Produced in Pu'er, Yunnan, belongs to black tea, has a history of more than 1,700 years, with Yunnan large-leaf varieties of Yunnan large-leaf dried green hair tea recognized as raw materials, fermented and processed into loose tea and pressed tea, the appearance of brown red or slightly grayish-white, the aroma is unique and fragrant, the taste is mellow and sweet
It belongs to black tea, because the origin of the former Yunnan Pu'er Prefecture (now Pu'er City), so it is named. Now it refers to the tea produced in the Pu'er tea area, which is a loose tea and pressed tea made from Yunnan large-leaf sun-dried green hair tea that is recognized as a Pu'er tea area, and is processed after post-fermentation. The appearance color is brownish red, the inner soup color is red and bright, the aroma is unique, the taste is mellow and sweet, and the bottom of the leaves is brownish. There are raw tea and ripe tea, raw tea is naturally fermented, and ripe tea is artificially ripened. "The older you are, the more fragrant" is recognized as the biggest feature of Pu'er tea that distinguishes it from other teas. Pu'er tea is an "imported antique", unlike other teas that are expensive in Xin, Pu'er tea is expensive in "Chen" and tends to appreciate gradually over time.
Yunnan is the native place of tea trees in the world, and most of the roots of various teas in the country and even the world are in the Pu'er tea producing areas of Yunnan. Pu'er tea has a very long history, as early as more than 3,000 years ago, the Pu people, the ancestors of Yunnan tea, have offered tea to King Wu of Zhou, but there was no name of Pu'er tea at that time. In the Yuan Dynasty, there was a place called "Buribu", which was later written in Chinese characters, and became "Puer" (at that time, "ear" did not have three points of water). The word Pu'er was first seen here, and since then it has been famous at home and abroad, until the end of the Ming Dynasty, it was renamed Pu'er tea. During the Three Kingdoms period, the "relics of Wuhou" opened the Pu'er tea talk on the 23rd day of the seventh lunar month more than 1,700 years ago. "There is a tea king tree in the tea mountain, which is larger than the five mountains, and the relics of the Marquis of Benwu are still worshiped by the people." (Tan Cui, "Dian Hai Yu Heng Zhi").
After the birth of New China, Yunnan tea was reborn. In 1951, the province's tea research institutions were established, and by 1958, the province's tea garden area reached 466,000 mu, producing 180,000 quintals of tea, but the good momentum of development was disrupted by the Great Leap Forward, because of the pursuit of high indicators, blind command, strong harvesting, tea trees were greatly devastated, to the beginning of the Cultural Revolution in 1966, Yunnan tea was still only 190,000 quintals. During the ten years of turmoil, the development of tea was slow, and in 1976, when the Cultural Revolution ended, the area reached 1.27 million mu, while the output was only 320,000 quintals.
In 1990 after the reform and opening up, the tea garden area reached 2.4 million mu, the output in 1998 reached 1.55 million quintals, the export of more than 200,000 quintals, and the foreign exchange earned 22.5 million US dollars, creating the greatest glory in the history of Yunnan tea. Pu'er tea has also ushered in another glorious period. However, it is worth mentioning that in 1975, Yunnan began the production of ripe Pu'er tea.
Pu'er tea origin
Pu'er is mainly produced in Yunnan Menghai, Mengla, Pu'er City, Gengma, Cangyuan, Shuangjiang, Lincang, Yuanjiang, Jingdong, Dali, Pingbian, Hekou, Maguan, Malipo, Wenshan, Xichou, Guangnan, Xishuangbanna, followed by Guizhou Panxian, Rongjiang, Guangxi Fusui, Zhaoping, Fujian Nanjing, Guangdong Ruyuan, Lianshan, Maoming and Hainan Changjiang, Qiongzhong, Ledong, Baoting, Lingshui and other places. Born in subtropical and tropical mountain forests at an altitude of 1200~1400 meters. It is also found in northern Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, and India. Rare species. Wild tea trees (including cultivated wild tea trees), also known as Pu'er tea, are distributed in southern Yunnan and Hainan. Among them, Yunnan has the "Tea King" with an age of more than 1,800 years, which is the largest plant at present, although the local measures have been taken to protect it, but the plant is still subject to human interference, if the management and protection are not strengthened, there will be a danger of being destroyed and killed. With the increase of population in Yunnan, the natural forests have shrunk sharply, and at the same time, there are many people who go to the mountains to pick wild tea leaves around the "Qingming Festival" every year, and the number of wild tea trees is also decreasing.
The famous tea mountains and villages of Ercha: Jinggu, Yiwu, Youle, Brown, Banzhang, Nannuo, Mengsong, Jingmai, Bangwei, Qianjiazhai, Zhenyuan, Wuliangshan, Mengku.
On May 13, 2008, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People's Republic of China approved the implementation of the protection of geographical indication products with the announcement of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine [2008] No. 60, and the national standard of "Geographical Indication Product Pu'er Tea" was also approved by the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine and the National Standards Committee of the People's Republic of China on August 5, 2008 with the National Standard of the People's Republic of China No. 10 (No. 123) approved and issued, and was officially implemented on December 1, 2008.
