The Humanistic History of Tea Records

Chaji villagers, nine times out of ten surnamed Cha. According to genealogy records, the old ancestor of Cha surnamed Ji was originally named. During the Zhou Dynasty, he was named Cha Di in Jiyang, Shandong Province, and his surname was changed from Ji to Cha. Trainee tea spread from Shandong, its birthplace, to Anhui, and then from Anhui to Jiangsu, and gradually spread to Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Yunnan, Guangdong, Fujian and other places with Taixian County in Jiangsu as the center. During the reign of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, Lishi Tea began to move from Fujian to Taiwan Province to settle down.

According to "Cha's Genealogy", in the third year of Sui Daye, the 39th ancestor Cha Wenxi was appointed as the secretariat of Xuanzhou, Anhui. After Tang Gaozu acceded to the throne, he also served as the secretariat of Chizhou. From then on, he traveled back and forth between the two places, and later he often went through Chaji and was attracted by the beautiful landscape and excellent feng shui location here. After Tang Wude became an official for eight years, he settled in the tea village and began to open up villages (1380 years ago).

Wen xigong attached importance to education, strictly governed his family, treated others with courtesy and cultivated learning for future generations. Many people became officials. During Song Xuanhe's reign, Chayuan, the 59th ancestor, was appointed as the capital of Zhejiang, and was later promoted to Zhengqing of Guanglu Temple. His descendants traveled all the year round to do business in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and gradually opened up new villages in Haining, Zhejiang, Wuyuan, Jiangxi and Danyang, Jiangsu. For example, Cha Shibiao, a painter of Xin 'an School, and Cha Liang Yong, a master of martial arts novels, are all ethnic minorities.

Chaji, with its beautiful landscape and profound cultural background, has always attracted many literati. In the 14th year of Tang Tianbao (755), the great poet Li Baiyou visited Taohuatan. At the invitation of Zha graphite (Zhong Shulang and Jiao Shulang), the 45th ancestor of Chaji, he came to live in Bishan of Chaji for several days. Fascinated by the mountains and rivers here, he said to Cha, "The two of them are enjoying flowers on the mountain, one after another. I am drunk and sleepy, but you don't laugh." The Ming dynasty intended to hold the piano. " Later, he wrote a timeless quatrain, "Ask me what I want to live in the blue mountains, but smile without answering my heart. The peach blossoms are exhausted, and the world is not human."

In the year of Song Yiyou (A.D. 1 174), Xu Shi, the prime minister of the Southern Song Dynasty, came to Shimen, Chacun Village and wrote a poem on the cliff: "There are thin vegetable fields in the mountains, which have been in and out of here for 50 years. After crossing Shu Road on both sides of the strait, it contains different springs at ten degrees downstream. Deer gate was not content with peace, and its teeth were once worn by obstacles. In the evening, Buyi Qiuqiling, the romantic moon in Luanchuan is still lingering. " Chaji's pastoral scenery and simple and quiet folk customs can be seen.

The existing Chaji still attracts many scholars, painters, photographers and ordinary tourists at home and abroad with its unique geographical environment, ancient architectural style, almost desolate but antique and almost primitive flavor. I believe that with the improvement of traffic, Chaji will be known to more people.