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.
Mengding Mountain
Mengding's five peaks are associated with the earliest named tea tradition in Sichuan. The mountain is still planted, picked and visited.
Mengding Mountain
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.
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Stone steps of the tea horse road on Mengding MountainNekitarc / CC BY-SA 4.0 · CC BY-SA 4.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Orientation normalised, proportionally resized and encoded as WebP; no crop or retouch.