The thirtieth edition of the International Carlo Scarpa Prize for Gardens is dedicated to The Tea Gardens of Dazhangshan, situated in Wuyuan county, in the northeast of Jiangxi province, in southeast China. A site capable of stimulating a reflection on both historic and contemporary rural landscapes, as well as the environmental and social emergencies currently affecting our planet. The vast system of hills beneath the mountains of Dazhangshan is surrounded by tea cultivations managed according to agroecological criteria: the undulating fields with their distinctive rows of tidy hedges unfold between the forests above and the rice paddies in the valleys below. The tea plant (Camellia sinensis), which originates in this corner of China, has shaped a contemporary landscape conveying a sense of history and projecting into the future the values of a rural environment where humans have established a harmonious relationship with nature.