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ANN/CHINA DAILY – Near the China-Myanmar border, the mountain is embraced by a sea of clouds on average about half the year. Driving through the zigzag road into the clouds feels like a journey into a wonderland normally associated with fairy tales. Traditional tea-leaf-shaped totems of the Blang ethnic group stand sentinel on the roofs […]

BEIJING (ANN/CHINA DAILY) – While many young people in other rural areas pour into big cities looking for better jobs, this rarely happens near the China-Myanmar border. On the Jingmai Mountain, people usually choose to stay due to the booming tea industry. Graced by a sea of clouds on average about half the year, traditional […]

On September 9, the "Pu'er Jingmai Mountain Ancient Tea Forest Cultural Landscape" project was inscribed on the World Heritage List, becoming the 17th World Heritage Site in China. In Pu'er, in Jing mai Mountain, tea is an ancient belief and a way of life. The local Brown people believe that tea is equivalent to their life, and tea is used in sacrifices, weddings and funerals, and entertainment. The tea tree that first sprouted in his own tea forest is regarded as the tea soul tr...

Late on Sunday night in a remote mountain village in southwest China Yunnan Province, a crowd burst

Jingmai Mountain is home to communities of well-preserved ancient tea trees, and the local history of the human cultivation of tea trees can be traced back more than 1,000 years.

The Jingmai Mountain Ancient Tea Forest Cultural Landscape includes 5 ancient tea forests, 9 traditional villages and 3 separate shelter forests. The ancient Chinese people elucidated their understanding of "tea" when creating words. The top layer of the tea forest is made of tall trees, the middle is a layer of small trees and shrubs dominated by tea trees. Insects and birds that live in the forest help protect tea plants from pests. Fourteen species of wild plants under key protection ...

ANN/CHINA DAILY – After China gave up its secrets on making silk, an ancient trade route was put to many other lucrative uses, reported Deng Zhangyu and Li Yingqing in Kunming. On a summer’s day in 1990, Chen Baoya and five friends embarked on a three-month hiking trip with horses, dogs and tents in which […]

At a garden located halfway up Jingmai Mountain in Lancang Lahu autonomous county, Pu'er city, Yunnan province — an area that boasts the biggest ancient tea tree plantations in China — Su Guowen grabs a handful of drying tea from the ground, smells it and knows immediately that it is not ready.