Huqiu Park is located in the northwest of Suzhou ancient city, on Huqiu Mountain. Huqiu Mountain was called Haiyong Mountain in ancient times, also known as Haiyong Peak. Legend has it that ancient Suzhou was a sea of Wang Yang, and Huqiu Mountain was an island that gushed out of the sea. Later, when the sea turned into fertile land, it turned into hills.
The mountain is 34.3 meters high. Outside the main entrance of Huqiu Mountain Temple in Huqiu Park, there is a wall across the river, and there are four big characters on the wall, which shows the origin relationship between Huqiu Mountain and the sea.
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Tiger Hill Cuisine: Tiger Hill Tea. Huqiu tea is a small tea garden centered on temple gardens. The tea garden is located near Tiger Hill to the west of Tiger Emperor, not far from Jianchi. It is modified from wild tea, and the garden is very small. The tea garden is managed by monks in Huqiu Temple.
A historic change of Huqiu tea took place in the fourth year of Ming Dynasty (1624). At that time, Huqiu Tea Garden was managed by monks of Huqiu Temple and produced by the temple. This year, a central official visited Suzhou. He has long heard the name of Tiger Hill Tea, and I like drinking tea, too.
So, taking advantage of his position, he invited the monks of Huqiu Temple to offer tea. Because more than one person in Suzhou asked the monk for tea, temples used to drink it by themselves. There were only dozens of tea trees and the tea collected was limited, so there was no tea to offer for a long time. The central government did not believe it, and sent people to arrest the abbot monk, forced him to ask for tea, and ordered the old monk to be tortured to ask for tea.
But if you don't have it, you can't do it. The official had no choice but to put back the old monk who was covered in scars. The old monk was carried back to the temple, and all the monks in the temple were indignant! The old monk was heartbroken and asked the young monk to dig out the roots of the tea tree.
Wen, a scholar in Qing Dynasty, once wrote a plane article entitled "On Shaving Tea", which is an fable. Since then, there is not much tea left in Huqiu. The Huqiu tea that Gu Mei and Chen Jian saw in the Qing Dynasty may be the embers after the robbery.
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