# Chashan is far away in time By [JoeRoy](https://paragraph.com/@joeroy-2) · 2022-03-07 --- After entering the navigation of “Jiu’An ancient tea garden” in Gaode map, I found that this tea garden thousands of years ago is only 12.5km away from guanshanhu District of Guiyang City, where I live. It is a very easy destination. How did the Millennium tea mountain and the people who have multiplied from generation to generation achieve each other in the long river of time? Such a whim prompted me to spy on it at the weekend. Jiulongshan tea farm in Jiu’An Township Driving on the winding rural road, all the way up and down the slope, meet and let the car pass through the unknown village, and the green tea mountain will float out of front of you. The gate fence of Jiu’An ancient tea garden stands beside the township road and goes in along the asphalt road. On one side of the road is tea mountain and on the other side is white wall dwellings. The village is quiet and tidy. I was looking for the place of the ancient tea garden when a young man walked by with a bamboo basket on his shoulder. I asked him the way, and he said shyly, “it’s right ahead, just turn a corner.” Li Kaiyang is picking tea The young man’s name is Li Kaiyang. He is a sophomore of Guizhou Light Industry Vocational and technical college. Since the school hasn’t started yet, he has to help his family pick tea these days. We talked as we walked and took a turn to the ancient tea garden. Walking through a path full of tea trees, the ancient tea garden suddenly appeared in front of us. Many local farmers were busy in the tea garden, and Kaiyang’s father was one of them. “This one goes there. This one is my tea tree.” Kaiyang’s father told me that the raw tea picked from the ancient tea tree is about 200 yuan a catty, and the cooked tea made is 2000 yuan a catty. Your tea company can sell it for 20000 yuan a catty after acquisition and processing, and almost all local villagers have the tradition of making and drinking tea. Urban people who experience tea picking in the ancient tea garden Like many young people, Li Kaiyang is not so keen on tea, although he is very skilled in picking tea. “People in the village like tea, don’t they?” I asked him. “No, I don’t like tea very much.” Kaiyang is still very shy. “Yo! You don’t like tea?” A nearby villager who was watching Kaiyang picking tea joked. “I really don’t like it that much.” Kaiyang retorted. Between asking and answering, Kaiyang has picked a lot of tea. Under the guidance of Kaiyang, I went to the tea tree called tea king to find out. The monument of “tea king” stands in front of the tea tree, showing the king’s style. Brother he’s wife introduced the tea king tea tree to the reporter Elder brother he, a villager who is picking tea, told me that this tea tree belongs to his family, and the tea king has a history of more than 2000 years. (more than 1000 years) “The taste of ancient tea trees is better than that of ordinary tea trees. You can make more tea.” Big brother he said that he is in his 60s this year. Maybe because he likes drinking tea, he feels better than his peers. Brother he’s wife is also busy. While picking, he said to me, “in fact, we don’t like to eat tender tea ourselves. This kind of tea doesn’t soak and tastes mellow.” “Do you like tea?” I asked her, “yes, the whole village likes tea. We use tea to make and cook.” Brother he’s wife said proudly, “his father is 91 years old now. He has been driving tea every day recently. He is in good health. It’s all because he likes drinking tea.” “In fact, you look very young.” I told her that she suddenly covered her mouth and smiled, “not now. I don’t dress up for picking tea every day. Don’t shoot me.” Laughter came from the “tea king” not far away. When I came closer, it turned out that a group of adults and children were picking tea. They are teachers and students from a school in Guiyang. They are carrying out interesting tea picking activities. Children picking tea in the ancient tea garden Facing the camera, a little boy holding a small bamboo basket kept selling cute and showed me his tea picking achievements. “Do you like tea?” I asked him. “I like the tea with fruit.” The “green tea berry” in his mouth, I think, may be a modern beverage, which barely belongs to tea. I suddenly feel that the ancient tea garden at the moment is very wonderful. Three generations, old, middle-aged and young, continue to write the story of the ancient tea tree in a common space. Time pays off the tea man. In the long river of time, tea and people may achieve and thrive on each other in this way. Guizhou daily contemporary financial media reporter Xu shaoting --- *Originally published on [JoeRoy](https://paragraph.com/@joeroy-2/chashan-is-far-away-in-time)*