Tea Alley is a bustling street in the old city, next to the "Yunwu Mountain Tea Workshop" operated by the farm. Because of its tea and the stage located in the alley, it has become popular, and compared with the fishy smell of the nearby fish alley, there is more hedonistic leisure and elegance here.

Speaking of which, no matter how elegant things are, they also start from daily needs, so it has always remained in the lives of the people in the old city.

Tea Alley was formerly known as Bull Market Alley. At that time, merchants from the counties along the Fushui and other places brought in large numbers of cattle to trade here. As more and more people come to trade here, many people are pulling or pulling, often sweating, dry mouth, and need to drink tea and water to quench their hunger and thirst.

The residents who live here all year round responded to the demand and opened a teahouse. As a result, some early tea shops appeared in the alleys and alleys of this lane, and some restaurants and inns also sprung up. Tea leaves appear light, elegant, clean, and loved by people. In this way, everyone changed the name of Niushi Alley to Tea Alley. Since then, the bull market has subsided.

From the middle and late Ming Dynasty, tea alleys were gradually formed, mainly tea business, and later became more and more famous, and has a history of several hundred years.

Speaking of tea, Nanyi County has been an important tea-producing area since ancient times. In summer, you need to drink tea, in winter, you like to eat chili peppers to drive away the cold, you also need to drink tea after meals, and guests come to the house to fill tea, and so on. People in Nanyi County and along the Fu River drink tea in a variety of ways, each with its own characteristics.

Tea Alley doesn't just sell tea, its ancestors started from small teahouses. From the beginning of the street to a few seats, to the later storefront to set up a few tables of eight immortals, put a few stools, make a few pots of cold and hot tea, and add some peanuts and candies and other non-staple foods.

With industrialization, there are more patterns, and the variety of tea varieties has increased. There are sesame bean tea, chrysanthemum tea, ginger salt tea, sugar tea, yellow tea, black tea, green tea, black tea, black tea, etc. The teahouse is furnished with deck chairs, where customers can sit and lie down and soak all day long. This gave birth to another side hustle – storytelling.

Those storytellers have excellent eloquence, and they all tell heroic stories such as the Three Kingdoms, Water Margin, and Journey to the West. Later, the Bachu opera troupe was stationed, and the tea alley became a famous alley.

Originally, an old tea garden was changed into an opera garden in the tea alley, which was used as a performance venue for the Bachu opera troupe. Because the Bachu opera troupe used to go to the village to perform in the alleys in the early years, or to perform in the towns and villages of Linxian County, it was influential for a while, and people called the drama sung by the troupe as the flower drum opera.

The members of the Bachu opera troupe are not fixed, they belong to the loose type, although they were founded earlier, but there has been no fixed performance venue, and since then there has been a place to settle. Later, the troupe was rebuilt several times, and it has today's scale. As a local opera in the Jingshan area, Flower Drum Opera has strong local characteristics and is deeply loved by the locals.

Since then, there has been an endless stream of people who come to the tea alley to watch the play, and together with the tea shops around the theater, the business has become more and more prosperous, and the teahouses have opened more and more, and the alley has become a veritable tea alley.

In short, tea drinkers can not only swallow clouds and spit out fog, talk to their heart's content, but also listen to operas, drink tea, and pass the time, and this teahouse has become a good place for locals and outsiders to relax and recreation.

Nowadays, the tea alley is small and old, but the business is not bad, because it connects the life of the people in the ancient city and the thick history of the ancient city.

Tea Alley is one of the places that Nong Tianyi loved to go to when he was a teenager. To put it bluntly, it is to listen to the storyteller. To drink tea, it is readily available at home.

On this day, Wu Qing accompanied Nong Tianyi to the tea alley to listen to the story, and walked slowly along the bluestone pavement, with mostly bungalows on both sides, and sometimes two-story buildings. The fragrance of tea is accompanied by the sound of storytelling, which is a very pleasant thing.

After sitting down, Nong Tianyi said, "Mom, it's going to start in a while." ”

Wu Qing said "oh", ordered a bowl of tea and some snacks, and sat in the middle to the right. When Nong Tianqin grew up, she also liked to join in the fun, she also liked to listen to stories, and she also loved to listen to the legendary stories of ancient heroes such as the Three Kingdoms.

