Wuyi Rock Tea is like a pearl of Wu-long Tea with a long history, produced in the rocks of Wuyi Mountain, Cong’an County at the north of Fujian Province. Its main species include Wuyi Narcissus, the Red Robe and so on, among which the Red Robe is the most precious one. It is said that in Ming Dynasty, there was a scholar (provincial graduate) being sick in Wuyi Mountain when he was on the way to take part in the examination held in the capital; then he met a monk who gave him the Red Robe Tea for drinking to cure his acute abdomen pain. The effect was so good that when he hit the Number One Scholar, he came back to Wuyi Mountain and extended his gratitude to the monk. When he knew where the tea trees were planted, he took off the Red Robe he wore as being the Number One Scholar, walked around the tea trees for three circles, and then put the robe on the trees. That is why we now have a tea called “Red Robe”.

The color of Wuyi Rock tea is green-brown in fresh. The tea soup is deep orange, transparent and gorgeous; the edge of tea leaves will become bright-red, and the center of it being light-green and yellow. Small tea pot and tea cups are generally used that can produce the thick fragrant, and you can still smell it even the tea is steeped for 5-6 times.

History of Wuyi Rock Tea
According to the history materials, even from Tang Dynasty the public already regarded Wuyi Rock Tea as a favorite gift. During the period of Song and Yuan Dynasty, it had been listed as “Articles of Tribute”. In Yuan Dynasty, the Baking Bureau and the Imperial Tea Garden had been set-up in Wuyi Mountain. While in the years of Kanxi, Qing Dynasty, Wuyi Rock Tea had been sold throughout the world including the West Europe, North America and South Asia; at that time, the European thought that the Wuyi Rock Tea was the general title of all Chinese tea.

Long time ago Wu Rock Tea had been regarded as the best drink for preserving health and curing diseases. In ancient times Shennong (meaning "Divine Farmer", reputedly teaching the ancients agriculture and medicine) used it to clear away 72 toxic substances; nowadays lots of function of the Tea has been concluded in the endeavor of many doctors from different generations through the clinic experiments, for example, anti-aging, anti-tumor, improving the immunity, preventing the cardiovascular diseases, reducing weight, making beauty, and the protection for urinary organs and digestive system as well.

Wuyi Roak Tea Plantation
The technological processing of Wuyi Rock Tea (Red Robe) in Wuyi Mountain, Fujian has been listed in the catalogue of the First-batch National-level Intangible Culture Heritages in China issued in June 2006 as the exclusive tea species.

Villagers’ Gathering (Caitouhui)
With more than 100 years of history since the foundation, the Gathering is one of the great business events in the folk of Fujian Province. At the beginning the Gathering was held on the Sixth of February of Chinese Lunar Calendar to memorize the farmers’ uprising against the exorbitant taxes and levies during Qing Dynasty, but gradually it became the great trade fair for agriculture products between the local villagers.

Hanshan & Kaishan

Hanshan & Kaishan (Tea God Worship and Commencement of Tea Harvest) are the special conventions of tea peasants in Wuyi Mountain, originated from Yuan Dynasty and held in the Imperial Tea Garden of Wuyi Mountain each time, where there was a high platform in five ci high beside the God (Tongxian) Well called “Hanshan Platform”. Every year the director of county will host the ceremony on the date of “Insects Awaken” (according to the Chinese Lunar Calendar); after that, the gongs and drums will be beaten while the firecrackers sounded and the red candles ignited; the tea peasants would gather by the foot of platform and shout “Tea sprouts! Tea sprouts!” to pray for the harvest and good-quality of Wuyi Rock Tea to the Tea God. Hence the name.

Kaishan is celebrated within three days of “Summer Begins” (Date of Chinese Lunar Calendar). According to the convention, the workers in tea plant will get up early at the dawn on that day and start to keep silence; after the general washing, the supervisor of tea plant will take all workers for cense worship before Yan Taibai (it is said that he was the ancestor of tea industry of Wuyi Mountain); afterwards, the breakfast is served, and all people are led by the special person to go to the tea garden and begin to pick the tea leaves separately. When the sun rises and the due disappears, that special person will distribute the smoke among all tea-picking workers, which means “we can talk now”. Only until this moment is Hanshan ceremony over.