Inside Fengqing's Dianhong Story
The tea museum's historical frame begins with a 1938 experiment and grows into a craft grounded in local tea leaves and processing.
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Lincang
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From Fresh Leaf to Dianhong Tea in Fengqing
Withering, rolling, oxidation and drying turn Fengqing large-leaf tea into Dianhong, a process distinct from Pu'er tea making.
Two Crops on Lincang’s Slopes
Dianhong black tea and coffee connect hillside cultivation to two different processing histories.
A Sheet Begins with Bark in Mangtuan
Mulberry bark passes through soaking, cooking, beating and sheet-forming before it becomes a surface for writing or wrapping.
Wengding’s Houses After the Fire
Thatched roofs and raised timber houses carry a recent history of loss, rebuilding and new fire protection.
A Circle Moving to the Wa Wooden Drum
In Cangyuan’s documented wooden-drum dance, linked hands, bending knees and a downward beat turn sound into collective movement.
A Path, a Barrier and a Painted Cliff
The protection of Cangyuan rock art also has a visible architecture: routes, signs and the distance kept between bodies and stone.
A Bow Drawn on a Cangyuan Cliff
A hunting image and photographs of rock-art site No. 1 bring the eye from a small red figure to the stone that carries it.