A drink heritage to cherish
1 year, 3 months ago

A drink heritage to cherish

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A group of Dai women pick tea on the Jingmai Mountain, Pu'er, Yunnan province. ADMINISTRATION FOR THE CONSERVATION OF OLD TEA FORESTS OF THE JINGMAI MOUNTAIN IN PU'ER/CHINA DAILY Rich legacies It is estimated that over 1 million old tea trees grow in the approximately 72-square-kilometer core zone of the World Heritage Site, which includes nine traditional villages whose inhabitants are mainly from the Blang and Dai ethnic groups. However, people have reason to speculate that the tea-planting history of the area could be much longer, considering the fact that the world's oldest-known living tea tree, which is over 3,200-year-old, was discovered in Fengqing county, Lincang, about 300 kilometers from the Jingmai Mountain. "Traditional tea growing techniques can also be seen in places other than the Jingmai Mountain," Chen says. "Like what we sing in one of our ancient ballads, 'everything comes from tea'," Su Guowen, an 80-year-old Blang elder in Mangjing village, says.

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