only to see a water curtain slowly descending from a height of ten meters, and a tide of spring water infiltrated a huge green word "tea", which was particularly clear and eye-catching. It was really "pure tea, which was made by borrowing water, and there was no water." Under the water curtain, the rockery bonsai is lush. This dynamic and static design symbolizes the long history of Chinese tea culture, explains the affinity between tea and water, nature and people, and highlights the theme of the exhibition.
The cultural display of the Tea Museum is attractive, and this is the essence of the museum. The whole exhibition is divided into six parts: tea history, tea extraction, tea affairs, tea sets, tea customs and tea margins, which show the infinite charm of tea culture in a multi-faceted, multi-level and three-dimensional way.
Wandering in the exhibition hall, what makes the audience linger most is the colorful reappearance of local tea customs. A vivid scene tells the daily life of people of all ethnic groups drinking and loving tea. Tibetan butter tea, the audience can personally make; Under the simulated big tea tree, the "bamboo stove soup is boiling at the beginning of red" is the roasted tea of the Dai family in Yunnan; The seven-star kitchen of the tea stall set up by Linjiang is flourishing, rising up the stairs and looking at the beginning of Wushan; Looking back at the "tea" fluttering in the wind in front of Huizhou merchants' tea houses in the setting sun, it is like going back to the era of the late 19th century and the early 20th century. On one side of the tea house, the Kung Fu tea ceremony in Fujian is being staged, and the solemn and elegant tea lady is brewing a pot of Tieguanyin for you, and the people who stop to watch it have already become the scenery in the eyes of others.
From wild big tea tree slices in virgin forest to various cultivated tea tree specimens; From the simple drinking utensils in Liangzhu period to the exquisite court tea sets in Ming and Qing dynasties; From the fossil of tea seeds to the tea custom scene with strong national style, precious cultural relics, supplemented by carefully designed words, pictures and charts, well-made models, lifelike statues and elegant and moving music have interpreted the process of civilization for thousands of years.
There are many unique ideas in the exhibition of the Tea Expo Museum. It strives to increase the intuition and improve the perceptual knowledge of the audience, and changes the rule that traditional museums are only allowed to see and not to do anything, so as to provide the audience with opportunities to participate as much as possible and improve the audience's interest in visiting.
Some exhibition halls have open exhibition areas. More than 300 tea samples, such as green tea, black tea, oolong tea, white tea, yellow tea, black tea and reprocessed tea, are displayed in the tea extraction hall, which are placed on the cylindrical tea tree-shaped countertop in different categories and equipped with corresponding buttons. As long as the audience puts on headphones and clicks the button next to the specimen, there will be a beautiful voice to introduce the relevant tea knowledge. At the same time, there are various kinds of pressed teas on display in the open area, such as Jingua tea, bamboo shoot shell tea, Qizi cake tea, square brick tea, Fuzhuan brick tea, etc. The small diameter is only one or two centimeters, and the large diameter is actually more than one meter. As long as the audience is interested, they can touch it with their hands and even feel its fragrance with their sense of smell.
In the teahouse, the open display once again gives the audience a chance to feel all the tea, from the seeds, branches and fruits of tea trees; From a leaf to a delicious tea drink ... Just turn the turntable, and you will know the appropriate brewing time, tea dosage and the ratio of tea to water at a glance. The "Three Boiling Diagram" vividly illustrates the "Three Boiling" theory of "fish eyes, crab eyes, billowing waves" put forward by Cha Sheng Lu Yu in the Book of Tea.
The use of multimedia makes the limited display infinitely extended. The whole exhibition * * * has set up five multimedia touch screens, which organically string together social politics, economy, music, poetry, painting, dance, religion and other elements related to tea culture, and put them into computer programs. As long as you gently touch your hand, a large amount of tea culture information will come in. The multimedia system with prize-winning quiz is more attractive to the audience. Click the mouse and you can get a joy of knowledge acquisition.
In the Tea Museum, you can not only enjoy the professional tea culture display, but also deepen and broaden your knowledge in the field of vision and feel the strong cultural atmosphere. Park-like museums have carefully handled the arrangement of surrounding plants, spared no effort to highlight the theme by using the characteristic arrangement of plants, and continuously extended the tea culture to the surrounding environment. There are different varieties of camellia belonging to Theaceae plants, which can be compared with tea trees. There are ornamental plants that can be used for soaking and drinking, such as Gynostemma pentaphyllum, Zanzibar, Ilex macrophylla, June cream, Lycium barbarum, Acer ginnala, mint, jasmine, Houttuynia cordata, wild hawthorn, rose, osmanthus fragrans, honeysuckle and chrysanthemum morifolium. It not only increases the popularity and interest of science, but also creates a characteristic plant landscape. At the same time, it is hierarchical in configuration and has the characteristics of tea culture. Wandering in the museum, inadvertently looking at it, it is an ecological park with no traces of man-made, but carefully observing, every bridge and every pool has a poetic name, which contains vivid cultural stories. Even the grass and trees have names and cultural charm.
