Nanping, China News Agency, November 12 (Ye Guobao) - "Most people at home and abroad know that Jingdezhen in Jiangxi produces royal customized porcelain. Today, I learned that Jian'ou Beiyuan tribute tea in northern Fujian is also a royal customized drink." Alan McFarlane, a member of the British National Academy of Sciences and a professor of social anthropology at the University of Cambridge, who has been to famous tea producing areas in China such as Yunnan, Sichuan, and Zhejiang, On the 12th, he revealed his new perspective at the opening ceremony of the first Beiyuan Gongcha Culture Festival. On that day, the first Beiyuan Gongcha Culture Festival opened in Jian'ou City, Nanping, Fujian. Tea enthusiasts, experts, and scholars from 8 countries including the UK, Germany, Japan, South Korea, and Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan gathered to meet tea enthusiasts, taste tea, appreciate tea art, discuss tea ceremony, discuss tea affairs, and explore the tea industry. The opening scene of the first Beiyuan Gong Tea Festival in 2023. Photographed by Ye Guobao. Jian'ou City, formerly known as Jianzhou, has a history of over 1800 years and is one of the four earliest counties in Fujian to establish a county. It is a nationally advanced cultural county, one of the first batch of provincial-level historical and cultural cities, and one of the birthplaces of the orthodox Confucianism of Zhu Zi. To this day, it still retains the ancient city pattern of "36 streets, 72 lanes, 24 squares, three mountains, six rivers, seven bridges, nine city gates, and two inner and outer cities. Beiyuan tribute tea originated in the Tang Dynasty and flourished in the Song Dynasty. It lasted for 458 years and became the highest tribute in Chinese imperial history. It enjoys the reputation of "Dragon and Phoenix Cake, famous in the world", "The tea in the world is the most, and the Beiyuan tea is also the most". The Beiyuan Yubei Tea Site is the only official Yubei Office site in the world. The calligraphy brush and the book "Tea and the World", featuring Ye Guobao's tea ordering skills developed from Jian'ou, have made multiple appearances in the diplomatic scene of major powers. Jian'ou City has always inherited the philosophy and elegance of Eastern tea culture, anchored the development positioning of "Qiannian Jianzhou · Neo Confucianism City", and promoted the revival of Beiyuan culture. At present, the tea plantation area in Jian'ou City is 136000 acres, with an annual tea production of 19500 tons, a total tea production value of 1.28 billion yuan, and a total tea related output value of nearly 5 billion yuan. Zhou Jing, Secretary of the Jian'ou Municipal Party Committee, stated in his speech that Jian'ou will deeply promote the "1+5" Beiyuan Revitalization Action, regularly hold Beiyuan Tribute Tea Culture Festival, closely communicate with East Asia and around the world, continue to expand the dissemination of Beiyuan culture, and enhance the sense of identity of tea people around the world; Carry out the action of exploring the origin of tea ceremony, pay attention to the activation and transformation of materialization, integrate cultural connotations with technological and fashion innovation, and endow Beiyuan Gongcha with modern vitality; Promote the construction of national archaeological site parks, Beiyuan Yubei Site Museum, Tea God Temple and other projects, and create a holy land for Chinese tea culture, a birthplace of Eastern tea culture, and a research highland for world tea culture. The Executive Vice Dean of China Buddhist Academy, Master Minghai, the abbot of the Berlin Zen Temple in Zhaozhou, Sun Xiao, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of History and director of the China National Studies Research and Exchange Center, as well as several guests from Japan's Ogasawara Liujian Tea Festival, including the fifth generation leader of the Ogasawara Tea Festival, Yuan Ogasawara Hiddo, praised Beiyuan Culture as the most brilliant page in world tea history, and talked about the collision and integration of traditional tea culture and modern tea culture, Imagine the cultural form and rejuvenation path of Beiyuan tribute tea in the future together. During the event, the world's first tea ordering machine made a stunning debut. The development team visited non elderly tea enthusiasts in Beiyuan, combined with modern tea drinking application scenarios, and quickly ordered a cup of traditional foam tea with dense and rich taste through technological means instead of manual labor