Mount Brown is a famous mountain for Pu’er tea production. The villages on the mountain, including Ban Zhang, Lao Man’e, and Man Xinlong, among others, vary in size. Among them, Ban Zhang Village has gained renown in recent years for producing the highest quality Pu’er tea. For Pu’er tea enthusiasts, the name ‘Ban Zhang’ is as famous as thunder.
Mountain people—the Bulang, Wa, and De’ang ethnic groups—established villages in the vast mountains, living together in communities.Bulang Mountain is located in the southern part of Menghai County, Xishuangbanna Prefecture, Yunnan Province, near the China-Myanmar border. Covering an area of more than 1,000 square kilometers, the indigenous people of Bulang Mountain—the Bulang, Wa, and De’ang ethnic groups—built villages in the vast mountains and lived together in communal settlements.
The Earliest Tea-Producing RegionDriving out of Menghai County and heading south, one passes through Xiangshan and the vast Menghun Basin, with Bulang Mountain faintly visible in the distance. Between these forests and mountains, the Bulang people have lived for thousands of years.According to expert research, the Bulang people are descendants of the ancient Bai Pu ethnic group, including the Bulang, Wa, and De’ang peoples. Historically, the Bai Pu migrated southward and established the extraordinary civilization represented by Angkor Wat in the Indochina Peninsula. In contrast to these ancestors who ventured abroad, the Bulang, De’ang, and other groups who remained in China continued to live in dense forests until the Republican era. Within over 1,000 square kilometers of Bulang Mountain, they lived by the sun—rising at dawn and resting at sunset—never leaving Yunnan and remaining isolated from the outside world. Therefore, it can be said that the inhabitants of Bulang Mountain are the indigenous people of Yunnan, the true roots of Yunnanese identity.The renowned American sinologist Mei-Xia Ai, in her book “The Tea Road,” mentioned that tea originated in southern Yunnan. From here, it spread to various parts of China over 2,000 years ago. At the same time, the indigenous people of this region had begun pressing tea into bricks and cakes, transporting them out of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau via caravan routes, extending northward to the Hexi Corridor and even westward to Central Asia. This tea route is recognized as the first tea trade route in human history and is sometimes called the “Bow of Tea Culture” because its path resembles a bow.
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