安溪铁观音的传说

Legend 1: Guanyin's dream

It is said that around 1720, there was a tea in Songyan Village of Yaoyang, Anxi, named Nong Wei Yin (1703-1775), who cultivated tea for a living, believed in Buddhism, and worshipped Guanyin. Every morning and evening, a cup of tea is served in front of Guanyin, and it has never been interrupted for decades! One night after he fell asleep, he dreamed in a hazy dream that he was walking out of the house carrying a hoe. He came to a small creek and accidentally found a tea tree in the crevice of the stone. No tea tree ever seen!

Anxi Tieguanyin Tea Area

The next morning, he followed the road in his dream to find it. Sure enough, he found a very special tea tree between the stone crevices of Guanyinlun's stone pit (the name of the place). The tea tree grows with hypertrophic mesophyll, and the tender buds are purple and green. Wei Yin was very excited, so he transplanted this special tree into the iron cauldron at home and cultivated it carefully. Because this tea was obtained by Guanyin in a dream and planted in an iron tripod, it was named "Tieguanyin"!

Anxi Tieguanyin Dry Tea

Legend 2: Qianlong bestowed the name

Wang Shirang, an official in Nanyan, Xiping, Anxi (a deputy tribute in the tenth year of Yongzheng in the Qing Dynasty, and served as a judge in Jinzhou, Huangzhou, Huguang in the six years of Qianlong) once built a study at the foot of Nanshan and named it "Nanxuan". In the spring of the first year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty (1736), Wang and Zhuyou met in "Nanxuan". One day, he accidentally discovered that there was a tea tree among the cracks that was different, so he transplanted it into the tea garden in Nanxuan, cultivated it carefully, and multiplied it every year. , Fragrant and mellow, refreshing. In the sixth year of Qianlong, Wang Shirang was summoned to the capital to meet Fang Bao, the servant of the Ministry of Rites, and gave this tea to Fang Bao. Fang servant tasted very good, so he sent it to the palace, and the emperor praised it after drinking it. Iron has a beautiful taste, fragrance and shape, just like "Guanyin", so Qianlong gave it the name "Tie Guanyin".