Local Culture-Tea Culture

Tea Culture

For a millennium, in Hangzhou, the reputed "tea capital of China", growing tea, drinking tea, studying tea and trading tea have already embedded deep in the life of local people. A visit to Longjing Tea Garden and the ritualistic Jingshan Tea Banquet will allow to you better appreciate the age-old Chinese national culture.

National Tea Museum of China

It consists of two museum areas. Shuangfeng area contains a West Lake Longjing Tea garden and a permanent exhibition focusing on Chinese tea culture, West Lake Longjing tea and old tea sets collections; Longjing area, sitting on a hilly open courtyard of a typical Jiangnan folk home, overlooks a forest with patches of tea bushes. There you can view the world tea culture exhibition, the thematic show of the intangible heritage of humanity -- the "Traditional tea processing techniques and their associated social practices", and learn about various tea customs.

88 Longjing Rd (Shuangfen area), and 268 Wengjiashan (Longjing area)

+86 571 87964221(Shuangfen area),86593739(Longjing area)

09:00~16:30 (closed on Mondays, open on holidays).

Meijiawu Tea Culture Village
Enclosed amid green hills, Meijiawu is one of the main producing areas of West Lake Longjing and a Grade I Protection Zone of the famous tea brand. Stepping into the village, everywhere you will see neatly manicured tea gardens. You can make a stop at a local agritainment to sample the authentic Longjing tea, taste delicious farm-cooking dishes, and try your hands on tea picking and pan- roasting.
Meijiawu Village

Jingshan/Jingshan Tea Banquet
The birthplace of the world's fi rst tea book, the Book of Tea, Jingshan is also the source of Japanese tea ceremony. Jingshan Tea Banquet, a kind of "Zen rituals" practised by Jingshan Temple monks in the old days when they were engaged in Buddhist reasoning and debate, is also a ceremony of the ancient temple to use tea instead of wine to entertain its guests. It stands for the highest embodiment of an organic fusion of local Buddhist culture and tea culture. The special tea ceremony consists of a dozen ritual procedures, integrating Buddhist practise, Confucian rites and new techniques of dian-cha (tea-whisking).
Jingshan Academy
A research and practice base in Zhejiang Province, Jingshan Academy, based on the life interest
and aesthetics of the Song people, features an integration of Jingshan Zen tea culture and inheritance of the Song culture’s Hangzhou experience. Here you can practise hand tea plucking and pan-roasting, and experience the Song Dynasty-styled seven-step dian-cha tea soup brewing, dressed in Hanfu, the traditional Han Chinese costume.
88 Shangpingshan, Pingshan Village, Jingshan Town, Yuhang District +86 19888812345