Fujian to Host Tea Cultural FestivalA Tea Cultural Tourism Festival will be held from December 17-19 in Anxi County in east China's Fujian Province.An official from the event's sponsor, the Fujian provincial tourism bureau, said here today that the festival will include a series of tea-related cultural and tourism activities, including academic seminars, folk custom shows and tea ceremony performance and art exhibitions, he said, adding that a tea trade fair will also be hosted during the three-day festival. The fair will provide a chance for domestic and overseas visitors and businessmen to learn about tourism sites, tea culture as well as to conduct industrial and trade cooperation, the official said. Anxi, with a tea-raising tradition dating back to the Tang Dynasty (618-907), is the birthplace of "Tieguanyin"-- a famous kind of black tea. With an annual production volume of 15,000 tons and a 250,000 mu (16,700 ha) tea field, the county is China's largest production base of oolong tea. |
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