The Tang Dynasty Tribute Tea House traveled through thousands of years just for a leaf of tea

📍Attraction address:
Guzhu Tea Culture Scenic Area, Shuikou Township, Changxing County, Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province
🚗 Transportation to attractions:
🚈Transportation: Hangzhou East Station (high-speed rail) - Huzhou Station (high-speed rail); take bus No. 20 (bus) at Huzhou Station - transfer to Changxing No. 101C bus at Dragon Dream Animal World Station - transfer to Central Square Hub Station ~ Guzhu (bus) - Guzhu Scenic Area Station
🌈Main attractions
➡️Lu Yu Pavilion
Lu Yu Pavilion was built to commemorate the contribution of Lu Yu, the "Tea Saint", to the development of world tea culture. People can not only get close to the "Tea Saint" Lu Yu, but also learn about his legendary life.

➡️East Corridor
In the East Corridor of the Gongcha Courtyard, you can see the advanced technology of the Gongcha Courtyard in the Tang Dynasty for processing and manufacturing purple bamboo cake tea, the processing procedures of modern purple bamboo tea, learn about the knowledge of tribute tea from past dynasties, taste the three unique teas, and the process of the spread of tea art.

➡️West Corridor
In the west corridor of Gongcha Courtyard, the first thing you can see is "Celebrity Stories". These stories bear witness to the development and prosperity of Zisun tea. The West Corridor also preserves many "cliff carvings", which explain to us the former glory of "Zisun Gongcha"

➡️Kichijoji
Kichijoji Temple marks the integration of "tribute tea" and "Buddha tea". At the same time, it also showed people the theory of "Tea and Zen are one". The newly built Jixiang Temple is divided into two floors. The first floor mainly introduces the history of the rise and fall of the Gongchayuan, the scenes of the palace tea banquets, and a full display of the Gongchayuan's heyday. The second level focuses on the theory of "Tea and Zen are one", as well as the life of Manjusri Bodhisattva and the stories of eminent monks throughout the ages who realized Zen through drinking tea.
🎟️Ticket related:
Adults 60💰Children 40 yuan/person

Post by Lucas Ward Lucas+34 | Feb 4, 2025