|
TenFu's Tea Museum is an amusement park dedicated
entirely to tea. Located deep in the region of China where Oolong is grown,
hours from the nearest airport. Yet thousands of tourists have made the
journey since it opened a year ago. The museum has an enormous teapot fountain
next to its main building where the many steps in creating top-grade tea are
exhibited. Employees in period costumes demonstrate ceremonial rituals for
preparing and serving tea. Tea consumption is up in China, with new tea houses
catering to young and old with tapioca bubble drinks and the traditional brews.
TEA HISTORY, TEA
EVENT AND TEA CULTURE
"Tea tree is among the best trees in south China". Ever since the
discovery of wild tea trees, people have used for treatment, as a kind of food
and drink. Nowadays people are using tea in more diversified ways. As for the
production of tea, modernized assembly lines have taken the place of mechanical
operation and ancient handwork. The beauty of tea culture has been greatly
enhanced by new innovations in tea production.
Visiting the
TenFu tea Museum means reading the history of Chinese tea.
Tea has been used by Chinese for than three thousand years
according to proven records. Throughout this period, tea lovers cover a wide
range from emperors and high officers to common citizens. The officers,
scholars, monks, Taoist priests, calligraphers, painters and poets of all
dynasties were crazy about tea. They drank tea while practicing Taoism and
Buddhism, while making friend, they made tea as theme of poems, articles, books
and paintings from which they derived the Chinese tea culture which has been
prosperous from dynasty to dynasty, with its contents so abundant that the
descendents are extremely blessed to enjoy all of them.
| |
|
PASS ON THE
FUTURE |
|
Seeing that the calf is able to shoulder
heavy loads, the ox turns its head satisfactorily as if giving the
last advice before retirement. At the same time, the man looking
after the ox, smiling, is handing his whip over his son, hoping the
latter will do a better job. It pictures two closely related events
in the development of tea industry meaning that the tea culture is
entering a brand new stage. The words "pass on the tea career from
generation to generation, carry forward the cause and forge ahead
into the future" sculptured in the TenFu tea Museum exemplifies the
expectation of Chinese tea undertaking of its writer, Chairman Lee
Rieho. |
|
TENFU CALLIGRAPHY AND PAINTING ROOM |
|
Chinese
put writing, playing chess, playing musical instruments, painting,
drinking wine and tea, as the seven scholars must be capable of.
Calligraphy and painting have long been related with tea and have
benefited from each other. "Tea nurtures the scholar's mind."
Scholars seek inspiration from tea when writing and painting at the
same time express their love for tea in their writing and paintings.
The purpose of the TenFu tea Museum's TenFu Calligraphy and Painting
Room is to unite tea naturally with poems, books and paintings so as
to create an elegant environment of tea culture.
<More> |
|
|
|
EXHIBITION HALL |
|
The exhibition hall of the TenFu tea Museum is a two-story building in
ancient Chinese architectural style encompassing an area of 3,000 m2. the
style of the hall is a combination of conventional and modern design.
Materials on tea technology, tea discovery, tea application and innovation
are displayed on the first floor with stories on tea from various dynasties
in China (the Tang Dynasty, the Song Dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty, the Ming
Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty), famous Chinese springs, the current
production condition of Chinese tea, tea garden, different methods
of tea making, tea samples along with all sorts of
<More> |
|
PICTURES
OF TENFU'S TEA MUSEUM |
|
Come enter TenFu's tea Museum pictures gallery.
<Enter> |
|
|
|
TEA ARTS CLASSROOM |
|
Walking through the
tranquil and tasteful corridor that leads you to the pretty lotus
pond after detouring round the exhibition hall, you will reach the
elegant tea arts classroom where you can indulge in tea's mystery
and delights. |
| |
|
JAPANESE TEA ARTS HOUSE |
|
Chinese
tea and tea culture, which relate closely to the origination and
development of Japanese tea arts, boast the deepest effect on Japan.
Tea arts are one of the typical features in Japanese tea culture yet
the beginning of which cannot be isolated from the effect of Chinese
culture.
Along with the spread of Buddhism, Chinese tea and tea
culture immigrated into Japan from Zhejiang Province. A large number
of Japanese officers and knowledgeable monks were escorted to
various famous Buddhism sites to study from the Tang Dynasty to the
Yuan Dynasty. Besides the technology of tea growing and tea boiling,
they introduced traditional Chinese tea ideal to Japan. Therefore
tea arts began to be carried forward in Japan and eventually tea art
was incorporated into Japanese art forms and spiritual meaning. <More> |
|
|
THE KING OF TEA
TREES
Where did tea originate? Scholars of many tea-producing countries
have argued that there are tea trees as old as a thousand years in age. With the
discovery of a 2700-year-old tea tree in Qianjiazhai, Tianyuan, Yunan, China has
proved that tea trees did in fact originated in China. This ancient tea tree of
2700 years old has been considered the kind of tea trees and has been put into
the Guinness Book of Records.
Excited about the discovery of the king of tea trees, Chairman Lee
Rieho, despite of hardship and dangers, climbed the mountain to see the tree at
2500 meters above the sea level on April 15, 2000. The visit took 18 hours to
accomplish. Then Chairman Lee Rieho made up his mind to take care of the old
tree. It was on October 10, 2001 that he reached an agreement with the local
government, TenFu Group has been granted the right to care for the king of tea
tree. The handshaking of human tea king and the king of tea tree is date that
has been waiting to happen for more than a thousand years.
|
