Qingpu, a municipal demonstration site, was selected

By the end of 2023, the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism will carry out the recommendation of "Intangible Cultural Heritage in Communities" demonstration projects and demonstration sites throughout the city. After on-site investigation, expert review, social publicity and other procedures, recently, the list of Shanghai's "Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Community" demonstration projects and demonstration sites was announced, and Shangta Primary School, the "Grandma Tea" demonstration site, was selected as one of the demonstration sites in the city.

Grandma tea is a folk custom that has been followed for a long time in Jinze Shangta area. The local farmers, especially the grandma in the countryside, come and go every day, sit around in the farmhouse guest hall or in the corridor shed, and put homemade local specialties such as pickled amaranth, dried radish, and crispy beans on the table. They are happy to drink tea and enjoy themselves. This kind of cultural and moral custom of taking tea as a gift, treating guests with tea, exchanging thoughts and feelings, and building good neighborly and harmonious friendship has become the custom and etiquette of business couch people over time, forming a unique folk custom in Jiangnan water region. Grandma tea is not only the nostalgia of Shangta area, but also the first batch of intangible cultural heritage in Shanghai.

According to Zhu Wenhao, a teacher who taught Shangta Primary School how to pass on Grandma tea culture, for many years, Shangta Primary School has used the advantages of Grandma tea resources to constantly explore and research, enrich the content of intangible heritage inheritance through practical experience, carry out a series of tea culture research activities, and carry out inheritance through practical experience, so as to make the customs of Jiangnan water villages flourish. According to Zhu Wenhao, the teacher of Shangta Primary School's tea culture transmission, Shangta Primary School has 81 square meters of tea rooms and 108 square meters of tea exhibition hall. In the class and team classes held every Wednesday and half day, there are transmission teachers who take turns to implement the popularization teaching of "Grandma's Tea Growing with Me" for five grades in the Grandma's Tea Room. The school has become an excellent transmission base for the study of Chinese excellent traditional culture and the introduction of Shanghai intangible cultural heritage into the campus, Shanghai Grandma's Tea Protection and Inheritance Studio, Qingpu District intangible cultural heritage heritage base Qingpu District Education Bureau Grandma Tea Research Pilot School.

In September every year, Shangta Primary School will also organize the activity of Grandma Tea Culture Festival, which includes 20 projects, such as research report on small topics, essay contest for social personnel, teacher and student tea party competition of "I invite neighbors to eat Grandma Tea", evaluation of Grandma tea themed activity classes, 10 village Grandma Tea Inheritance Competition, teacher and student Grandma Tea Inheritance Competition of 10 Canadian League schools, and evaluation of excellent instructors of Grandma Tea Inheritance, More than 2000 people from inside and outside the school participated in the event, guiding everyone to explore local historical resources, understand the connotation of regional culture, cultivate deep feelings of family and country, and strengthen confidence in traditional culture.

"Now we have also organically combined Grandma tea with ideological and political courses to form a walking intangible cultural heritage ideological and political course, leading students to inherit the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation, and cultivating students to practice socialist core values." Zhu Wenhao said.