The Yixing Yangxian Tea Culture Museum is located in the beautiful Yunhu Scenic Area and is one of the eight expo parks in Wuxi. It is on the east side of Xianglin Road, adjacent to the Grand Master Hsing Yun’s ancestral temple, the Tashue Temple in the south, and connected to Guailianshan Mountain in the north. Surrounded by mountains and overlooking the lake, the scenery is pleasant.
The Yixing Yangxian Tea Culture Museum integrates tea culture collection and display, popular science publicity, social research, cultural dissemination, and tea art performances. It also has supporting facilities such as academic exchanges, VIP receptions, leisure tea tasting, and business activities. At the same time, through the tea culture corridor with a landscape garden layout, the entire core area is interconnected, thus becoming an important window to display Yangxian tea culture and also a tourist landscape with the characteristics of a landscape ecological garden. The Yixing Yangxian Tea Culture Museum consists of three parts. The first part is the main building, which is divided into 7 professional exhibition halls and 1 temporary exhibition hall. Through words and exhibits, and using high-tech means such as sound, light, and electricity, it details and shows the formation, inheritance, and development history of ‘Yangxian Imperial Tea’, as well as the Yangxian tea culture formed on this basis. The second part is the tea garden with local characteristics, which has three representative tea houses for tourists to rest and taste tea. The third part is the ecological tea garden experience area, which has four rest tea pavilions, two scenic corridors, and a tea tasting pavilion. The seven professional exhibition halls are the prologue hall, millennium tea history, Tang tribute tea baking, flowing rhyme of tea poems, famous mountains and temples, purple clay and fragrant tea, millennium teahouse, and prosperous tea industry. The prologue hall uses simulated tea trees, green bamboos, and artificially hand-painted background pictures to highlight the word ‘green’ of ‘the oasis of tea’ and the grand occasion of ten thousand mu of tea gardens. The millennium tea history in the first exhibition hall shows the scene of Lu Yu, the sage of tea, recommending tea, and understanding how Yangxian tea became tribute tea back then. The second exhibition hall tells about the production procedures and tools of Tang tribute tea. The third exhibition hall displays the poems and odes praising Yangxian tea through the ages. Celebrities and scholars through the ages such as Su Shi, Mei Yaochen, Wen Zhengming, Chen Weisong, and Lu Shideng have left excellent lines for Yangxian tea. The theme of the fourth exhibition hall is famous mountains and temples, which is built imitating Yixing’s karst caves. The fifth exhibition hall mainly displays Yixing purple clay teapots. Famous tea has long been regarded as the national drink, and drinking utensils are naturally called national treasures. Yangxian tea has long been a treasure in the national drink, and purple clay teapots are also called precious treasures among national utensils. The millennium teahouse in the sixth exhibition hall shows the prosperous situation of teahouses in Yixing during the Tang Dynasty, the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The seventh exhibition hall displays Yixing’s seven famous teas, namely Yangxian Xueya, Jingxi Yunpian, Shan Juan Chunyue, Zhuhai Jinming, Shengdao Shoumei, Mingding White Tea, and Mingding Que She. The Yixing Yangxian Tea Culture Museum is a landscape ecological garden characteristic landscape integrating research, display, and publicity, allowing people to experience the profound connotations of Yangxian tea culture, religious Zen culture, and purple clay pottery culture, and they can also personally experience the fun of picking and making tea.The museum is open year-round from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM.
Preferential policies: Children under 1.4 meters in height (inclusive) or under 6 years old (inclusive) enter for free; children between 1.4 meters (exclusive) and 1.5 meters (exclusive) or under 18 years old (exclusive) can enjoy a 50% discount on the ticket price (with valid ID proof).
Elderly: Elders aged 70 and above (with valid ID proof) enter for free; those aged between 60 and 69 (inclusive) can enjoy a 50% discount on the ticket price (with valid ID proof).
Military personnel: Active-duty officers (with valid ID proof) enter for free.
Students: Students can purchase discounted tickets at the scenic area with a student ID.
Additional information on discounted tickets: The above information is for reference only; please check with the scenic area for the most up-to-date details.
