tea is also intoxicating, why not wine, book can not be spent. Reviewing the union's explanation, Shi Hai is sinking. During the Republic of China, the "Lanting Tea Society" of Yongxing Ancient Town of Meitan was full of scent of books. Interchange information in the name of tea chat. There are also a large number of local progressive masses and revolutionary youths in the tea agency to "drink and drink" to read the press release of Xinhua News Agency transmitted by the underground party. "Lanting Tea Club" was an important place for Zhejiang University students to learn. At that time, the "Lanting Tea Club" was a city in the city, and the business was booming. The two -story wooden buildings with about 200 people are full of seats every day, up to Zunyi , Chongqing, and down to Fenggang , Sinan , Dejiang , Nuchuan and other places. will gather here.
The people who founded this tea society at Yongxing Field in Meitan are not natives of Yongxing, but Zheng Tingxuan, Nanchong, Sichuan. At the end of the 18th century (around 1899). Zheng Tingxuan traded business business in different prefectures such as salt, tea, and cloth in Nanchong, Sichuan, and traveled to Nanchong , Chongqing and Qianbei Town, Qianbei Town of Guizhou. Due to the inconvenience of transportation and the long distance, in order to stock up, it is convenient for the transportation of carriage in batches. Each time you come and go above January, you gradually make a lot of business friends on the Yongxing field.
Zheng Tingxuan has become increasingly frequent in the business between Nanchong and Yongxing, and its business focus has gradually tilted towards markets such as Yongxing Tea. In order to take into account the whole family and the old life, it is convenient for the life of the only child to live without worry. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, the family moved from Nanchong to Yongxing Town, Meitan, and built a two -story building building in Yongxing Back Street.
Zheng Tingxuan was smart and clever since childhood, read private schools, and wrote a good word. It is one of the representatives of Yongxing Bazaar's trade with culture, good management, smooth current affairs, and suffering.
was in the early years of the Republic of China. Sichuan, Chongqing, Langhu, Jiangsu and Guangdong and other southern nations and modern economy accelerated. Blowing up and becoming connected to Mei , Phoenix, Yu, Kuai, De, Si, Si, Yinjiang , Tongren and other places in the market trade exchange center. The market trade once every five days has a wide coverage, the personnel exchanges from morning to night, and the economic exchanges are very frequent. At that time, a fixed antique drama was built in the ancient town of Yongxing. Whenever there were drama teams or juggling groups from various places during the rushing day. The market on the market has all available food, tea, cloth, crafts, tobacco, alcohol, meat, poultry, beef and sheep, wood, etc. Foreign settlement merchants have gradually become the mainstream of the Yongxing market trade. The varieties, scale and quantities operated by merchants have grown rapidly. There are both division of labor and cooperative market prosperity, and they are in the golden period of Yongxing Field Trade.
has passed with years, Zheng Tingxuan gradually age. In the early 1920s (around 1920), his son Zheng Xiaokang grew up, but unfortunate I am Zheng Xiaokang Discipline. The son also relied on the family and rich, developed a bad person to develop a bad director, and swims the bad habit of taking opium.
Zheng Tingxuan knows the defects of his son. In order to ensure the undefeated family business, restrict unusually rational family, and excessively consume the family, so as to establish a family business that can continue to prosper. The girl's girl Wang Guozhen came to the Zheng family in the Zheng family, hoping to continue the incense and hard -won business and family business.
But because Zheng Xiaokang has become a habit in society, and has met some people who do not work in the society, and the family prosperity has attracted the attention of the robber.One day in the early summer of 1927, when Zheng Tingxuan was out on business, more than a dozen robbers suddenly broke into Zheng's house and looted all the gold and silver in the house. Zheng Tingxuan hurried home after hearing the news. He did not go to count the robbed items but first asked how his family was doing. When he learned that his family was okay, he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It's good that they are here."
After Zheng's family was robbed by gangsters, Zheng Tingxuan was frightened, and he decided to change his career. After careful consideration and careful analysis of the characteristics of Yongxing market trade where many people buy tea at street stalls to quench their thirst, he decided to sell the two-story building for cash, plus all his previous savings, and boldly converted Zhongjie (formerly Yongxing District Government Office Temple) The three popular shops next door) were rented from the outside to the inside, upstairs and downstairs, and a large number of tables and chairs were quickly purchased. In less than half a year, the largest shop at the time was opened specifically for his daughter-in-law Wang Guozhen, named " The tea house of "Lanting Tea House". From then on, there was the first teahouse of considerable scale on Yongxing Street. Wang Guozhen took on the important task of running the teahouse.
After that, the business of the teahouse became more and more prosperous. Visitors from all over the town came to the teahouse to drink tea and exchange stories. Wang Guozhen also invited Puti, a well-known folk storyteller at the time, to come to the teahouse to tell stories. Some traveling performers, singers, juggling and other artists from other places also came to the teahouse. Going to the teahouse to perform, watching plays during the day and listening to Huai's books at night, it was very lively and became the highlight of Yongxing market trade for a while.
The teahouse maintains a high attendance rate from morning to night every day. In terms of operation, we draw lessons from the characteristics of teahouse operation in Chengdu, Sichuan. The teas brewed include ordinary tea, jasmine tea, chestnut tea, Maofeng tea , etc. Things that go well with tea include sunflower seeds, peanuts, coriander beans, etc. Since then, the Zheng family's business has made new progress, and Zheng Xiaokang has adapted to the bustling atmosphere of the teahouse. He no longer wanders around on the street, but helps greet guests and serves tea and water from time to time. In the nearly twenty years since then, Wang Guozhen has given birth to three more boys and three girls. It can be said that the family is prosperous, the business is prosperous, and the family business is booming.
