歡迎您來到西螺延平老街文化館，文化館的前身是捷發乾記茶莊，是一間近二百年的老茶行。現在您看到的老建築，是許金先生在日治昭和十年，也就是1935年重建完成的茶莊前後三進。

Welcome to Xiluo Yanping Old Street Culture Museum. The predecessor of the culture museum is Jiefa Qianji Tea House, an old tea shop with nearly 200 years of history. The old building you see now is the one with three entries in order to get in, which was rebuilt by Mr. Xu Jin in 1935, the ten years of the Showa era in Japan.

現在您可以看到右邊陳列著各式古早的茶葉罐，由罐上的茶名可以窺知古人的飲茶習慣，如武夷山天心村的水仙岩茶以及鐵觀音等等。店內保存著體積龐大的錢櫃以及櫃上的四兩包茶，展現著古時候賣茶葉與賣中藥的包裝雷同相似。

On the right hand side, there are various antique tea cans displayed on cabinets, and those ancient tea names labeled on the tea cans offer historical evidence of our tea history and culture.

大門左手邊掛著鎮館之寶-捷發找茶圖。在二十世紀台灣還沒有種茶樹前，茶青需仰賴中國進口，捷發茶莊的茶青原料來自福建武夷山。在尚未有google map的年代，捷發主人聘請畫師畫下武夷山地形圖，便利族人採購茶青使用，圖中武夷山的地名有一曲到九曲之間的彎道轉折，據說大致和現在相同，著名的大紅袍就在最頂端的九曲之上，您也可以找找看喔！找茶圖旁邊掛著老店招牌「老舖捷發乾記 親辦武夷各巖頂上名種」，可做為武夷茗茶專賣店的證據。再往前走兩步，牆上書寫著捷發茶莊的歷史沿革，提供您可以慢慢閱讀。

On the left hand side of the gate, you could see the Key highlights of our collection, a hand drawing map of the origin of fresh tea leaves from Mountain Wuyi, when Taiwan didn’t grow tea, all tea leaves were imported from mainland china. In the era when there was no Google map, the owner of Jiefa hired a painter to draw a topographic map of Wuyi Mountain to facilitate local people to purchase tea green. The tea map is right next to the old shop sign , which is also the evidence that Jie Fa Chien Ji tea shop sells the tea particularly from Wuyi. Moving two steps forward, there's Jie Fa tea shop's history on the wall, allowing a tea lover to appreciate.

自古以來「耕讀傳家」的風氣千年不墜，捷發茶莊各進門楣上的詩賦，為這間老屋增添了許多雅趣。站在店內，目光很容易的就會被木屏風上的「松聲」、「魚眼」給吸引住，這兩個詞又有什麼意思呢？這是出自北宋蘇軾《試院煎茶》詩中-「蟹眼已過魚眼生，颼颼欲作松風鳴」。「松聲」形容喝茶時以火爐煮水，燃木頭時發出的颼颼聲，像風吹松葉之音。「魚眼」則是煮茶沸騰時的水泡像魚眼，大泡泡是魚眼，小泡泡是蟹眼。都是隱喻煮茶的雅趣意境。中門上的對聯有著龍團雀舌，這都是古茶名；其它的意涵您大概都可由字面體會到喝茶在恬適生活中的樂趣了!

Since thousands of years, the ethos of "Pass on Farming and Reading " has never fallen. The poem on the lintels of Jiefa Tea House has added lots of elegance and fun to this old house. Standing in the store, your eyes are easily caught by the words "song" and "fisheye" on the wooden screen. What do these two words mean? This is one of the lines in the poem "Tea baking Experiment" by Su Shi in the Northern Song Dynasty-", describing about the sound of chirping when baking tea in the stove, like the sound of wind blowing pine leaves. "Fisheye" is the blisters appearing when boiling tea, and the big bubbles are fisheyes, the small bubbles crabeyes. All are the metaph of the fun of tea making. The couplet on the middle gate written on with the words "dragon cluster" and "bird tongue" are the names of ancient teas, creating rich meanings, by which you can literally understand how people experience the pleasure of drinking tea in their leisure!

店舖的木屏風，用來區隔生意與居家的內外生活場域。外人與族中的婦孺都不能隨意跨越，家中男人進出也只開旁邊的小門，除非貴客臨門才會開中門。茶莊前後三進約270坪，屋內的木門窗都是原件且保存良好。老屋內布滿詩詞對賦，蘊含著中國茶文化精髓，值得您慢慢品味。

The wooden screen of the shop is used to separate the business place and the living space. Neither the female family nor the strangers are allowed to get in and out without permission. Even the male family can only enter by the small side door. The main gate would only be opened in some particular circumstances such as welcoming special guests. The land of the tea house is about 270 ping, featuring three spaces connected by three entries, of which the wooden windows and the doors were all original and well preserved. The house is filled with traditional Chinese poetry, implying the essence of Chinese tea culture.