非洲媒体团体验中国茶文化

师锋涛

中国茶道成为“中非”文化交流的桥梁纽带。近日，由埃塞俄比亚、加纳、肯尼亚、喀麦隆、津巴布韦、纳米比亚等15个非洲国家的24位资深传媒界官员组成的新闻采访团来浙江采云间茶业公司访茶问道。

坦桑尼亚驻华宣传大使Charles、塞拉利昂总统外宣办公室高级秘书Lamina、加纳《每日写真日报》社长Ayeboafoh、肯尼亚人民媒体集团副总编Eric Oduor等媒体人员一行,先后聆听了茶文化知识讲座，观赏了中国特色的茶艺冲泡，参观了采云间九峰生态茶园并感受采茶体验、茶艺冲泡体验等一系列活动，其博大精深的中国茶文化深受媒体团的称赞。

文化交流，纵谈以茶养生

在茶文化交流会上，国家高级茶艺师郑建美为非洲媒体团成员就中华茶的起源、种植、生产加工、茶文化及茶健康等方面作了知识讲座。特殊的学员、温雅的讲师，使得茶座氛围极其融洽，在讲座过程中媒体团围绕“茶健康、茶减肥”话题积极展开讨论。

来自肯尼亚的Oduor先生幽默地说：“我有220英磅（約200斤），若喝绿茶可以减肥，像我需要喝多长时间？”茶艺师说：“坚持喝绿茶可清理肠道，利于身体健康，可有效控制体重，但并非减肥的灵丹妙药……”茶艺师的趣味解说，让媒体团员进一步了解中国语言的艺术性和茶的保健价值。

茶艺展示，体验茶文化博大精深

茶文化交流会后，“采云间”的茶艺姑娘们以其娴熟、优雅的动作，把具有中国特色的婺州举岩茶冲泡技艺一遍又一遍地演示出來，让媒体团成员大开眼界。观看茶艺、亲自体验茶艺及品茗活动，促进媒体团成员对中国茶艺、茶道的深入了解。一杯清幽淡雅的绿茶，品味到甘冽茶香；一套精致的茶器，呈现出中国木雕和陶瓷的灵气，带给媒体团的是那源远流长的中国文化。

茶园览景，感受生态环境

当天下午3点，非洲国家媒体团成员一行在茶艺师的带领下，来到中国浙江生态茶园——采云间九峰茶园。茶园位于浙江省级风景区九峰山麓下，这里茶园郁郁葱葱，广袤延绵，缓缓起伏，错落有致。该茶园采用“种-养-沼-肥”的生态循环模式，将沼气系统、良种奶牛场、有机茶园基地、牧草基地、蔬果基地等功能区有机联系起来。这一良性生态循环模式的农业科技成果受到媒体团成员的啧啧赞赏。

走进广阔的茶园，24位外国媒体团成员尽情拥抱茶园自然风光，轻抚嫩绿茶芽，用相机畅快捕捉茶园美景，他们深切感受到中国茶文化的生机与内涵。□

African Media Group Visits Tea Producer in Zhejiang

By Shi Fengtao

In early March 2012, a group of 24 senior media officials from 15 African countries visited Caiyunjian, a big tea manufacturer and exporter based in Jinhua, a central city in Zhejiang Province. The media officials included chiefs of govern-ment offices and news media of African countries such as Ethiopia, Ghana, Cameroon, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Tanzania, Sierra Leone, and Kenya.

For the group, a visit to the tea producer and exporter gave them first-hand experience of tea culture and tea processing. They attended a lecture on tea culture, watched a tea performance, picked tealeaves at the Nine Peaks tea plantation, and tried their hands at tea making. They were deeply impressed by the Chinese tea culture.

Zheng Jianmei, a senior national tea master, gave a short lecture on Chinese tea, addressing topics such as the origin of Chinese tea, tea cultivation and processing, tea culture, and tea as a health beverage. Toward the end of the lecturer, she interacted amiably with the African guests through a Q & A session.

After the lecture, a group of girls staged a tea perform-ance. After watching the show repeatedly, the visitors tried their hands at making and serving the tea.

In the afternoon, the 24 African guests visited the Nine Peaks tea plantation at the foot of Nine Peaks Mountain, which is a scenic zone at the provincial level. The 240-hectare tea plantation spreads on undulating slopes and operates on an ecological mode. The ecological mode is a recycling system, which consists of a biogas system, a dairy farm, an organic tea plantation, a forage farm, and a vegetable and fruit base. The African visitors were deeply im-pressed by this self-support farming system and by the size of the tea plantation.

While the media veterans were meandering around the tea plan-tation, a visitor from Ghana suddenly began performing a religious ceremony. He later explained that it was appropriate to pray at a tea plantation. He said, “People who share my faith believe that tea bonds people. We entertain our guests with a cup of tea. We hold celebrations with a cup of tea. The way of tea is a way of cultivating ones virtue. Tea creates spiritual peace, kindness, and bond.” □