Jinghe New City: The Only Fu Tea Museum in China Presenting
the Thousand-Year Fu Tea Culture on the Silk Road

Chinese Fu tea was originated in Jingyang more than 1000 years ago. It was exported northwestward along the Jing River and arrived at Rome after thousands of miles. So the mysterious tea on the Silk Road was sold far to the northwest, Central Asia and Europe. A saying goes well, "It is better to have no food for three days than to have no tea for one day." Jingyang Fu tea, which has a very high production technology, can help digest food and ease appetite, so it has been popular for a thousand years.

"The sculptures here show the source of Fu tea, the water of Jing River. Lingbei grows no tea; only Jingyang has produced Fu tea." On November 21, "Voice of Shaanxi, via Which We Communicate with the World" delegation came to Jinghe New Town, Xixian New Area, Chinese Fu Tea Culture Museum, where the commentator spoke about the thousand-year Fu Tea culture.

It is reported that the museum is the only one in China themed Fu tea. With a total floor area of 6,100 square meters, it is located in the core position of Fu Tea Town, and a multi-functional integrated exhibition space with a collection of Fu tea cultural exchange, Fu tea cultural creativity transmission, and storage and sales of quality Fu tea.

Unlike common single-story museum, it has three floors. The first floor is the Fu Tea Culture Museum and Fu Tea Banquet Restaurant, which shows the historical origin, tea-making process and product sales of Fu Tea, and tells the status of Fu Tea in the history of tea culture to excavate and display the history of Fu Tea.

The second floor is the space for performing arts of Fu tea culture, including the theme theater which can accommodate 200 people, a diner and characteristic shops, which create an immersive experience. The third floor is mainly used for tea culture training and communication, office, warehousing, meetings, and guest rooms.

As the core display area, the first floor is composed of seven sections: Fu Tea Origins, Thousand-Year Ancestors, Fragrance of the Silk Road, Tea Making Technology, Mystery of Golden Flowers, Shaanxi Tea Merchants, and Fu Tea Dream. Fu tea Origins tell the legendary story of Shennong's "Tasting Hundreds of Herbs to Find Tea"; the Fragrance of the Silk Road shows the function of Fu brick tea on the ancient Silk Road by dynamic oil painting projection, and the exhibition areas of Mystery of Golden Flowers project the "Tea Elf" to display the origin of "Golden Flowers" in Fu tea.

In addition, the three tea cellars in the museum have created the first "Fu Cellar" industry in China, with a storage of about 30 tons of quality Fu tea. As one of the key projects of the museum, the constant temperature and humidity storage space enhances the cultural value and collection value of Fu tea, and can make Fu tea Museum into the saloon of Shaanxi tea culture and the experience site of the source of Chinese Fu tea culture.

The Shaanxi Fu Tea Culture Museum was opened in 2018 and received 100,000 visitors that year after its opening in April. Visitors will reach 300,000 in 2019 and are estimated to be 500,000 in 2020. The open museum is not only the first stop of tourism in Fu Tea Town, but also one of the core industries of Jinghe New City in transformation and development through the promotion of Fu tea Culture and Fu tea Industry.

It is reported that in the future, Shaanxi Fu Tea Culture Museum will be built into a new multi-functional museum of experience and tourism, Including traditional theatrical performances, art works design performances themed "Fu Dao" , as well as development and sales of cultural and creative products. It will create a chain of exportable Fu tea theme dining brands and gradually promote the development of Fu tea industry to spread Fu tea culture out of Jinghe and rebuild a communication platform for the Silk Road Fu tea culture. (Chen Rong)