If you want to understand how a barren mountain in Wanyuan Village in Hexian County has become a row of green tea seedlings, you have to mention a character - Wang Xingjia, the founder of the Wanyuan White Tea Base. Winding up along the mountain road, step by step closer to the white tea base, the story of Wang Xingjia is also a little clearer.
(The picture shows Wang Xingjia working in the field)
Gu Xiaojia, xing everyone
Wang Xingjia initially worked with relatives in the steel bar business in other places, and later the relatives turned to tea planting, and he also followed along, thus breaking the fate with tea. Compared with relatives who chose the address of the tea factory in Hanshan County, which already has a complete tea industry, Wang Xingjia built the tea factory in hexian Wanyuan Village, which is only a barren mountain, which is a somewhat unusual choice. When asked why he gave up the existing Hanshan County and chose to start from scratch in Wanyuan Village, the "doer" whose nails were blackened by the mud and his skin became rough due to the blazing sun replied simply and simply: "My home is here, and my parents are old and need to be taken care of." "When Wang Xingjia faces future choices, his first reaction is not a shortcut to his career, but his elderly parents, who want to fulfill the responsibility of a son and shoulder the responsibility of the family.
While Wang Xingjia took care of his own small family, he also invisibly helped the "everyone" in his hometown. The white tea base has increased the village's collective economic income through shareholding, land circulation, base work, etc., enriched the characteristic industries of Shanhou Town, and become a prominent "help stick" for the rural revitalization of the area. Wang Xing's family, as its name suggests, has taken care of his small family with firm choices and prospered with common people.
Start a business first, then innovate
Less experience growing tea? Learn from scratch. At the beginning of the opening of tea planting, in order to learn the mature and complete planting technology and industrial model of other places, Wang Xingjia made many trips back and forth between his own tea garden and Anji, Zhejiang, where white tea originated, and specially invited technical experts to guide the series of work of the tea garden. How to plant saplings with high survival rate? How to fertilize most efficiently? How to weed and water? Every seemingly simple task requires Wang Xingjia to invest 100% of his efforts - only by learning the existing technology thoroughly, it is possible to achieve personalized innovation.
Today, in a 400-square-meter drying house built by the hexian government, Wang Xingjia has invested more than 200,000 yuan in the introduction of tea-making equipment, which has greatly improved the efficiency and quality of tea making. At the same time, Wang Xingjia's innovative "first year planting, next year management, three years of tea picking" tea mountain business model according to the actual situation of Wanyuan Village is also working well and has been well received by the industry.
(Villagers spray pesticides in tea plantations)
Be a good person, do good things
"Treat people kindly, and if you have the ability, do something good", this is Wang Jiaxing's code of conduct.
In addition to receiving government subsidies and subsidies, they also have the desire to go out to work to subsidize their families, but due to the restrictions of age and physical conditions, there are very few enterprises willing to accept their employment.
As a native of Wanyuan Village, Wang Jiaxing "can help" for the neighbors with family difficulties, "the tea garden needs people, if you can help the villagers with difficulties, there is no reason not to help." Wang Xingjia led the white tea base to take the initiative to respond to the government's call, and actively accepted the employment of poor households in the surrounding areas, in order to facilitate the villagers who live a little farther away from the tea garden to work, Wang Xingjia always got up early in the morning to drive to each family, one after another, and in the hot season, Wang Xingjia often iced a basket of watermelons in the base for everyone to relieve the heat, "Be a useful person, and then take care of this tea garden, it is enough for me." ”
Suffer first, then "return to sweetness"
For Wang Xingjia, who went out to study art at the age of 19, suffering hardships is as common as eating. Looking at the four hundred acres of tea fields in the mountains, Wang Xingjia said with his hands covered with cocoons, "If you want tea to be sweet, people have to be bitter first." In 2002, Wang Jiaxing changed his career to start a steel bar business, and after several years of precipitation, the business gradually prospered. In 2016, in order to build a white tea base in Wanyuan Village, he sold the property he had just purchased in Nanjing, and "planted" his savings into this barren mountain in his hometown.
(Wang Xingjia with his tea)
Talking about the future development of the tea garden, Wang Xingjia said that there are still some hurdles to overcome to achieve his goals, "No matter how tired you are, you have to do it, and you can't do it." This year is the 6th year of the establishment of the tea base, for many years, Wang Xingjia and his lover Dai Yongqin almost lived in the mountains, "all year round can only rest for the two or three days of the New Year", to the critical period of tea picking is "a few days and nights without sleep" - if they want the tea of this mountain to achieve "return to sweetness", they have to grit their teeth and swallow these bitterness, in order to just develop the white tea base better and better.
The story of Wang Xingjia and Chashan continues, and his quality is like the leaves of white tea, forever full of it.
Text/Lang Min, Wu Di
Photo: Fan Liping and Li Changcheng