Tea Culture Museum

The Laoshan Tea Culture Museum is a rare professional tea culture museum in northern China. Through [...]

The Laoshan Tea Culture Museum is a rare professional tea culture museum in northern China. Through the combination of physical objects, written materials, lighting and sound, it displays tea-producing areas from the Han Dynasty to modern times, modern tea samples, ancient tea books, modern tea books, the successful planting areas of Laoshan tea, the distribution of planting areas, and the annual output of Laoshan tea.


In particular, it showcases traditional tea drinking utensils in the north, the square tables from the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China, and the physical exhibitions of Laoshan tea production processes. The main building of the museum has four floors. Inside the Chinese Tea Culture Museum, there are more than 300 pieces (sets) of tea sets from the Han, Tang, Five Dynasties, Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing and modern times on display, more than 200 tea scriptures and tea books, a hundred kinds of famous tea samples from all over the country, and more than 60 tea seals.


Inside the museum, there are also Han relief stones unearthed in Jiaxiang, Shandong Province, documents (photocopies) on the northward migration of southern tea issued by the Shandong Provincial Party Committee in the 1950s and 1960s, tea-making tools since the northward migration of southern tea, scenes of tea farmers picking tea in the early morning, Laoshan tea culture and legends about Laoshan tea.


Opening hours: Open from Tuesday to Sunday throughout the year, 9:00 – 16:00. Tips: Visitors can enter the museum with their ID cards.


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