It has been a month since the Tea Festival, and the spring tea picking has also come to an end. However, Bashan Village, Fuchun Street, Fuyang District, where the "First Pot of Spring Tea in Greater Hangzhou" is located, today launched another "Bashan Peak Longjing Tea Handmade Frying" Competition".
In the traditional tea-frying competition, the contestants are all tea-frying masters who have been selected through layers of selections to "show off". However, among the 30 contestants participating today, not to mention that they have never participated in the selection, many of them have never touched it before. It was my first time to try hand-made tea after using an electric wok.
What is the purpose of such a tea-making competition? Zhang Peiren, Secretary of the Party Committee of Bashan Village, "made it clear in one word: inheritance."
During this year's Tea Festival, five "Golden Tea Kings" from the village who have won good results in provincial and municipal competitions were awarded the title of "Inheritors of Longjing Tea Handmade Frying Techniques". In today's competition, in addition to serving as judges , and even more so, the villagers in the village who are interested in learning to fry tea should learn from their teachers.
Early in the morning, in the lobby on the first floor of Bashan Village Committee, 30 electric woks were lined up in a U-shape. The contestants looked serious and kept flying their hands between the woks and tea leaves. Although most of them are competing for the first time, they have been dealing with tea for many years, and their movements and gestures seem to be quite standard.
, is ours I'm an old friend. Although he is a "second-generation salesman" in Bashan tea distribution and is an expert in tea sales, the hand-fried tea competition is his "debut". "Learn to fry tea, and you will have more stories to tell when selling tea in the future."
Among the 30 contestants, two female contestants were particularly eye-catching.
"I am a complete novice, and it is my first time to use an electric wok today." Xu Chen, born in the 1980s, is a senior tea master and wants to learn how to make tea from the source. She got up at 4:30 in the morning and came from Hangzhou, where she works, to compete.
"My grandma used to stir-fry the tea leaves by hand. I've seen them since I was a kid, and I know a little bit about hand gestures, but most girls love beauty and are afraid of the high temperature of the electric wok." Xu Chen said that the first pot of tea stir-fried was really good. I didn’t feel it. After the masters taught me a few moves, the shape of the second pot of tea was much better. Now on the third pot, it doesn’t feel hot anymore, which gives me a sense of accomplishment. "
Wang Xingjuan also just started to learn how to fry tea by hand. "Last year I participated in the training organized by the District Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau. Although I use machines to fry tea at home, I still want to learn how to fry tea by hand and know more about what kind of tea is used. It's good tea. ”
This was less like a competition and more like a tea-frying competition to compare skills. In the end, awards were awarded.
Wang Jian, Gao Xiaoping, and Chen Fangmu won the top three, while Tu Weifeng, Zhang Shuiming, Wu Tianren, Shentu Changlu, and Wang Xingjuan won Winning Award. The leaders of the Fuchun Street Federation of Trade Unions also presented them with award certificates.
"The levels vary, and we hope to cultivate some rising stars through similar 'newcomer competitions' and pass on the skills of tea frying." "Gao Guoxing, one of the judges of the tea-frying competition and Bashan Village, who just won the title of "Zhejiang Longjing Tea Master" in April, said.
