The pelt in the Li house
In 1869 a French naturalist saw a black-and-white pelt in a Baoxing farmhouse. The animal became the giant panda.
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The first tea, on the fifth peak
Mengding's tea tradition begins with seven trees on a peak, a Song tribute garden and a set of stone steps still used by pickers.
The hand before the name
On Mengding the picking is done by hand, in spring, on terraces steep enough to explain why. The famous name comes later, in the workshop.