Green Tea · FFET10044
Mengshan Tea Traditional Craft
Mengshan tea preserves a Sichuan green-tea tradition through inherited tools and hand techniques.
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Two hands toss tea leaves in a large steaming iron wok, a bamboo tray is spread with fresh leaves, a bowl of pale green tea and a dish of finished leaves stand beside it, and tea terraces rise in the distance.
Tea whose leaf is fixed, rolled and dried: pan-dried, oven-dried, sun-dried and steamed.
Mengshan tea traditional craft uses local leaves, traditional tools and inherited processes in Mingshan, Sichuan. The page records hand techniques including lifting, tossing, pulling, pressing, scattering, pushing and rolling; it entered the national list in 2021.