Architectural layout of China Tea Museum

China Tea Museum has a building area of 7,600 square meters and an exhibition area of 2,244 square meters. 1990 10 10 opened in October. It is a national professional museum jointly built by China National Tourism Administration, Zhejiang Province and Hangzhou City. Due to its outstanding contribution to the reform and development of cultural heritage protection, China Tea Museum was awarded the honorary title of National Advanced Collective of Cultural Relics System by the Ministry of Personnel and National Cultural Heritage Administration on May 24th, 2007.

As a museum with the theme of displaying tea culture, the Tea Museum is located in Shuangfeng, the origin of Longjing tea in West Lake, Hangzhou, thus designing six relatively independent and interrelated exhibition spaces, namely, tea history, tea extraction, tea affairs, tea margin, tea set and tea custom, and interpreting tea culture from different angles, which has played a very good display effect.

Building 1 is an exhibition building with five exhibition halls. The Tea History Museum introduces the history of tea production and tea culture in China, the Tea Extraction Museum shows the samples of famous Chinese and foreign teas, the Tea Set Museum shows the evolution and development of tea sets in various historical periods in China, the Tea Affairs Museum introduces the scientific knowledge of planting, making and tasting tea, and the Tea Custom Museum introduces the tea drinking methods and etiquette in Yunnan, Sichuan, Tibet, Fujian, Guangdong and the Ming and Qing Dynasties, reflecting the colorful tea culture in China.

Building 2 is used for receiving foreign guests and academic exchanges.

There are six tea rooms with different styles in Building No.3, where visitors can taste the tea flavor of each tea department.

In Building 4, visitors can enjoy the tea ceremony and tea ceremony performances at all times and all over the world. The buildings in the museum have the characteristics of Jiangnan gardens, and the winding rockery contrasts with the surrounding tea gardens, bringing tourists into the rich and colorful tea culture atmosphere. Tea is one of China's important contributions to human beings and world civilization. China is the origin of tea trees and the first country to discover and utilize tea. Tea industry and tea culture began with drinking tea. For thousands of years, tea culture has been enriched and developed in China's long history of national culture, and has become a treasure of oriental traditional culture. Modern tea culture has enriched the world culture with its unique style.

Today, tea, as a worldwide beverage, maintains the deep feelings of people in China and other countries. Tea has been sung for thousands of years in the history of China since Shennong first discovered and utilized it. This old saying shows the indissoluble bond between tea and the people of China.

Tea men in past dynasties have made countless explorations and attempts on tea affairs. Tea affairs have become very popular since the publication of Lu Yu's Tea Classic.

Throughout the ages, the variety, preparation, utensils, storage, drinking and use of tea have their own techniques, ways and feelings. Walking into the museum, the first thing that brings people is shock: it has no walls. General museums give people a solemn feeling and have a vast shelf of classic culture. However, the Tea Museum has completely opened fences and fences, and only densely planted spiny plants in areas that need to be sheltered, which is both transparent and effective, creating an ecological museum without walls, which is "the museum is in the teahouse and the tea is in the museum". It seems to tell people that we have no threshold and we welcome every guest.

The Museum without Walls is a very pure leisure scenic spot with tea culture atmosphere, which displays the humanistic theme and charm of tea culture everywhere, and attracts the vast number of tea culture lovers and Chinese and foreign tourists with its unique garden art with Jiangnan flavor and profound tea culture special exhibition.

At the foot of the road, suddenly took everyone's line of sight. The pavement paved with natural stone is inlaid with 65,438+000 words of "tea" or "tea" nicknames (such as "tea", "tea", "tea" and "Ming"), such as ancient inscriptions, rubbings, masterpieces, celebrity calligraphy, paintings, ceramic inscriptions and cliff stone carvings, which are flowing and vigorous.

Unconsciously, I walked past this tea ceremony called "Double Fragrance Path" and came to the northwest corner of the Tea Expo. A tea rhyme water system across the tea Expo has become the landscape axis of tea Expo tourism, which just shows the theme of "water is the mother of tea" and the blending relationship between "tea" and "water". The water system is built on the mountain, introducing the living water of Qiantang River, running from the north corner of Chaposi to the southeast corner, and merging with the mountain stream outside the pavilion. The natural boulders washed by natural waterfalls for many years are used to protect the bank, and a layer of pebbles is laid on the bottom of the stream. The treatment methods of deep pool storage, layered dam construction, springs, mountain streams, streams and beaches are adopted to make the water flow step by step, just like nine streams and eighteen streams, forming the effect of water overlapping. Downstream, there are characteristic teahouses and outdoor tea tasting areas on both sides of the water system. Outside the southeast, you come to the exhibition hall, the essence of tea culture. The China tea culture here has a long history, and the waterscape gradually ends here. The whole tour route is not only smooth and continuous, but also profound.

