What Is a Tea Plantation?

We often say that there are two types of tea gardens, one for tea plantation and the other for tea and entertainment.

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Tea originated in China and has been cultivated for more than 3,000 years. It is one of the three major beverages of human beings, and its consumption exceeds coffee and cocoa. Drinking tea is beneficial to people's physical health. Its main functions are: excitement and tiredness, diuresis and eyesight, detoxification and thirst elimination, tired food and tiredness, sleep less, increase nutrition, resist aging, reduce blood pressure, strengthen blood vessels, suppress cancer . Song Dynasty poet

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Tea culture blends the excellent ideas of Confucian, Buddhist, Taoist, Lao, Zhuang, and Mo traditional Chinese culture. Emperor's Generals, Scholars, and Monks

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Tea Garden Zhang Baoshen

In the thirty-three years of Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty (1907), a theater called "Civilized Tea Garden" officially opened at the coal market corner of the north of Xizhu Shikou Avenue in Beijing. Yu Zhenting, the main manager of the Civilized Tea Garden, is a famous martial arts actor from the Peking Opera family. He is also a brother of Yang Xiaolou and Shang Heyu. He has founded "Shuangqing Club" and "Binqing Club" and other classes, and has trained and supported a large number of actors such as Mei Lanfang and Li Wanchun. Yu Zhenting is a connoisseur and innovative spirit. After the opening of the Civilized Tea Garden, he vigorously advocated the new style of civilization, dared to break the thousands of years of feudal tradition and old practice, and performed in the night theater of the first theater in Beijing. In the restricted area of the theater, women's seats were specially set up on the upper floor of the theater; it set a precedent for female actors and actresses performing on the same stage. These measures of Civilized Tea Garden have caused a lot of shocks inside and outside the capital, and newspapers and magazines have praised them, "Civilized Tea Garden is worthy of the name" and "the first in hundreds of years." This ban was lifted and cannot be taken for granted. Since then, night theater performances have been performed in various theaters in Beijing, and women have been banned from watching theaters. Actresses have also become more popular.

Tea Garden Liu Kuixi

China's feudal tradition is "men and women do not accept or accept each other", and women have always been prohibited from entering tea gardens and theaters. In the Qing Dynasty, it was not only banned from performing night shows, women were not allowed to come to the show, and it was also forbidden that female actresses appeared on the stage many times. During the reign of Emperor Kangxi, actresses were banned from acting on the order of the Qing dynasty. Where actresses were found on stage, the chief executive in this area would be removed. This is also the reason why China once prevailed. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, there was some loosening of the female actresses, but there were still no female actresses in the Jingbanbanshe. The Tianjin class has risen, female actresses have multiplied, and are often invited to perform in other provinces, which is all the rage. Yu Zhenting invited Tianjin s famous actresses Jin Yuemei, Sun Yiqing, and Zhao Meiyu to perform in Beijing. The first female actress appeared on stage with men and women. This move caused a sensation in Beijing and the theater was full every day. Especially Liu Xikui, a well-known Kunling from Tianjin who later came to Beijing, overwhelmed Mei Lanfang and Tan Xinpei to a great extent. At that time, the "Tenth-Day Drama" contained an article stating: "The actress Liu Xikui presented her art performance with her sister-in-law Huadan, and she was so imposing that the price was overwhelming Lao Tan, let alone Yang Xiaolou, Liu Hongsheng, and Mei Lanfang." "Liu Xikui played" New Camellia ", if the people in Beijing are crazy. There is no room in the garden at 9 am. After the Japanese opera is finished, they can't wait to watch the night show." This shows the grand performance of Liu Xikui at the time.

In Tianjin, Liu Xikui criticized feudal ideas, promoted women's liberation, and fought for democracy and freedom. The civilized fashion shows "East Sea Tide", "New Camellia", and "Iron Shirts" were welcomed by progressive youth and the audience. Zhou Enlai, who was studying at Nankai Middle School at that time, was her enthusiastic audience. Liu Xikui was an actor who performed civilized drama earlier in Beijing. Civilized play is a collective name for dialogue drama and fashion drama in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China. In the late Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, after the introduction of western drama in China, it was called a new drama, a civilized drama, and it was not named a drama until the 1920s. At the time, the fashion dramas, costume dramas, and dress dramas performed on operas were also called civilized operas. The feature of Civilized Drama is that it can quickly bring the current affairs news in the society and the events that the citizens care about the most, so it is loved by the audience. In the 1920s and 1930s, various types of civilized dramas were very active. Early writer Cheng Zhaocai, influenced by the Revolution of 1911 and the May 4th New Cultural Movement, has authored "Sister Yang's Complaint", "Black Cat's Complaint", "An Zhonggen Assassination Ito Hirofumi", "Gun Yan Yansheng" Comment on drama fashion civilization drama. Even in the costume play "Flower as a Medium", Zhang Wuke in the play sang, "Advise your fellows to let your feet go, and now say that the big feet of civilization are high ..." It can be seen that advocating civilization is the trend of the time.

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Civilized Tea Garden was changed to the North China Theater in the 1930s. The drama critic Xi Cailian, who is known as the "Time Artist", performed new performances such as "Peach Blossom", "Thirteen Sisters" and "Saw Bowl Ding". Pingju dramas and civilized plays have been a sensation and have been well received by the audience. Yu Zhenting, an advocate of civilization, died of illness in January 1939 at the age of 60. Civilized Tea Garden does not exist, but it has left an important page in the history of civilization in Beijing.