Nowadays, some merchants who do business here have converted their bungalows into two-storey houses for business and residence, and the commercial economy has gradually flourished.

After a while, the storyteller appeared in front of the small wooden platform, wearing a long shirt and a horse coat, walking as if he was telling a story, shaking his head and twisting his body, showing a kind of style.

The storyteller stood in the middle of the wooden table, and in front of him lay a half-man-high wooden table, and at this moment, as the wooden planks slammed on the table, the sound of wooden striking, which had been chirping just now, was now quiet. Everyone is looking forward to it.

Today, I am talking about a section in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". After the opening remarks, the storyteller talked about the emotional place, or the sad place, or the sword light and sword shadow, and the expression was either clear and surging, gentle wind and drizzle, or dragon flying and phoenix dancing, hearty, and the spitting fishy man flew sideways immediately......

Wu Qing had a hard time coming out, sitting idly, drinking tea, Nong Tian listened quite attentively, only occasionally eating some melon seeds and peanuts, and the two of them followed the story explained by the storyteller, and the rhythm of advancement, or peaceful, or encouraging, or agitated, or excited......

Occasionally, the cries of small traders and hawkers make trouble from it, which makes people uneasy to hear, and at this time, Nong Tianyi will also say: "These people are really annoying." ”

Wu Qing just smiled. Nong Tianqin was quite well-behaved, sitting quietly next to his mother, concentrating on listening to the story.

After a while, for hours, they left with the flow of people.

Wu Qing asked: "Then why did Zhuge Liang tear and kill the horse?" ”

Nong Tianyi has his own opinion: "Ma Jian is boring to himself, who let him be smart." ”

Wu Qing let out an "ah".

Wu Qing asked again: "Then why was Zhuge Liang able to form the momentum of the Three Kingdoms?"

Nong Tian thought for a while and said: "Zhuge Liang is good at planning, taking advantage of the situation, and slowly forming a situation of the three kingdoms. ”

At this moment, a beggar in rags appeared beside them, and the beggar said, "All right, all right." ”

When Nong Tian saw it one by one, he hurriedly took out the broken silver and handed it to the beggar.

The beggar took the broken silver, quickly kowtowed to thank him, and said repeatedly: "The Bodhisattva bless you, you are rich and noble, and you will be promoted and rich." ”

Wu Qing looked at his son and smiled. Nong Tianqin looked at the ragged beggar curiously, and her eyes flashed.

At this time, they passed by an ancient city wall, on which red flowers could be seen swaying in the wind. At this time, if it is in the house of a villager in the mountains, the wattle must have grown into a fence and surrounded the courtyard. The yellow wattles on the mountain are soft and soft, and when spring comes, the purple flowers will open wantonly, bloom vigorously, and grow endlessly.

Wu Qing pointed to the thorn on the ancient city wall and said, "Tianyi, look how beautiful the vitex flowers are." ”

Nong Tianyi looked over and said, "What Mr. Qi said, Jing Tiao is related to the state of Chu. ”

Wu Qing paused, and read sentence by sentence: "The road is blue, with the mountains and forests, in the Jing Mountain, overcoming thorns and thorns, and the rise and fall are replaced." ”

Nong Tianyi said repeatedly: "Mom, that's what Mr. Qi said. ”

Wu Qing smiled knowingly.

Tea Alley gets its name from tea. His "Tale of the Wind and Soil" says: "...... Residents suffer from diarrhoea and malaria every summer and autumn, all of which are caused by summer heat. Therefore, this tea alley has been able to soak the past with cups of tea in Jingshan for a long time, and comfort people's ordinary days with a wisp of tea fragrance.

Jingshan is suitable for the growth of tea, and tea was originally used as a kind of medicinal material in ancient China, and later people realized that tea can not only cure diseases, but also can clear heat and quench thirst, awaken the brain and refresh the mind, help food and digestion, and is rich in fragrance, so it has developed into a drink suitable for all ages. This is great wisdom!

So he began to plant and harvest in large quantities, and gradually developed the habit of drinking tea. Therefore, people in Jingshan like to drink tea, which is caused by the geographical environment and climate. Therefore, the demand for tea is increasing day by day, and the tea planting area is getting larger and larger, so this tea alley has tenacious vitality.

Therefore, "Tea Lane, west of Wuyi Lane, east of Longwang Pavilion, 280 steps long." ”