Wulong District of Chongqing is located in the southeast of Chongqing, where Wuling Mountain Range and Dalou Mountain Range extend vertically and horizontally. "Seven mountains, one water and two fields" is a true portrayal here, and traditional agriculture has been difficult to make a difference here.

Since it is a "seven-point mountain", it is better to rely on the mountain to eat the mountain. There are few mountains and the foundation for developing agriculture is weak, but Wulong is rich in ecological resources, and the "Xianhong" tea bred in baimashan is one of the treasures.

Palace tea garden. Photo courtesy of Wulong Travel Company

"Gongcha Xianhong" is a godsend landscape that breeds good camellia.

Baimashan has a long history of producing tea, which became "tribute tea" in the Western Zhou Dynasty. According to historical records, Mao Wenxi, a man of the Five Dynasties in the late Tang Dynasty, once described it in the Book of Tea. In the past, there were three kinds of tea in Fuzhou, namely Huabin tea, Baima tea and Fuling tea, which were regarded as good products and tribute tea. It can be seen that Baima tea became famous in the Tang Dynasty.

Today, Huabin tea has disappeared, and the planting area of Baima Tianchi tea is nearly 5000 mu. "Xianhong" series of organic black tea has won the gold medal in domestic tea fairs for many times and exported to Southeast Asia, Europe and America.

The unique natural landscape endows baimashan "Xianhong" tea with unique quality. Baimashan Tianchi Tea Area is at an altitude of1300m, located in T-shaped microclimate area of Wulong, Chongqing. The mountain stands steeply above the Wujiang River, almost vertically. The Wujiang warm current goes straight to the cliff top, and the heat is not reduced, alternating with the cold current at the cliff top. Frequent sudden temperature difference makes the tea produced here richer in contents and presents a unique aroma.

Fairy red is rich in amino acids, vitamins, minerals and other nutrients, and contains theanine, theaflavins, thearubigins, theophylline, tea polyphenols and other unique functional components of black tea. Among them, theaflavin content reached 0.8%, thearubigins content reached 6.5%, and the tea soup was sweet, red in color and long in aftertaste. It has successively won the national organic food certification, Chongqing Three Gorges Cup Black Tea Gold Award, the second International Tea Expo "Tasting Tea" and Chongqing Foreign Affairs Gift.

At present, there are 5,000 mu of modern tea gardens in baimashan, forming large-scale production and processing. From April 2065438 to April 2007, Chongqing Chiming Agriculture Co., Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary established by Chongqing Wulong Tourism Co., Ltd., a wholly state-owned enterprise with independent legal personality, appeared, which marked that baimashan "Xianhong" tea embarked on the broad road of brand development. The brand of "Xianhong" tea with great product strength has already started, but the vision of Wulong people does not stop there.

Tea picking in the palace tea garden. Photo courtesy of Wulong Travel Company

"Dislocation Expansion" and a New Approach to the Integration of Agriculture and Tourism

Since 1993 discovered Furong Cave, successive governments of Wulong have been unswervingly developing the tourism industry, making Wulong a beautiful business card that can represent Chongqing tourism. Fairy mountain Prairie, Tiansheng Third Bridge, Longshuixia Ground Fissure, Furong River and Impression Wulong are well-known at home and abroad. However, with the continuous development of domestic and international tourism markets, Wulong's tourism market will further change.

"Deeply cultivate Xianshan and expand baimashan by dislocation." The government of Wulong District Committee has drawn a new blueprint for the next decade. Baimashan Tourism Resort came into being, with Wulong Central City in the east, Daozhen County in Guizhou Province in the south, Nanchuan District in the west and Wujiang River in the north, facing fairy mountain National Tourism Resort and fairy mountain National Forest Park across the Wujiang River. Develop healthy resorts with tea culture and love culture as the theme.

At the beginning of the planning, baimashan Tourism Resort came up with a new road of "tourism+tea culture experience". Integrate tea resources, enhance tea landscape, develop tea products, deduce tea culture and extend the industrial chain of Wulong tourism industry.

Qintai Chaliao. Photo courtesy of Wulong Travel Company

Taking Tianchiping as the core, the scenic spots such as Palace Tea Garden, Modern Sightseeing Tea Garden, Crystal Tea Factory and Qintai Tea Room in the resort are connected in series to form a pearl, which integrates tea raw material resources to the maximum extent, provides a strong guarantee for tea products, and also brings different tourism experiences to tourists.

Qintai Chaliao is a landmark building in the scenic spot, and it is also the core and spiritual highland of tea culture. It is about 90 meters long and 60 meters wide, and you can have a bird's eye view of Chashan. There are also tea art, cha de, tea ceremony, tea theory, tea feeling, tea theory, tea ceremony explanation and tea performance, which can provide tourists with leisure tea and experience tea culture after sightseeing.

"Xianhong" tea. Photo courtesy of Wulong Travel Company

Crystal tea factory covers an area of 1.375 square meters, with a building area of 24 1.2 square meters. Equipped with two automatic tea production lines and manual tea making equipment. Integrating base construction, tea processing, sales and research and development, we have developed 10 kinds of organic black tea with the brand of "Fairy Black Tea". The product has passed the certification of the national organic tea certification body, and the market price of the best black tea has been sold to 30,000 yuan/kg.

As one of the resort chains, the tea industry here is undergoing transformation and upgrading, and the scenic spots are also advancing in an orderly manner. According to the relevant person in charge of the resort, in the future, baimashan Tourism Resort will continue to rely on the advantages of existing tourism resources and tea industry, and realize the trinity of tea industry, tea products and tea culture tourism on the basis of the integrated development of primary, secondary and tertiary industries, and establish a three-level coordinated development mechanism of government guidance, enterprise innovation and farmers' participation, so as to achieve a good situation of upgrading scenic spots, increasing enterprise efficiency and increasing people's income.

"Xianhong" original tea. Photo courtesy of Wulong Travel Company