Qingming Secret Route | Pick Spring Tea, Stay in Ancient Courtyards, Visit Historic Towns

When the first spring mist of Southern Shaanxi drifts over the swastika-patterned windows of Qu Family Mansion, this 300-year-old intangible cultural heritage building becomes a time tunnel.
🍀Stay in a century-old residence and feel the healing touch of history~
🏡Qu Family Mansion Inn
📍Dongba Village, Qingmuchuan Town, Ningqiang County, Hanzhong City, Shaanxi Province

👉Stay | Time Capsule in a Century-old Tea House
Hidden in Ningqiang, Hanzhong, Qu Family Mansion has been watching over 🍵thousands of acres of tea fields since the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty. Push open the faded vermillion courtyard gate, and 🌁the mist from the Qinba Mountains brings with it the fragrance of tea.
This ornately decorated residence, built in the late Qing Dynasty, is one of the most well-preserved private mansions in the ancient town.
1⃣7⃣guest rooms serve as vessels for dialogue between past and present. Every 🧱carved brick tells stories of the ancient Tea-Horse Road. Bamboo lanterns hang from old wooden beams of Southern Shaanxi, while outside the carved windows lies a three-dimensional scroll of wild cherry blossoms and verdant tea terraces🏞

🌟Play | Explore Tea Mountains, Trek Streams, Search for Spring in Qinba
· Hundred-acre Tea Fields: At dawn, tie on your bamboo basket and let your fingers brush against the tender "Ningqiang Sparrow Tongue" tea buds. Tea masters will teach you to moisten your fingers with Han River 💦morning dew before picking to preserve the tea's spirit.
· Traditional Tea Making: Experience up close the 🪵"kill-green, shaping, and baking" process, seal fresh tea in old pottery jars with your personal Hanzhong seal stamp.
· Ancient Town Stroll: Experience the charm of the Tea-Horse Road on Qingmuchuan Old Street, visit the largest Republic-era estate in Southern Shaanxi, and listen to legendary tales of merchant groups.
· Secret Exploration: 🏃♂➡Trek through the mountain's oak forest to "Caochuanzi Stone Forest," where wild peach and dove tree flowers create an epic tale of geology and life among million-year-old submarine glacier relics.

🍜Eat | Qinba Mountain Feast - Wild Elegance with Tea-infused Dishes
· Spring Specials: Cold dressed rapeseed flowers, shepherd's purse dumplings - taste spring in every bite.
· Mountain Spring Flavors: Firewood-stewed braised local pork🍚preserved pork trotters with dried vegetables/preserved meat fried with black beans/fresh tea leaves with local eggs/special bean jelly🥬all ingredients sourced from local fields.
· Elegant Tea Cuisine: A bowl of "tea-steamed sturgeon," where tea soup infuses white fish meat, a serving of "red tea steamed pork," where tea and meat fragrances intertwine.
Paired with tea-flavored wine made from 30-year-old corn liquor.

While city dwellers crowd during Qingming
We're at Qu Family Mansion south of Qinling Mountains
Using tea as our boat, drifting back to slower times