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Weight per pack: 100g
Tea Farm Location: Zhang Lang, Bada Mountain, Menghai, Yunnan, China
Harvest Time: Spring 2021
Tea Liquor Colour: Bright and clear golden yellow
Dry Leave Appearance: Grey Brown leaves
Wet Leaves: Greenish Brown
The Story and History of Zhang Lang Village in Menghai
Zhang Lang Village, located in the Bada Mountain range in Menghai, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan. It is an ancient village of the Bulang minority with a long history of Tea cultivation. Although there are only 244 households, it is the largest Bulang village in Xishuangbanna. “Zhang Lang” is a Dai language, meaning the place where the elephant freezes. According to legend, more than 1,400 years ago, the Buddhist disciple Maha used an elephant to carry the scriptures from Sri Lanka. A sudden freezing rain happened during the journey, the elephant was frozen stiff and fell down, the villagers from nearby rushed to help Maha to dry and keep them warm and saved the elephant. Maha built a temple and towers there, he mobilized people from the surrounding villages to move to the current location and set up a new village, named “Zhang Lang”, to commemorate the merits of the elephant.
Tea Trees of Zhang Lang Village
Zhanglang Village, a quiet village located 70km away from the city of Menghai, with 1600m elevation. Pu’erh tea grown in the high mountain forest has the unique advantage of enjoying natural sunlight and absorbing natural nutrients.There are a lots of wild tree planted around Zhanglang Village, 700 acres of ancient tea forests/gardens are planted by the ancestors of the Zhanglang villager. No matters it is big, small or ancient tree, the first impression of Zhang Lang’s tea trees can be summed up in one word- Ecology! The Zhanglang ancient tea tree is different from those in other tea mountains. They are not like the ancient tree in Bulang Mountain with wild tree crown and luxuriant branches, nor are they like the high trunk that stand out in the forests like the ancient tree in Yiwu. The trunk of the ancient Zhanglang tree does not look very thick, but it is very uniform. The height of the tree is not as high as those Yiwu, but it is generally higher than those in the Bulang Mountain. Without any human intervention, the unfettered ancient tree in Zhanglang usually grown as a tree with some weird shape of branches, which looks not very pretty, but it indicated that they are all naturally and freely grown in the wild forest.
Zhang Lang Ancient Wild Tree Raw Pu’erh
Zhang Lang Big Wild Tree Raw Pu’erh
Zhang Lang Small Wild Tree Raw Pu’erh
