Jigongshan Scenic Area (1982 approved by the state 1)
Henan Xinyang Maojian tea is one of the top ten famous teas in China with a long history. According to legend, in Chashan, the birthplace of Xinyang Maojian, a famous tea in Henan Province, a bird with a sharp mouth, big eyes and bright yellow feathers can be seen everywhere. This kind of bird sounds good, because it likes to squat in the tea forest to catch tea bugs, and tea farmers like it very much. It is said that the tall and big old tea tree on Chashan survived because of the seeds brought by this bird.
There is a girl named Spring Valley with anxiety in her eyes. She ran around looking for someone who could treat the villagers.
On this day, Chungu met an old man collecting herbs in Cai Yun and told him his difficulties. Hearing this, the old man sighed, thought for a while and told the girl an anecdote told by the older generation: during the flood season, Shennong traveled to many places, tasted all kinds of herbs and found a precious tree. The leaves of this tree are all treasures. As long as people drink the soup fried with it, they will feel refreshed, exhausted and easily get rid of all diseases. Where is this precious tree? The old man can't tell. He only heard that he can find it by going southwest, climbing 99 mountains and crossing 99 rivers.
In order to rescue the villagers, Chungu went through difficulties and obstacles and overcame many difficulties, and finally climbed 99 mountains and crossed 99 rivers. But at this moment, she also got a terrible plague and fell beside the mountain spring. The magical mountain spring sent a floating leaf into the girl's mouth. Suddenly, Spring Valley woke up. I not only woke up, but also felt refreshed and energetic! Chungu took the leaves out of her mouth. She thought, this must be the leaves of that precious tree! So, I walked along the mountain spring to the mountain. Sure enough, at the end of spring, a big tree was found on the top of the mountain. Its leaves were exactly the same as those of Ye Er who saved her life. Chungu was so happy that she climbed the tree, picked a golden seed and couldn't help watching it sing. Her singing shocked an old man with silver beard and hair. He is the Shennong who everyone admires. Shennong went to Spring Valley, smoothed his beard and looked at the girl. She said approvingly, "You are really a kind girl. This tree is called tea tree. The seeds are picked and must be planted in the soil within ten days to survive! " Spring Valley thought: Oh, no! When I came to find the treasure tree, it was already scheduled to 998 1 day. How to send it back in ten days? I cried sadly. Her tears touched the old Shennong man and said, "Good Lai Niang, don't be sad, I'll find a way for you!" " "I saw him take out his magic whip and beep twice. The beautiful spring valley immediately turned into a little thrush with a sharp mouth, big eyes and bright yellow feathers all over. Shennong said to the little thrush, "You should fly back quickly, and when the tea seeds are planted and the buds are exposed, just hold back your laughter and cry sadly as you did just now, and you will return to the original appearance." Spring valley fluttered its wings and nodded happily, indicating that it understood. Then, he bid farewell to Shennong, picked up the golden tea seed and flew to the sky.
The little thrush flies towards the northwest, towards her hometown and straight ahead. She has flown over ninety-nine mountains and ninety-nine rivers. She is about to fly to Cai Yun and fly back to her hometown. When she saw the scenery of her hometown under her feet, she thought that the villagers would be saved soon, so she was very happy. She wanted to sing a song, but as soon as she spoke, the golden tea seeds fell. She hurriedly made a "seagull turn over" and jumped out of the air. However, it was already late, and the precious tea seeds fell on the steep cliff and rolled into the deep cracks in the stone. The little thrush pecks with his mouth, but he can't peck; You can't catch it with your claws. He used his quick wits to peck off a morning glory with his mouth, which turned into a delicate little basket. The little thrush flew down the mountain with a small basket in his mouth to fill the soil, then flew up the mountain, poured it into the gap and buried the tea seeds one by one. Soil, no water. The morning glory she held turned into a delicate bucket. She flew to the mountain spring again, took the mountain spring water, poured it on the soil in the crevice, and made the soil in the crevice wet. In a blink of an eye, a green tea seedling emerged from the soil, and the little thrush was so happy that he forgot Shennong's instructions. He didn't cry, but smiled. Besides, by this time, she had exhausted all her strength and strength, fainted in the tea seedlings and turned into a bird-like stone.
