Tongmu Huahan Tea Garden is located in Tongmu Town, Zhongfang County. The climate here is warm and humid throughout the year, with abundant sunshine, and the average summer temperature is about two degrees Celsius lower than that in the urban area. It has several locational advantages, being only 2 kilometers away from National Highway 209 (coded G209), 30 kilometers from Huaihua’s urban area, and 15 kilometers from the county seat. The convenient transportation network provides a guarantee for the development of the tea garden. There are many scenic spots around the tea garden such as the Jingping Ancient Village, Tongmu Grape Valley Scenic Area, Wulongxi Water Conservancy Scenic Area, Kanglong Nature Reserve, Qiancheng Ancient Town (Furong Tower), and Hongjiang Ancient Commercial Town.

The tea garden is the only tourist scenic spot around Huaihua that mainly focuses on tea production and processing. It is currently a national 3A tourist scenic spot, a national science popularization education base for teenagers, a five-star rural tourism site in Hunan Province, and a five-star leisure agricultural manor in Hunan Province. Founded in 1970, the scenic spot integrates multiple functions, including tea planting, tea production and sales, eco-tourism, leisure agriculture, science popularization education, and farming culture experience. As a member of the Hunan Tea Society, the tea garden has successively won the silver award of the China International Tea Expo, the gold award of Hunan Science and Technology Innovation, and has been honored as a leading agricultural industrialization enterprise and a science and technology star enterprise in Huaihua City. Its Snow Bamboo Shoot Tea has been rated as a Famous Tea in Hunan, and Millennium Huahan has been rated as a Famous Trademark in Hunan Province.

The tea garden is a national demonstration base for agricultural science popularization for teenagers, and has successively become a science popularization practice teaching base for students from Huaihua No.3 Middle School, Huaihua No.4 Middle School, Huaihua Hongyu Primary School, Huaihua Jinxi Primary School, Huaihua Kindergarten, Huaihua Jinding School, Zhongfang No.1 Middle School, Zhongfang Zhongxing School and other schools. With its simple folk customs, beautiful scenery, and architectural complexes, it is deeply loved by tourists.

(Translated by Yang Hong)