Is it beautiful? Yes, it's beautiful.
I mean yoga is beautiful, ballet is beautiful, and spring tea is also beautiful. Of course, these girls are also very beautiful. But the combination of this matter does not seem so beautiful. In-depth study of the news, you should know that this is the rematch scene of the "Tree House Girl" global breakout competition held by a company, and it is a huge and well-designed exhibition activity. This can't help but remind me of those things that have been maliciously hyped in a cultural packaging coat, such as tea picking by girls with bursting breasts, tea picking by pure virgins and tea picking with milk fragrance.
Strictly speaking, these things not only have no benefit to the tea industry, but have brought serious harm to the tea industry. China tea culture has a long history and has always been one of the important representatives of China's excellent traditional culture. These people often put on a show in the name of "the most beautiful tea pickers in the world", which is the biggest insult to the hardest group of people in the world-tea farmers, and also the most malicious disrespect for Chinese traditional tea culture.
I have said many times that tea farmers can be counted as one of the hardest people in the world. Today, I want to say that the most beautiful tea pickers in the world are by no means showmen who are dancing ballet, doing yoga, bursting breasts or picking tea with virgins. The most beautiful tea-picking woman in the world is our mother, a hardworking and industrious mother.
Yuexi County, our hometown, is a small mountainous county that has been rated as a national poverty-stricken county for many years. There are more than 400,000 people living in this small county, most of whom can be called tea farmers. Over the years, with the gradual development of the economy and the opening of highways, the outside world has become more and more exciting and gratifying, so most young people and even middle-aged people have left their hometowns, or studied, or worked, or engaged in some big or small businesses. Anyway, they have left the mountain and never want to go back. Or you want to go back, but you can't go back because of big and small things in work and study. In a blink of an eye, the villagers finally became city dwellers, and from the outside, they could no longer see any difference.
There are two ways to look at things. First, I'm going home for the Spring Festival. The city will become an empty city, and the mountain village will be lively and noisy again. At this time, you will see that both city people and mountain people can handle it. Second, the spring tea season. Anhui produces a lot of tea, especially in most areas of southern Anhui and western Anhui, and has its own characteristic tea. Anhui people drink more tea, especially hometown tea. If you meet a friend who says that Cuilan Yuexi is my favorite, he is probably from Anqing.
Of course, this is beside the point. Let's continue to tell the story of the most beautiful tea pickers in the world.
In Yuexi, almost every family has such an acre of camellia. After decades of development and efforts, Cuilan Yuexi has become more and more famous and its tea is more and more beautiful, which is also attributed to tea pickers. Between Qingming and Grain Rain, it is the golden time and the busiest season for tea picking. As mentioned earlier, the young and middle-aged laborers in Yuexi are mostly in other cities, leaving behind the elderly and children who are studying in primary schools. When picking tea, children can't count on it, and the most tea can only count on mothers in their 500 s.
A little after five o'clock every morning, the cock crows three times. At dawn, my mother will get up, prepare to cook and feed the pigs to the chickens and ducks. After all this, it's only six o'clock, and my mother will go out to pick tea with dry food on her arm. There are many teas at home, which can't be picked by my parents at all, but there is no way. The villagers in Shiliba Village, if they have tea, have to take care of their own tea gardens. No matter how much it costs, you can't ask others to help you choose. So, my mother had to squeeze out all the time to pick tea. She didn't even go home for lunch, so she ate some dry food with hot water, which could save 1 hour and pick more tea. In the tea-picking season, my mother has to work like this every day 10 hours. Because of the repeated actions of bending over and raising her head when picking tea, my mother's cervical spine and back have fallen behind and she can't sleep all night. Even so, the next morning, my mother gritted her teeth and insisted on getting up and continuing her day's work.
This is the most beautiful image of tea pickers in my heart. She is not only my mother, but also the mother of all our tea sellers and even tea drinkers. Her image stood there, impartial and never giving up. She doesn't seem to know how to write the word hard, and she doesn't know what the word tired looks like. She has been there all the time, doing everything silently, never saying bitterness or tiredness, like a moving sculpture, determined and beautiful.