Tea Mountains in Yunnan

Bingdao Mountain is located in Shuangjiang County, Lincang City, stemmed from ancient Dai village, namely Bingdao. This Dai village is on the north of snow mountainside where is mist-shrouded, and primordial forests gather together. Hundreds and thousands years of old trees spread among mountain, all tea trees are typical Mengku large leaf variety.

Yiwu Mountain is located in Mengla County, Xishuangbanna Prefecture, and is one of the 6 Old Main Tea Mountains, the famous fountainhead of the Tea Horse Road. There is ample sunshine, plentiful rainfall, heavy fog twining round the high mountain, fairly fertile soil, warm and rainy, all these make Yiwu be the ideal tea-growing land. Relying on the long tea-consuming history and the laurel of “Auspicious Tribute for the Imperial Court”, Yiwu is really a Pu-erh tea holy place.

 

Nannuo Mountain is located in Menghai County, Xishuangbanna Prefecture. The average altitude of Nannuo Mountain is 1400m with high peaks and deep valleys and luxuriant growth. Be provided with the best ecological environment for large leaf variety, heavy fog twining round here, the tea from Nannuo Mountain has extremely high quality. From time immemorial, Nannuo Mountain is the most well-known ancient tea mountain and origin area of high quality of raw Pu-erh material in the western downstream of Lancang River. Here are mixed ancient tea gardens which were built from one thousand year ago by Bulan minority, and then abandoned.

Bangwei is located in the Lincang County, Pu-er City, and in the south of Tropic of cancer. Specific elevation, rainfall, and humiture constitute unique habitat, which breeds numerous Theaceae plants, and ultimately evolve to wild old tea community, transformed and cultivated old tea community. Bangwei is prior tea- culturing fecund land on Lancang riverside.

Hekai is located in Menghai County, Xishuangbanna Prefecture, and elevation ranges from 1400 to 1700m. There are rolling hills, interlacing valleys, warm and sunny, abundant rainfall, fertile land. Besides tea, alder, schima superba, and eupatorium odoratum could be found here as well. Hekai possesses good ecological environment, and is one of the biggest well-preserved ancient main tea mountains.

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