Architectural layout of the Chinese Tea Museum

Chinese Tea Museum building area of 7,600 square meters, exhibition area of 2,244 square meters. 1990 from October open, is the National Tourism Administration, Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou City **** with the construction of national professional museums. Due to the reform and development of cultural heritage protection undertakings have made outstanding contributions, May 24, 2007, China Tea Museum by the State Ministry of Personnel and the State Administration of Cultural Heritage awarded the national cultural relics system of advanced collectives of the glorious title.

The Tea Museum, as a museum displaying the theme of tea culture, the building is located in the area of Shuangfeng, the place of origin of Hangzhou's West Lake Longjing Tea, thus designing six relatively independent and interconnected display spaces of tea history, tea collection, tea affairs, tea margins, tea utensils, tea customs, interpreting the tea culture from different perspectives, and playing a very good display effect.

The first floor is a display building with five exhibition halls. Tea History Hall introduces the history of tea production and tea culture in China, Tea Collection Hall exhibits samples of famous Chinese and foreign teas, Tea Ware Hall displays the evolution and development of tea wares in China's historical periods, Tea Matters Hall introduces the scientific knowledge of planting, making and tasting tea, and Tea Customs Hall introduces the tea-drinking methods and etiquette of Yunnan, Sichuan, Tibet, Fujian, Guangdong and the Ming and Qing Dynasties, reflecting China's rich and colorful tea culture.

The second building is used for the reception of foreign guests and academic exchanges.

The third building is equipped with six different styles of tea rooms for visitors to taste the tea drinking flavor of each tea family.

In the fourth building, visitors can enjoy the ancient and modern Chinese and foreign tea ceremony and tea ceremony performance. Pavilion building with Jiangnan garden features, winding paths and mountains and the surrounding tea garden contrast, the visitors into the rich and colorful atmosphere of tea culture. Tea is one of the important contributions made by China to mankind and world civilization. China is the origin of the tea tree, is the first country to discover and utilize tea. The tea industry and tea culture began with the drinking of tea. Over the past thousands of years, with the tea-drinking habit deepening into the life of the Chinese people, the tea culture has been enriched and developed in the long national culture of our country, and has become a treasure of traditional oriental culture. In recent times, tea culture has enriched the world culture with its unique style.

Today, tea as a global beverage, sustaining the Chinese people and the world's peoples deep emotions. Tea, since Shennong initially discovered and utilized since, in Chinese history has been chanting for thousands of years. Seven things to do at the open door, firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy, vinegar and tea. This ancient proverb speaks of tea's unbreakable bond with the Chinese people.

On the matter of tea, generations of tea people have made countless explorations and attempts. Since Lu Yu, "tea scripture" came out, the tea side of the popularity.

Throughout the ages, the kind of tea, the system, the apparatus, the collection, the drink, the use of each of its art, each of its way, each of its feelings. Into the museum, the first thing that brings people is shocked: it has no walls. The general feeling of the museum are solemn, there is a grand classic culture of the shelf. But the tea museum throughout the land through the fence and wall, only in the need to block the zone, densely planted thorny plants, both permeable and effective blocking, creating a "museum in the tea, tea in the museum" of the ecological type of the museum without walls, it seems to tell people: we do not have the threshold, we welcome the arrival of each guest.

No walled museum, but a tea culture atmosphere is quite strong and simple leisure scenic spot, everywhere highlighting the humanities theme and tea culture flavor, with a unique Jiangnan flavor of garden art and the profound tea culture thematic display to attract the majority of tea culture enthusiasts and Chinese and foreign tourists.

The road underneath your feet immediately takes away all your sight. The natural stone pavement unexpectedly inlaid with 100 "tea" characters or "tea" aliases (such as Thea sinensis, Thea sinensis, Thea sinensis, Tantui, Ming, etc.) originating from the monuments, tablets, posters, calligraphy, paintings, ceramics inscriptions, and cliff carvings of the past dynasties, or The tea characters in the 100 "tea" characters or "tea" aliases (such as Thea sinensis, Thea sinensis, Thea sinensis, etc.) in the stone carvings, or the running clouds and flowing water, or the thick and strong, or the unrestrained, or the ancient interest, people can not help but be intoxicated in the art of calligraphy and seal cutting paradise, not only the aroma of the book and ink rhyme, but also smelled the strong aroma of the tea, the tea has not yet come, the aroma first.