When I walked into the preface hall of the exhibition hall, I was immediately attracted by the gurgling sound of running water. I saw a water curtain descending slowly from a place more than ten meters high, and a huge green word "tea" was infiltrated by a spring tide, which was particularly clear and eye-catching. It is really "pure tea, made with water, without water." Under the water curtain, the rockery bonsai is lush. This dynamic and static design symbolizes the long history of China tea culture, explains the affinity between tea and water, nature and people, and highlights the theme of the exhibition.

The cultural display of the Tea Museum is very attractive, which is also the essence of the museum. The whole exhibition is divided into six parts: tea history, tea extraction, tea affairs, tea set, tea custom and tea margin, which shows the infinite charm of tea culture in many aspects, levels and dimensions.

Wandering in the exhibition hall, what makes the audience linger most is the colorful reappearance of local tea customs. Scenes vividly tell the daily life of people of all ethnic groups who love tea. Tibetan butter tea, the audience can make it themselves; The "bamboo stove soup boiling red at the beginning" under the simulated big tea tree is the fried tea of Yunnan Dai people; The tea stall and seven-star kitchen set up in Linjiang are flourishing, climbing the stairs and looking forward to the beginning of Wushan; Looking back at the "tea" fluttering in the wind in front of Huizhou merchants' teahouse at sunset, it seems to be back to the era of1the end of the 9th century and the beginning of the 20th century. On one side of the teahouse, the Fujian Kung Fu Tea Ceremony is being staged, and the solemn and elegant tea lady is brewing a pot of Tieguanyin for you. The people who stop to watch have already become the scenery in the eyes of others.

From wild big tea tree slices in virgin forest to various cultivated tea tree specimens; From the humble drinking utensils in Liangzhu period to the exquisite court tea sets in Ming and Qing dynasties; From the fossil of tea seeds to the tea custom scene with strong national style, precious cultural relics, supplemented by carefully designed words, pictures and charts, well-made models, lifelike statues and elegant and moving music have interpreted the process of civilization for thousands of years.

There are many unique ideas in the display of the Tea Expo Hall. Strive to increase the audience's intuition, improve the audience's perceptual knowledge, change the rule that traditional museums are only allowed to see and are not allowed to do anything, provide the audience with as many opportunities to participate as possible, and improve the audience's interest in visiting.

Some exhibition halls have open exhibition areas. More than 300 kinds of tea samples, such as green tea, black tea, oolong tea, white tea, yellow tea, black tea and reprocessed tea, are displayed in the tea extraction hall, which are placed on the cylindrical tea tree-shaped table and equipped with corresponding buttons. As long as the audience puts on headphones and clicks the button next to the specimen, there will be a beautiful voice to introduce the relevant tea knowledge. At the same time, the open area also displays various kinds of pressed teas, such as melon tea, bamboo shoot shell tea, wolfberry cake tea, square brick tea and Fuzhuan brick tea. The small diameter is only one or two centimeters, and the large diameter is actually more than one meter. As long as the audience is interested, they can touch it with their hands and even feel its fragrance with their sense of smell.

In the teahouse, the open display once again gives the audience a chance to feel all the tea, from the seeds, branches and fruits of the tea tree; From a leaf to a delicious tea drink ... just turn the turntable and you can know the appropriate brewing time, tea consumption and tea-water ratio at a glance. The "Three Boiling Diagram" vividly illustrates the "Three Boiling" theory of "fish eyes, crab eyes and huge waves" put forward by Lu Yu of Cha Sheng in the Book of Tea.

The use of multimedia makes the limited display infinitely extended. The whole exhibition * * * has set up five multimedia touch screens, which organically string together elements related to tea culture, such as social politics, economy, music, poetry, painting, dance and religion, and input them into computer programs. As long as you touch it gently, a lot of tea culture information will come in. The multimedia system with quiz is more attractive to the audience. Click the mouse, you can get a pleasure of knowledge acquisition.