It's really strange to say that this tea seed germinated immediately after being buried and watered, and grew up when it saw the wind, and soon grew into a tall and big tea tree. One day, it was raining heavily on the mountain. The rain on the big tea tree dripped on the small thrush-changed stone, and a morning glory sprouted on the stone. Soon, it caught the vine, hit the bone and opened a morning glory bigger than a sunflower. The stigma in the stamens turned into golden eggs, broke out of their shells and flew out of a group of small thrushes with sharp mouths, big eyes and bright yellow feathers. The little thrush flew into the sky, circled the big tea tree three times and landed on the branch. They pecked off a piece of tea with their mouths and flew to the village. They put the tea in their mouths into the mouths of people with plague, and the patients immediately "cured the disease". Since then, people know that this precious camellia tree can cure diseases, and everyone loves it very much. With more and more people planting tea trees, patches of tea gardens and tea mountains began to appear here. Tea farmers named this little thrush "Tea Sister Thrush" in order not to forget to turn the bird into a kind of tea.
Tea thrush is a good assistant for tea farmers. When pests grow on tea trees, they help tea farmers catch them and often go to places where there are no tea trees with golden tea seeds in their hands. Every time spring tea is mined, groups of girls come to Chashan to pick tea, and the tea sister thrush and the girls sing beautiful songs together. People say: Tea girl thrush is like tea girl, and tea girl thrush is like tea girl!
There are Xinyang Tea God Festival and Temple Fair in both urban and rural areas.
Temple fair, also known as crop market, is formed by the material conditions of the market, followed by the religious and cultural background. Before the founding of New China, there were many temples in Xinyang both in urban and rural areas, and each temple held a ceremony of offering sacrifices to the gods and buddhas regularly, which was called the Incense Fair. Some incense sticks will gradually become "crop fairs", which are temple fairs. At that time, agriculture, industry and commerce will regularly participate in trade fairs and hold related cultural performances, such as dances, operas and flower exhibitions.
Traditional ancient fairs (temple fairs, incense fairs) are a form of assembly trade, but they are larger than the usual assembly trade, with more commodities, and they are mostly held in the slack season before the wheat harvest, which has distinct seasonal characteristics. Generally speaking, the ancient festivals held in the first month and February mainly focus on burning incense and playing with lights; The ancient fairs held in March and April mainly sold wheat harvesting tools and exchanged agricultural and sideline products. The duration of temple fairs ranges from 1 day to more than one week, mostly 3 to 5 days.
Temple fairs in the 1980s were purely material exchanges. However, in recent years, temple fairs and cultural activities in some places have become more active and prominent. For example, the Wumatan Temple Fair in Xinxian County in March of the lunar calendar attracted hundreds of thousands of people from Hubei, Henan and Anhui provinces for commodity trading and cultural activities, and became a mega-temple fair in southern Henan.
Lingshan Temple Fair: Lingshan Temple Fair was held in Lingshan Temple, Tongxin Village, Segang Town, luoshan county. Every year from the first day of March to the sixth day of March in the lunar calendar, it is a traditional temple fair festival in Lingshan. During the temple fair, thousands of men and women came all the way to Lingshan to climb mountains, worship and visit. Lingshan Temple Fair has a long history. It originated in the Tang Dynasty and flourished in the Ming Dynasty. During the prosperous Tang Dynasty, the country was rich and the people were strong, Buddhism was popularized, and temples were widely built all over the country. After Princess Channing, the daughter of Emperor Tang Ming, came to Lingshan to become a monk, she expanded Lingshan Temple. With the increasing number of pilgrims coming to Lingshan on the third day of the third lunar month, over time, the temple fair on the third day of the third lunar month was formed and has been passed down to this day. In the third year of Hongwu (A.D. 1370), Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming emperor, thanked the monks of Lingshan Temple for their kind escort, and led hundreds of civil and military officials to Lingshan on the third day of the third lunar month to make incense and make a wish. Su Dongpo, a great writer in the Northern Song Dynasty, also left a poem for the Lingshan Temple Fair: "The Lingshan Temple Fair is still there, and the eight schools are still thriving." Since the reform and opening up, with the implementation of the national religious policy and the rapid development of tourism, religious and cultural tourism has become a major theme of tourism in China. Lingshan Temple Fair has higher and higher specifications, more diverse forms and richer contents. The characteristics are more prominent. The current Lingshan Temple Fair is a traditional folk festival integrating mountaineering, pilgrimage, sightseeing, folk customs and folk art, which is quite influential in southern Henan and Hubei. Lingshan Temple Fair is held regularly every year, with 200,000 visitors every year.
In addition, there are Jinlanshan Township Club,
Guanyin temple fair