Dawan Village: tools, tea and the mountain household
A farming-customs hall and tea-growing village bring everyday objects into the story of the Dabie foothills.
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The Dabie foothills meet tea craft, mountain households and village heritage across western Anhui.
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Lu'an Guapian: the leaf without bud or stalk
The tea's recognizable leaf shape leads into a precise finishing process over charcoal, turning repeated hand motions into flavor and form.
Huoshan dendrobium: growing an orchid between stone and bark
A township cultivation guide documents how growers manage substrate, shade and water for a protected local plant.
Jinzhai's old houses on a mountain map
Named ancestral halls, old residences and bridges appear in an official heritage register, while village protection links repair with community use.
Photo credits and rights
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Dawan village in the Dabie Mountains, shown among fields and wooded slopes.Photographer not credited on the source page · Rights unknown; selected under the established official-source policy Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Original downloaded from the cited official page; unretouched, not enlarged. Original is private. Rights remain unknown.
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Lu’an melon-seed tea photographed by PanShiBo in 2011 and uploaded to Wikimedia Commons in 2012. This is a standard 500-pixel Commons thumbnail of the 600 × 399 source image; it shows the dry leaves, not a tea field or a processing scene.PanShiBo · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Commons file page identifies PanShiBo as the photographer, dates the photograph to 30 August 2012 (description: “Lu’an Melon Seed tea, 2011”), and grants CC BY-SA 3.0. The saved file is the 500px standard thumbnail returned by Commons imageinfo, not the 600 × 399 upstream file. Attribution and licence link retained; no edits to the thumbnail other than a proportional WebP display rendition.
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Figure 1 from Jin et al.’s 2016 study shows cultivated Dendrobium officinale (A, left) and D. huoshanense (B, right) seedlings in a Hefei greenhouse.Qing Jin, Chunyan Jiao, Shiwei Sun, Cheng Song, Yongping Cai, Yi Lin, Honghong Fan, and Yanfang Zhu · Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Full published figure retained from the PLOS ONE article (2244×800 PNG); not cropped or redrawn. The paper states CC BY 4.0, and the Figure 1 caption identifies the right-hand B plant as cultivated D. huoshanense. PLOS lists the greenhouse in Hefei, Anhui. Attribution: Jin et al., PLOS ONE 11(1), e0146607 (2016). The source does not show a Huoshan farm or wild habitat.
