When is the best time to go to the tea cave?

The best time for tea cave: the average annual temperature in Nanping is about 18℃, the highest temperature in July is about 29℃, and the lowest temperature in 1 month is 6℃-9℃. The climate is pleasant all year round. It is worth noting that, like other southeast coastal areas, July-September is the typhoon-prone season every year. Typhoon will bring persistent heavy rain and strong winds, and may lead to natural disasters such as mudslides and landslides. So when you travel to Nanping at this time, you must pay attention to the weather forecast.

Tea cave, also known as Yuhua Cave and Sage Cave, is located in the east of Liuqu. According to legend, this cave is named after Wuyi Tea Jia. There is still an ancient tea tree that has experienced vicissitudes in this cave. In fact, the wonder of the tea cave lies not in the tea, but in its grandeur and locked artistic conception. Climbing up from the stone path in front of Fuhu Rock, there is a stone gate with the words "Proud and Deep Lock" engraved on its forehead. When you enter the stone gate and go through the cave, you will suddenly see a new world. From the cave, you can see the trilogy of Bamboo Shoot Peak, Hidden Screen Peak, Yuhua Peak, Yinqingyan, Tianyou Peak, Zhang Xianfeng and Xianyou Rock. The dangerous cliff standing on the cliff is like a high wall, which surrounds it completely. The only entrance is a stone embankment in the west. People in a hole with an area of only six or seven acres are like sinking into the bottom of the well. Looking up, they can only see the sky around them. As Xu Xiake said, all the peaks are steep and steep, but the peaks below are together, and there is no road outside, so it is more correct than the rocks on the roof. Therefore, people of all ages lived in seclusion in caves, such as Song lived in seclusion in Middle Earth, Zhu of Li in Ming Dynasty, Dong Maoxun's bookstore in Qing Dynasty, and Dong Tiangong's building, editor of Wuyishan Annals. Most of these ancient buildings have disappeared, leaving only the former site of Dong Maoxun's Liu Yun Bookstore. In the northernmost part of the tea cave, there is a fairy bath where the snowflake spring falling from the God Blessed Peak gathers.

According to legend, this pool was once bathed by fairies, hence the name. From Fuhuyan on the east bank of Liuqu to the east, climb up the steps along the stone path sandwiched by bamboo, cross the stone gate and cross the cave, and you will be suddenly enlightened. Look around: to the south, there are bamboo shoots, hidden peaks and yuhua peaks. To the north, Yinqingyan, Tianyoufeng and Zhangxianfeng stand tall. People in a hole, such as the bottom of a trap, look up and see the sky around them. This is a locked tea cave. According to legend, this is the place where the first tea tree in Wuyishan grows. Legend has it that a long time ago, an old man lived by the Jiuqu River in Wuyishan.

He is kind-hearted and helpful. No matter which family has a headache, he always tries his best to help him get rid of it. People in the village respect him very much, and all ages affectionately call him the old man. One summer, there was a disease in the mountains. The old man ran from the east village to the west village all day, busy taking medicine to treat the disease. Because there were many sick people, the old man used up all the herbs he had accumulated at ordinary times, even the herbs in the nearby mountains. The old man was too anxious to eat and sleep. It happened that at this time, Li Auntie, the village chief, came crying and asked him to save Li Shu's acute illness. The old man hurried to see that Li Shu was in a coma with a high fever. If he does not give first aid, his life will be in danger. With many years of experience, the old man knew that fresh chlorophytum was needed to cure the disease, but he couldn't find it anywhere in the village. Without saying anything, the old man hurried home, picked up a medicine hoe and a medicine bag, and went into the mountains to look for chlorophytum. The sun scorched the earth. The old man braved the scorching sun, crossed 36 ridges, waded through a winding stream and entered a canyon.

I saw the peaks on both sides towering into the sky, and the bamboo forest at the foot of the mountain was green and dripping, dyeing the surrounding stone walls red; The stone road is covered with green grass and moss, as if it were covered with a carpet with green patterns. Or from the stone gorge, or spewing out from the rock spring, gurgling down along the foot of the cliff, winding and crystal clear. The breeze blows gently, the bones and muscles are cool, and the old man's summer heat is gone. Looking around, the old man suddenly found several green chlorophytum plants in a cave on the cliff. His spirits lifted up. He tightened his belt and put on sandals. He came forward to find a green vine, grabbed the thick vine and pushed the cliff, and finally climbed to the front of the spider plant. The old man put his feet firmly on the cliff, holding the vines in one hand and reaching out to pick the chlorophytum in the other. One, two, three, the sun stung the old man's head like a needle. The old man was dizzy for a while, and his hands and feet were loose, so he fell off a high cliff and fainted.

Just then, with a breeze, an old man with a good face floated down the mountain stream in a white crane, waving a whip back and forth at the old man. Once the old man breathed, twice his face was covered with blood, and three times he opened his eyes slightly. The old man Hefa saw the old man looking at himself in amazement and said, I am Wuyi, who is in charge of Crane Immortal. I have always known that you are warm-hearted and kind, collecting medicines and treating diseases for the people. I just saw your life die in the cloud, and I came to save you. Say that finish, accused of Crane Immortal helped the old man to the crane's back, and with a wave of his whip, the crane floated up and immediately landed in front of a big stone, with four Chinese characters locked on his forehead. The fairy helped the old man get the crane down, only to see the fairy click with a whip and the stone gate slowly opened. The fairy took the old man into the stone gate and passed through the cave, and a magnificent palace appeared in front of him.

The fairy took the old man across the hall, walked into a quiet and elegant room, took down a jade gourd from the wall, opened the mouth of the gourd, and poured out a cup of jade liquid and nectar for the old man to drink. The old man took it and it was on his lips. He felt a fragrance. The aroma rushed into my throat, and I felt light and refreshed, and my pain was completely gone, and my heart was bright. The old man quickly asked, what magic medicine is this? This is fairy tea dew. It can cure diseases, refresh, relieve summer heat and stop dysentery. The fairy also said that I have a kind of fairy tea in this garden for you. When the tea tree grows up, you cut off the branches and insert them into the soil, forming a tea forest. After that, the old man picked up the tea tree and bowed his thanks. Suddenly, with a bang, several golden lights flashed in front of me, and the immortal disappeared and the palace disappeared. When the old man woke up from his dream, he looked around and found himself sitting in a cave with a tea tree in front of him. The old man knew that he had met a fairy.

The old man followed the fairy's instructions, planted fairy tea trees in front of the cave, watered them with snowflake spring water, picked some tea conveniently, and arrived at Li Shu's house anxiously in the evening. The old man quickly mashed the tea and handed it to Li Shu. Li Shu recovered in less than an hour. Li Shu thanked and praised again and again, and the old man's heart was full of sweetness. He told Li Shu how he went up the mountain to collect herbs and meet the immortals. The next day, he took the whole village into the mountains to see the fairy tea tree, and also taught everyone the pruning and cultivation methods of the tea tree taught by the fairy. People in the village are very happy. We dug up the flat ground in the cave and planted tea branches. The next spring, tall and big tea trees grew in the cave. In a few years, the cave has become a lush tea garden. Later, people did not forget the origin of Wuyishan tea tree, and carved the word "tea hole" on the rock wall where the first tea tree grew.