Unconsciously walk through the tea road called "double incense path", came to the northwest corner of the Tea Expo, a cross Tea Expo, quite tea charm of the water system, become the Tea Expo tour of the landscape axis, aptly demonstrated the "water for the mother of tea," the theme, the force of the present "Tea" and "water" blend relationship. Water system using the mountain, the introduction of the Qiantang River water, from the northwest corner of the Tea Expo has been through to the southeast corner, and outside the Museum of the mountain stream convergence, by natural waterfalls over the years by the natural rock barge, and in the bottom of the stream paved with a layer of cobblestones, the use of deep pools of water storage, layered dams, springs, streams, streams and other processing techniques, so that the water flow step by step, just like the nine streams eighteen streams, the formation of superimposed water effect. Follow the water down, the water system on both sides of the characteristic teahouse and outdoor tea tasting area, out of the southeast, then came to the essence of tea culture - display building, where there is a long history of Chinese tea culture, the water to this gradual to the end of the whole a tour line not only shows the smooth continuity, but also far-reaching meaning.

Walked into the prelude to the display building, was immediately attracted by the murmuring sound of water, only to see a water screen from ten meters high down, a tide of spring water infiltrated with a large green "tea" word, appearing exceptionally bright and eye-catching, it is really "fine tea and incense, through the water, no water can not be discussed with the tea also! ". Under the water curtain, the rockery bonsai is lush and green. This combination of static and dynamic design symbolizes the long history of Chinese tea culture, interprets the affinity between tea and water, nature and people, and highlights the theme of the exhibition.

The cultural display of the Tea Museum is attractive, and here is the essence of the museum. The whole exhibition is divided into six parts, including tea history, tea collection, tea affairs, tea utensils, tea customs, and tea margins, etc., which display the infinite charm of tea culture in a multi-faceted, multi-level and three-dimensional way.

Wandering in the exhibition hall, the audience is the most colorful reproduction of tea customs. A vivid scene, recounting the daily life of the people of various ethnic groups drink tea, love tea. Tibetan home ghee tea, the audience can be personally hand-made; simulation of a large tea tree, "bamboo stove soup boiling fire red" is the Yunnan Dai family of roasted tea; set up by the river and the tea stalls seven-star stove is thriving, pick up the steps, looking at the Wushan Mountain clouds and rain clearing up; under the slanting sun to look back at the Huishang Tea before the wind fluttering "tea "Front, as if back to the end of the nineteenth century, the early twentieth century that era. To the side of the tea house, the Fujian Kung Fu Tea Ceremony is being staged, with elegant tea ladies brewing pots of Tieguanyin for you, while those who stop to watch have long since become a sight to behold.

From slices of wild tea trees in primitive forests to specimens of cultivated tea trees; from simple and crude drinking vessels of the Liangzhu period to exquisite court tea sets of the Ming and Qing dynasties; from fossilized tea seeds to scenes of ethnic tea customs, each piece of precious cultural relics, supplemented by well-designed texts, pictures, charts, well-made models, exquisite statues, and elegant and touching music, interpret the process of civilization for thousands of years. of civilization.

The Tea Museum display has many unique ideas, it strives to increase the sense of intuition, improve the audience's perceptual understanding, a change in the traditional museums are only allowed to see, not allowed to do the rules, as far as possible, to provide the audience with opportunities for participation, to enhance the audience's interest in visiting.

Some exhibition halls have open display area. Tea collection hall display of green tea, black tea, oolong tea, white tea, yellow tea, black tea six tea categories and reprocessed tea, etc. *** more than three hundred tea samples in kind, was divided into categories placed in the cylindrical tea tree-shaped table, while equipped with the corresponding button. As long as the audience put on headphones, click on the button next to the specimen, there will be a melodious voice to introduce the relevant knowledge of tea. At the same time in the open area is also displayed a variety of tightly pressed tea, tea, bamboo shoots shell tea, seven son cake tea, square brick tea, Por brick tea, etc., the small diameter of just one or two centimeters, the diameter of the large even more than a meter. As long as the audience is interested, you can use your hands to touch, and even use your sense of smell to feel its fragrance.

In the Tea Hall, the open display once again allows the audience the opportunity to feel the whole of the tea, from the seeds of the tea tree, branches to the fruit; from a leaf to a tasty tea drink ...... as long as the turntable, the various types of tea appropriate brewing time, the amount of tea, tea and water ratios and other knowledge at a glance. The "three boiling map" image illustrates the tea saint Lu Yu in the "tea scripture" put forward, "fish eyes, crab eyes, waves and drums" of the "three boiling" said.

The use of multimedia, so that the limited display of infinite extension. The entire exhibition *** set up five multimedia touch screen, will be related to tea culture, social politics, economy, music, poetry, painting, dance, religion and other elements were organically strung together, programmed into the computer, as long as the hand gently point, a large number of tea culture information comes from the source. The multimedia system of prize competition is even more attractive to the audience, and with a click of the mouse, you can get a share of the joy of knowledge acquisition.

