JohnHou's Chinese Tea Life

Tea mountain map of Xishuanbanna prefecture including some famous spots like menghai tea region, nannuo mountain, bulang mountain, laobanzhang village, laomaner  village, make village, yiwu tea region, mahei village, guafengzhai village etc. (Map source: http://www.sohu.com/a/156544584_556656)

(Source: https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E5%8B%90%E6%B5%B7%E8%8C%B6%E5%8E%82/10894931?fr=aladdin ) "勐海茶厂 Meng Hai Tea Factory" belongs to TAE TEA group, traditionally known as "大益 DA YI ". In 1910 year, Qing dynasty helped the Chief Chieftain of Che Li Xuan Wei Si (a region name) suppress the war between Chieftains of Meng Hai sub-region and Meng Zhe sub-region. Both were in territory of Che Li Xuan Wei Si . In the same year, business man of Han ethnic Zhang Tangjie opened the first tea store in Meng Hai.  At that time, the harvest of puerh tea was around 100'000 kg/year, and all were transported to Puerh City(also called Si Mao in past) to be processed. Since 1923 year, many people went to Meng Hai to open stores and press tea products for exporting via the new roads via Myanmar and India. In the beginning of 1939 year, the newly found "The Yunnan Tea Corporation" sent Mr. Fan Hejun and Zhang Shicheng to Meng Hai (called Fo Hai at that time) to inv

NA KA village, Meng Song town, north of Meng Hai county as below (red word). (Map source: http://www.sohu.com/a/156544584_556656) Natural environment. Tea farmer friend and his most large tea tree. Even though, he still sells the price on tea leaves from this individual tree lower as other old trees along with the market. Harvest of this autumn. Test on tea harvested and processed in different days. The earliest was in this Auguest. The latest was picked and processed in two days ago (around Oct. 10th) At the end, I selected the best one of them which was picked around in the first week of Oct, though it is the most expensive one.

A tea farmer and his own Gushu puerh tea tree. Below is conversation between me and him when we were there. "Are there snakes in this mountain? " I tried to ask a question which has made me feel confused and worried. " Yes. There are many kinds of snakes like cobra and green bamboo snake, even python which has waist like arm of adult" I was very astonished. Then I asked "Have you ever been bite by any snakes?" "No" (He is 47 years old) Okay, I felt some relieved. (Died tree. My farmer friend told me snakes like living in whole of that) A few minutes later, I thought of another question "Has anybody been bite?" "Yes. But very rarely. " "By cobra?" "No. These cases were all by Green Bamboo Snake which has much similar color to tea leaf" "Any died? " "Yes. Around 6 years ago, a villager here was bite in mountain at night and he died before sent to local hospital.