Tea Expo also has a unique and open tea tree variety resource garden-Jiamuyuan, which is a vivid thematic tea tree garden, showing more than 100 varieties of tea trees. There are obvious differences among many varieties. In addition to the common shrub-type tea trees, we can also see tree-type tea trees, such as Wuniuzao, Huangyezao, Cinnamomum cassia, Eriocheir sinensis, Yunnan Daye and so on. The resource garden also set up signs to explain the origin, names and suitable teas of various tea varieties, creating a lively outdoor exhibition area. Baked incense sticks, located under Jiamuyuan, also perform tea frying to the audience during the tea picking season, showing the skills of tea frying and the important processes of tea processing, and deepening visitors' understanding of the tea making process, which is a vivid supplement to the exhibition hall.
Careful plant arrangement and variety garden have greatly enriched the connotation of tea culture, and successfully liberated tea culture from a single visual display, extending to the surrounding environment, forming a considerable, tangible and sensible new experience. The environmental sketches of the Tea Museum also attract people's attention. More than 300 columns with different shapes and exquisite carvings are placed under the columns of the glass corridor, or used as environmental decoration, or for tourists to rest. The different rocks, sizes and shapes of column foundations show that they have different life experiences and contain rich information about humanities and ancient architectural art. In the museum, you can always see many tourists wowing at the pillars on both sides of the road. Although these exquisite stone piers have experienced long-standing wind and rain erosion, they are still discernible, and there are stone carvings with auspicious meanings on all sides, which are rich in meaning and vivid in style. With the participation of these pillars, the cultural atmosphere of the Tea Expo is more intense. It is a place where tea culture spreads and leaves are scattered, and it is also a dazzling collection of stone carving art.
Cha Sheng Lu Yu's sage-like style makes people stop, overlooking the mountains of Lu Yu, inspiring people's memory of the sages. The statue of Lu Yu in Chabo is made of bronze, about 2.5 meters high, and is equipped with a low tea table, on which tea stoves, teacups and other tea tasting utensils are placed. Lu Yu is standing by, with a tea bowl in his left hand and a tea book in his right hand, enjoying the lingering fragrance of tea between his lips and teeth, with a poised and vivid momentum. The watch and sundial placed near Jiqingtai also attracted people's special attention. Although it is set for sketches, it can actually be used. Both the standard watch and the sundial belong to the oldest astronomical instruments in China, which take the sun as the observation target and determine the time according to the length of the sun shadow.
The solar terms are determined and dated according to the change of the shadow length at noon. It consists of two parts: Guihe and Biao. The base of the watch is decorated with "Twelve Tea Sets for the Old Man in Shen 'an in Song Dynasty" and "Twenty-four Solar Terms Songs" respectively.
The sundial uses the change of the direction of the shadow of a day to determine the time. It consists of two parts: the dial and the needle. On one side of the sundial, it is decorated with "advancing with each passing day" and on the other side, it is decorated with "an inch of time and an inch of gold, and an inch of gold cannot buy an inch of time". The time referred to in the sundial is the local actual solar time, that is, apparent solar time, which has an unequal time difference from the commonly used Beijing time.
Guibiao and sundial are very helpful to agricultural production in ancient China, and tea production is also a part of agricultural culture. It is necessary to use Guibiao and sundial to determine the solar terms and time of tea picking, which reflects the seasonal requirements of tea. The setting of the standard table and sundial not only helps people to know more astronomical knowledge, but also can measure the time and solar terms by themselves according to the prompts. At the same time, tea activities are embodied in a complete farming culture, showing the close relationship between tea culture and farming culture.
With a relaxed and pleasant leisure mood, I watched the taste in the tea museum. When I was tired, I randomly chose a place to sit down, deeply breathed the sweet smell of osmanthus in the air, and I was thirsty. I chose a place where there was water and birds singing, ordered a pot of tea, tasted it carefully, and slowly let the tea smell fill my lips and teeth, and then I tasted a kind of leisure and a different kind of elegance.
This kind of elegance will be remembered, half of which lies in the style of tea and half in the humanities. Walking into this Longjing tea town, I tasted another West Lake smoke and moon flavor, which is just like the tea in the cup. Although it is thick, it also lasts for a long time.