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Pingling Tea Museum
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Time: February, 8, 2007
Location: Pingling Tea Museum
Advisor: Mr.
Ming-Nan Chen
Team members: Feng Yuan, Jing-Wen Fan, Ching-Dan Chiang, Ching-Yi
Chiang |
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Chingshin
Tea Team finding tea.
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Visiting
the hometown of Baozhong tea.
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Museum characteristics |
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The
Pinglin
Tea
Museum
occupies 2.7 hectares; it is the world’s second established tea museum, and also
claims to be the biggest tea museum in the world. The tea museum is located
next to the Pinglin old bridge, it is a two-floored Taiwanese style manor, and in
order to create an ancient feeling, the appearance of the building uses designs
such as long corridors and round doors, and the building materials mainly
consist of tile and wood.
The underground
level of the tea museum has a combined exhibition, it displays three main
units: tea things, tea history, and tea art. Part of the tea things exhibits modern
tea manufacturing machines, traditional tea manufacturing machines, tea
categorization, tea production methods in the Tang and Song Dynasties,
introduction to famous teas in Taiwan, and tea producing areas in the world and
in China; around 15 major themes regarding the tea industry. The tea history
exhibition has the origins of tea, the teas of different dynasties, an
introduction of the Tea God Lu Yu, Pinglin tea history, the history of Wenshan
Baozhong tea development; 15 topics related to the history of the tea industry.
The tea art exhibition has 14 topics including tea pot nursing, introduction of
famous teapots, tea songs, tea books, and learning about tea leaves.
Besides the exhibition hall, the first level
is the activity exhibition hall; it holds regular exhibitions and activities,
such as tea photography, tea production evaluation, and famous modern ceramic
tea utensils. Coming to the Tea Industry Museum, you will learn a lot of professional
tea knowledge, and besides just “tea,”
the garden, the pagodas, the bridges, and the running water, will all cause you
to relax and make you not want to leave.
In the
Tea
Industry
Museum
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exhibition hall and the activity exhibition hall, there are towers and pagodas
that are used as places for tourists to taste and enjoy teas, after viewing all
the tea related exhibitions, it is worth your time to enter a pagoda and
leisurely enjoy a brew of good tea. |
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The
graceful museum garden.
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Learning
about tea in the tea museum.
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Contact method |
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Museum address: 19-1,
Shuei-song-ci-keng St., Shueide Village, Pinglin Township, Taipei County 232,
Taiwan (R.O.C.)
Telephone: 02-26656035
Opening
times: 9:
00A
M to
5:00PM, closed on Mondays.
Website: http://tacocity.com.tw/plin/newpage2.htm |
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Listening
to the explanations.
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Introduction
to the tea production areas in Mainland
China
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Reflections |
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After visiting the
Pinglin
Tea
Museum
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besides increasing our knowledge of tea, we experienced the good scenery of Pinglin;
it did not contest the good name of “
Pinglin
Tea
Town
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Coming here, we discovered that there are many hills in Pinglin and the weather
is warm and humid, very suitable for growing tea trees. “South Oolong,
North Baozhong
,” is the best compliment to Wenshan
Baozhong tea. The excellent natural environment, the hard working tea farmers,
and the high level of tea production skills are the force behind the Pinglin
tea town name.
After having a
deeper understanding, we also started to worry for the tea farmers and future
development of the tea industry, external factors such as: the outflow of young
workers, decrease in tea growing area, and the competition with imported teas, are
all problems facing tea farmers today, how do we face and solve these problems?
How do we develop local tea culture characteristics? How do we maintain the historical
value of the industry?
Through our interviews,
we discovered that fortunately, many farmers have found opportunities through
government assistance; they have started organic tea growing, developed a tea
production location resume system, transferred the tea industry into the field
of recreation, have held educational and promotional events to allow the public
to further understand tea culture and tea knowledge, and to enjoy a variety of
tea products. We look forward to the future cooperation between the government
and the people. The “Chingshin Tea Team” also hopes that our research project
website can help the tea farmers as well as tea culture and development,
allowing the aroma of tea to continue to flow in our lives. |
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