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Wuyi Mountain Tea Region
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Wuyi Mountain Tea Region
The birthplace of black tea and oolong — the Danxia microclimate and mineral-saturated soil of the authentic rock-tea zone perfectly transcode geology into the world's finest tea aromas.
Prefecture: Nanping
Province: FujianCalm river water runs between red-brown cliffs topped with pines and shrubs, mist drifts among the far cliffs, and a leafy branch with thick leaves enters at lower right.
Vista4
- Mount Wuyi Nine-Bend Stream
The soul of Mount Wuyi's Danxia scenery, the clear jade-green Nine-Bend Stream winds past thirty-six peaks and ninety-nine crags.
- Wuyi Mountain Dahongpao Mother Tea Trees
On a sheer cliff grow the six mother trees of Da Hong Pao, king of Chinese teas, at the heart of Wuyi rock-tea heritage and its traditional craft.
- Tongmuguan Zhengshan Xiaozhong Tea Agroforest
Regarded as the birthplace of Lapsang Souchong, the first black tea, Tongmuguan keeps highland gardens where old wild tea bushes grow among bamboo.
- Mount Wuyi Huanggangshan Subtropical Forest
Called the roof of mainland East China, Huanggangshan protects one of the largest and best-preserved mid-subtropical native forests at its latitude.
In its history2
- Zhu Xi1130–1200 CE
Part of Wuyi Mountain Tea Region's history: Zhu Xi's Neo-Confucianism. Southern Song Neo-Confucian whose Collected Commentaries on the Four Books became the set text of the civil examinations from the Yuan onward
- Lu Jiuyuan1139–1193 CE
Part of Wuyi Mountain Tea Region's history: Zhu Xi's Neo-Confucianism. Southern Song Confucian teacher known as Master Xiangshan, who held that the mind is principle and argued with Zhu Xi at Goose Lake in 1175
Song2
- Zhu Xi's Neo-Confucianism
The official ideology that shaped East Asian intellectual elite's spiritual world for seven centuries.
- Zhu Xi Establishes Wuyi Jingshe1183 CE
In 1183 Zhu Xi established Wuyi Jingshe at Mount Wuyi, teaching and writing there and making the academy a physical center of his Neo-Confucian learning.
Ming1
- Zhengshan Xiaozhong Gains Its Tongmuguan IdentityMing period
During the Ming period, Tongmuguan developed the pine-smoked Zhengshan Xiaozhong tradition, an important source in black-tea history.