After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the underground party organization of the Communist Party of China in northern Guizhou launched anti-Japanese and national salvation work in Yongxing. "Lanting Tea House" became the contact point for the secret activities of the underground party organizations of the Chinese Communist Party. In the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, He Enyu, He Shaoqi and others from the local underground Communist Party organization often had frequent secret contacts. He Shaoqi and Wang Guozhen's son Zheng Kejia were classmates and knew his life very well. In addition, there are many people coming and going at "Lanting Tea House", so it is easy to contact and make secret connections convenient.
He Shaoqi often used tea as a cover to carry out liaison work with underground party organizations. Zheng Kejia had progressive ideas and he also knew that He Shaoqi was an underground party member. Zheng and He understand each other. He Shaoqi once hinted that he has made "Lanting Tea House" a fixed contact point for the underground party, hoping to take care and keep it confidential. Zheng Kejia agreed and often arranged for them to talk in the private room upstairs.
After Japan surrendered, Zhejiang University returned to the east. The relationship between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party turned into hostility. He Shaoqi still often comes to the teahouse to carry out secret joint work for the underground party's struggle against the enemy, and continues to use "Lanting Teahouse" as the contact point for the underground party. Zheng Kejia knew the importance of their work and was more cautious. He acted as an informant from time to time, used code words to report their safety and covered their retreat. In order to guard against the following enemies, He Shaoqi repeatedly handed over his pistol to Zheng Kejia for temporary safekeeping for safe retreat.
"Lanting Tea House", the underground party contact point, was never exposed until the liberation of Yongxing.
After the Cultural Revolution, not long after He Shaoqi and his wife implemented the policy and resumed their duties, they came from Guiyang to Meitan Zheng Kejia's home to thank him for supporting and helping him in his underground work. The two had a great time getting together and chatting. Two days and two nights.
In 1940, Zhejiang University moved westward to Zunyi, Meitan, and Yongxing. The branch branch was established in Yongxing, which mainly arranged for about 400 first-year freshmen and preparatory classes of Zhejiang University to study. Zhejiang University has been operating in Yongxing for nearly seven years, with four to five hundred teachers and students replaced every year.
Freshmen from Zhejiang University come from all over the country, bringing fresh blood and new ideas and culture to Yongxing, which plays a huge role in promoting the local economy and culture. Every Sunday and holiday, "Lanting Tea House" has become a common place for them to read books, read newspapers and communicate with local people. Zheng Kejia once said during his lifetime that Zhejiang University student Li Zhengdao often went to Lanting Tea House to read. Zhejiang University professor Wang Xichang once led students to the "Lanting Tea House" to have tea and rest. During this period, he also specifically asked the boss Wang Guozhen to learn about Yongxing's customs and customs, and asked Ask people on Yongxing Street about their social impressions of students and so on.
With the support of his mother Wang Guozhen, Zheng Kejia was admitted to the Central Experimental Tea Farm Vocational High School of the Republic of China to major in tea. At that time, there were Mou Yingshu , Chen Huayuan, Zou Zhaofeng, Li Yongru and other progressive young people who were working together. While they studied tea professional courses at the Central Experimental Tea Farm Vocational School of the Republic of China, they often went to the "Lanting Tea House" for on-site practice, exchanged tea production processes, etc., and learned about how to select tea from green tea to finished product, drying, tea making equipment, and brewing. Preparation environment, heat and temperature for making tea, and storage Environment and utensils, tea cultivation, grafting, pruning, fertilization, tea picking, drying, packaging, etc., extensive exchanges and practices, accumulated experience in tea cultivation, production, process and selection, etc., becoming the number one native of Meitan A batch of educated young people with tea majors.
After liberation, Wang Guozhen and his daughter-in-law Yang Changhua continued to operate the "Lanting Teahouse", and the business was still booming. It was not until 1956 that the state implemented public-private partnership reform for industry and commerce. "Lanting Teahouse" and "Yang's Teahouse" on the first street (owned by Yang Changhua's father, Yang Changguo) were also integrated after the public-private partnership reform. After the merger of the two teahouses, the equipment was moved to Yongxing Above the alley next to Zhongjie Bank, we continue to operate a teahouse cooperatively. Yang Changguo participated in the operation and management as the representative of the "Yang Family Tea House", and Yang Changhua also participated in the management as the representative of the Zheng Family "Lanting Tea House". Later, Yang Changhua was paralyzed in bed due to illness and could not go to work. In addition, her husband Zheng Kejia (then director of Yongxing Farm) was imprisoned for being unjustly, falsely and wrongly convicted, and her mother-in-law Wang Guozhen passed away. At the end of 1957, Yang Changhua was forced to withdraw from Yongxing Teahouse. This completely ended the operation of Zheng's teahouse.
"Lanting Tea House" came to an end with the changes of the times.
Nowadays, walking on the old bluestone road of the ancient town, you can see the quaint stone carvings, the enclosed house-like courtyard, the bluish stone gate, the four-corner patio with light... The smell of history makes people feel the atmosphere of the old days. The so-called nostalgia is leached from these obvious cultural relics.
Looking back at the past, how many such tea houses were there in Yongxing Ancient Town. Nowadays, the people living in the ancient town have changed from generation to generation, and they are either sad or happy, but they can no longer find the bustling teahouse that once was bustling with people! "Lanting Tea House" has become an unforgettable historical memory of the ancient town.
Source: Meitan Literature and History
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