In the tea museum, you can not only enjoy the professional tea culture display, but also deepen and broaden your knowledge in the field of vision and feel the strong cultural atmosphere. Park-style museums carefully handle the arrangement of surrounding plants, spare no effort to highlight the theme by using the characteristic arrangement of plants, and constantly extend tea culture to the surrounding environment. There are different varieties of camellia in Theaceae plants, which can be compared with tea trees. Ornamental plants for soaking and drinking are Gynostemma pentaphyllum, Zanzibar, Ilex macrophylla, June frost, Lycium barbarum, Acer ginnala, mint, jasmine, Houttuynia cordata, wild hawthorn, rose, osmanthus fragrans, honeysuckle, chrysanthemum morifolium, etc. It not only increases the popularity and interest of popular science, but also creates a characteristic plant landscape. At the same time, it is hierarchical in configuration and has the characteristics of tea culture. Wandering in the museum, inadvertently looking at it, it is an ecological park without human traces, but after careful observation, every bridge and every pool has a poetic name and contains vivid cultural stories. Even the grass and trees have names and cultural charm.

The Tea Expo also has a unique and open tea variety resource park-Jiamuyuan, which is a vivid theme tea garden, displaying more than 65,438+000 tea varieties. There are obvious differences among many varieties. In addition to the common shrub-type tea trees, we can also see tree-type tea trees, such as black jujube, yellow jujube, cinnamon, Eriocheir sinensis, Yunnan big leaf and so on. The resource park has also set up signs to explain the origin, names and suitable teas of various tea varieties, creating a lively outdoor exhibition area. Baked incense, located under Jiamuyuan, is a vivid supplement to the exhibition hall, which also shows the skills of frying tea and the important processes of tea processing to the audience during the tea picking season, and deepens the visitors' understanding of tea-making technology.

Careful plant arrangement and variety garden have greatly enriched the connotation of tea culture, successfully liberated tea culture from a single visual display and extended it to the surrounding environment, forming a considerable, tangible and sensible new experience. The environmental sketch of the Tea Museum has also attracted people's attention. More than 300 columns with different shapes and exquisite carvings are placed under the columns of the glass corridor, either as environmental decoration or for tourists to have a rest. Piles with different rocks, sizes and shapes show their different life experiences and contain rich information about humanities and ancient architecture. In museums, many tourists can always be seen amazed at the pillars on both sides of the road. Although these exquisite stone piers have experienced long-term wind and rain erosion, they are still discernible, and there are auspicious stone carvings on all sides, which have rich meanings and vivid shapes. With the participation of these pillars, the cultural atmosphere of the tea fair is more intense. This is a place where tea culture spreads and leaves are scattered, and it is also a dazzling place where stone carving art gathers.

Cha Sheng Lu Yu's sage demeanor makes people stop, overlooking the mountains of Lu Yu, and arouses people's nostalgia for the sages. The statue of Lu Yu in the Tea Expo is made of bronze and is about 2.5 meters high. It is equipped with a short tea table, on which tea stoves, teacups and other tea tasting utensils are placed. Lu Yu stood by, holding a tea bowl in her left hand and a tea book in her right hand, enjoying the lingering fragrance of tea between her lips and teeth, with a cool air and vivid momentum. Watches and sundials placed near Jiqingtai also attracted special attention. Although it is set for sketches, it can actually be used. Both the standard watch and the sundial belong to the oldest astronomical instruments in China, taking the sun as the observation target and determining the time according to the length of the sun shadow.

Solar terms are determined according to the change of shadow length at noon. It consists of two parts: He Jiong and Biao. The base of the watch is decorated with "Twelve Tea Sets for the Old People in Shen An in Song Dynasty" and "Twenty-four solar term song" respectively.

The sundial uses the change of the shadow direction of a day to determine the time. It consists of two parts: dial and hands. One side of the sundial is decorated with "keep pace with the times" and the other side is decorated with "an inch of time and an inch of gold, and an inch of gold can't buy an inch of time". The time referred to in the sundial is the local actual solar time, that is, the apparent solar time, which has an unequal time difference from the commonly used Beijing time.

Guibiao and sundial are very helpful to agricultural production in ancient China, and tea production is also a part of agricultural culture. It is necessary to use the standard table and sundial to determine the solar terms and time of tea picking, which embodies the seasonal requirements of tea. The setting of standard tables and sundials can not only help people learn more about astronomy, but also measure the time and solar terms by themselves according to the prompts. At the same time, tea activities are embodied in a complete farming culture, which shows the close relationship between tea culture and farming culture.

Enjoy tea in the teahouse with a relaxed and pleasant leisure mood. When you are tired, just choose a place to sit down, breathing deeply the fragrance of osmanthus in the air, and your mouth is thirsty. I chose a place where there is water and birds singing, ordered a pot of tea, tasted it carefully, and slowly let the tea smell fill my lips and teeth, so I tasted a kind of leisure and a different kind of elegance.

This elegance will be remembered, partly because of the style of tea and partly because of humanity. Walking into this Longjing tea town, I tasted another West Lake smoke and moon flavor, just like tea in a cup. Although thick, it is also durable.