The Basalt Cloud Sea Rich in Selenium Tea Base is located in Sanqing Temple Village, northeast of Gujun Town, Wanyuan City. The village covers an area of 6 square kilometers and is divided into five villagers' groups with a population of 336 households and 1,396 people. In recent years, Sanqing Temple Village has focused on the concept of “thriving industries, eco-friendly living environment, beautiful villages, civilized rural customs, and happy life.” Seizing the development opportunities of East-West cooperation, the village has persisted in driving progress through specialty industries, boosting infrastructure, and market operations. Using tea as a medium to promote diverse business forms, it strives to build a safe, harmonious, beautiful, and happy village suitable for living.
The Sanqing Temple tea plantation base is a significant section of the Zhejiang-Sichuan jointly built five-star modern agricultural tea park. The total area of the tea plantation base is approximately 6,000 acres, mostly situated at high altitudes between 800 and 1,200 meters. The base adheres to the philosophy of “science and technology for tea development and tea tourism for agricultural prosperity,” strengthening scientific support for the tea industry, continuously enhancing its strength, and deeply exploring the integration of tea and tourism. This has achieved the beautiful vision of “a leaf enriching the people.” The base integrates tea planting and processing, technical training, tourism, field teaching, and science lectures, equipped with complete facilities such as educational murals, display cabinets, boards, materials, and a technical training room. These provide a comprehensive presentation of tea culture history and scientific knowledge. The tea plantation base has been consecutively designated as one of the “Ten Most Beautiful Tea Villages in Sichuan,” a “Dazhou Municipal Science Popularization Demonstration Base,” a “First Batch of Sichuan Province's Science Popularization Shared Bases,” and a “Dazhou Municipality's New Type of Professional Farmer Training Base for the Integration of Tea and Tourism.” The Basalt Cloud Sea is currently a national 3A scenic area.
In 2021, according to the East-West cooperation project between Zhejiang and Sichuan, a tea museum and tea culture practice base were constructed in Sanqing Temple Village, with a total investment of 7.5 million yuan. The tea museum covers an area of 2,880 square meters and serves as a national tea culture exhibition and exchange center that integrates tea culture and history exhibitions, science popularization, scientific research, academic exchanges, tea art training, interactive experiences, tasting, dining, meetings, and leisure services. It is also a tea culture-themed tourist complex.
(Yin Lan, Li Jinquan)