In addition to enjoying the professional tea culture display in the Tea Museum, you can also deepen and broaden your knowledge in the scope of vision, and feel the strong cultural atmosphere. Park-like museum, the surrounding plant configuration has been carefully handled, sparing no effort to use the plant's characteristics of the configuration highlights the theme of the tea culture continues to extend to the surrounding environment. There are different varieties of camellias belonging to Camellia sinensis, which can be compared with the traits of tea trees; there are ornamental and drinkable plants, such as gynostemma, tortoiseshell, big-leaf holly, June frost, wolfberry, tea maple, mint, jasmine, fritillaries, wild hawthorn, roses, osmanthus, honeysuckle, chrysanthemums, etc. The museum is also a place to increase the popularization of science and fun. Not only to increase the popularity of science and interest, to create a characteristic plant landscape, while in the configuration of the level, but also tea culture characteristics. Wandering through the museum, without looking, is an ecological park without artificial traces, but a closer look, each bridge, each pool has a poetic name, are embedded in a vivid cultural story, even a grass and a tree have a name, have a cultural flavor.

The Tea Expo also has a unique, open tea tree varieties resource garden - Jia Mu Yuan, which is a vivid thematic tea tree garden, showing more than 100 kinds of varieties of tea trees in a variety of forms. Many varieties differ significantly from each other, and in addition to the commonly seen shrub type tea trees, you can also see tree type large tea trees, such as Wuniu Early, Yellow Leaf Early, Cinnamon, Hairy Crab, Yunnan Big Leaf, and other large tea trees and so on. The Resource Nursery also has signs explaining the origin, name and tea type of various tea tree species, creating a vivid outdoor exhibition area. Located in the Jia Mu Yuan under the baking incense Yiyi in the tea picking season to the audience also perform tea frying, show frying tea technology and tea processing important procedures, deepen the understanding of visitors to the tea production process, is a vivid complement to the exhibition hall display.

Careful plant configuration and varieties of gardens, greatly enriching the connotation of the tea blog tea culture, and successfully liberated from a single visual display of tea culture to the surrounding environment to extend the formation of a new experience can be seen, touched and felt. Tea Museum environment is also very attractive to people's eyes. more than 300 different forms, beautifully carved column base, or placed in the glass gallery under the pillar, or as environmental decoration, or for visitors to rest. Pillar bases of different stone quality, size and shape, showing that they have their own different life, encompassing a wealth of humanities and ancient architectural art of information. In the museum, you can always see a lot of tourists on both sides of the road to the pillar base of the tsk tsk exclamation, these delicate and exquisite stone piers, despite the experience of long years of wind and rain erosion, is still vaguely recognizable, face to face with auspicious stone carvings of the drawings, rich in meaning, elegance of the God. With the participation of these pillars, the cultural atmosphere of the Tea Expo is more intense, is the tea culture, or a wide range of stone art collection.

Tea Sage Lu Yu's immortal style of Taoist bone people stop, far away from the mountains of Lu Yu, inspired people to the sage's memory. Tea Bo Lu Yu statue for the bronze, about 2.5 meters high, and is equipped with a low tea table, set the tea stove, tea cups and other tea utensils on, Lu Yu is standing next to the side of the robe, holding a tea bowl in his left hand, the right hand holding a book of tea, savoring the afterglow of the tea between the lips and teeth, the demeanor, the atmosphere is vivid. Placed in the auspicious platform near the table and the sundial also attracted special attention. Although it is a small set, in fact, can be used. Gui table and sundial belong to China's oldest astronomical instruments, the sun as the target of observation, according to determine the length of the sun's shadow to determine the time of the time instrument.

The kyu watch is based on changes in the length of the shadow at noon to determine the festival, the fixed length of the year, by the kyu and the table of the two parts of the kyu watch base week were decorated with the "Song Dynasty, the old man of the twelve Tea Figure Zhan" and "twenty-four seasons of the song".

The sundial is the use of a day of the table shadow of the direction of the change to set out the moment, by the plate and needle two parts, the sundial side of the decorative "with the day", the other side of the decorative "an inch of time an inch of gold, an inch of gold can not buy an inch of time". The time referred to by the sundial is the actual local solar time, i.e., the true solar time, and the commonly used Beijing time there are unequal time differences.

The gui table and sundial on China's ancient agricultural production is extremely helpful, and tea production is also part of the farming culture, the need to use the gui table and sundial to determine the tea picking season and time, reflecting the seasonal requirements of the tea. The setting of the kuiwatches and sundials not only helps people to understand more astronomical knowledge, and they can measure the time and season by their own hands according to the prompts, but also integrates the tea activities into a complete farming culture, which shows the intimate relationship between the tea culture and the farming culture.

With a relaxed and happy mood of leisure in the Tea Museum Observation taste, tired, randomly pick a place to sit down, breathe y in the air the sweet fragrance of osmanthus, thirsty, pick a place to sit with the sound of water and birdsong, called on a pot of tea, taste, slowly let the tea filled with the lips and teeth, it is also out of a leisurely, a different kind of elegance to.

Such elegance, will be remembered, remembered half in the tea Bo style half in the humanities. Into the Longjing tea country, tasted another West Lake smoke and moon flavor, this flavor, just as the cup of tea, although strong, but also a long sweetness.