? 3.16. A group of people started from Menghai after lunch and drove for nearly three hours to reach the old village of Baotang, where Xibao No. 8 and Xibao No. 7 are located. The journey can be described as dusty, and the ancient tea trees that we have always admired before are full of expectation when we think of seeing them with our own eyes.
Stepping into this mountain forest, birds chirping in the mountain streams, wildflowers roaming open. The first thing you need to do is to take advantage of the wind and the white clouds to be your best friend. The Xibao No. 8 tea king tree, which we visited first, is now surrounded by a fence. The spreading branches cascading, more than seven hundred years of standing, silently watching the passing passers-by, year after year, day after day.
[ Xibao eight tea king tree, more than 1700 meters above sea level, according to evidence that the age of the tree is more than 700 years. Tree height of about 9.2 meters, the crown diameter of 7.7 meters, the base circumference of 2.1.m.]
Tasting Menghuang Song Baotang old Zhai old tree tea tea sex feelings: high incense and water soft, soup feeling delicate and full, the rhyme is obvious, like the sweetness of honey.
After a short break next to the Xibao No. 8 tea king tree, continue to climb the mountain to go to the top of the highest place. Ancient tree tea gardens are at the top of the mountain, almost no road to find. Rugged slopes, stick on, thorns and thistles, probably too much love for the mountains, the ancient tea plantations, the slightest forget to wear a skirt and sandals, all the way to the laughter just to see more than ever imagined many times the appearance of the ancient tea trees.
? The road to Xibao No. 7 is even more difficult to walk, there is a kind of mountain open mountain, river crossing feeling. The first step is to make sure that you have a good understanding of the situation, and that you have a good idea of what you are doing. It's really hard to appreciate a good cup of tea until you've experienced it yourself.
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This is the first time I've been to the airport. 3.17? Last night, Lin took us to eat the most unique barbecue in Menghai. This side of the barbecue is very interesting, the ingredients are well dipped in a variety of sauces to eat. The flavor is quite good, the ingredients are very fresh. Such a moment with the people together, it is inevitable to drink some wine, Lin brother brought his own put a few years of corn brewing, the entrance is soft, long aftertaste, I covet four cups before enjoying.
? When I went to the factory, it happened to rain a lot, all the way muddy and traveling. Deep Forest Tea Factory is located in the deep forest, according to the mountains, surrounded by vegetation, bird calls and the sound of rain together, like a symphony of mountains and forests. While the rain has not stopped, Lin went to the courtyard to pick a bunch of rain-soaked flowers, a handful of insertion, can be beautiful. People who love flowers are lovely. A faction of innocent Akagi's favorite, such as the mood of love tea, pure love.
While the rain has not stopped, set up a tea to listen to the rain fall.
3.18 The trip took more than two hours, and the road took eighteen turns before reaching the top of the mountain, where Man Hsi Old Village is located. The original inhabitants of Man Hai Old Walled City are the Browns, who used to hunt, but settled down after the tea business was well established. The people here are very hospitable, simple and kind, especially friendly. Rock brothers do lunch, local specialties rice, winter melon especially tender pink, home-raised chicken soup especially fresh, toon cold very good. They see us outsiders, or will be very shy and shy.
? The first thing you need to do is to get a good understanding of the Chinese language and the language of the people who live here. People here are good at drinking, and they can drink twice a day, and they can drink all the time. I thought I could drink a little bit, but compared to them, I am not as good as I thought. One side of the water and soil to raise a person, so pure and direct character and ancient tree Puerh really like, simple and pure, simple beauty to enjoy, its rhyme but long aftertaste.
? The Brown Mountain Man Hai Lao Zhai Ancient Tree Tea is a pure Brown Mountain Ancient Tree Tea that is not astringent no matter how strong it is brewed, but only has a sweet and fragrant flavor that comes from bitterness and sweetness.
? The best ancient tree tea is the one that is sweet and lubricating.
After lunch, the group drove for nearly half an hour to the bottom of the Man Hsi Ancient Tea Plantation, where they had to hike up. There is a large ancient tea garden, Xibao two hundred and eighty-three is in this ancient tea garden.
The ancient tea plantation's mountain residence is fragrant and fragrant, waiting for a person with a destiny. The top of the mountain on the Man Hai Lao Zhai ancient tea garden, tea trees are full of various parasites, moss can be seen everywhere.
The fun of visiting the mountain is that you look at the ancient tea garden, look at the landscape, look at the grass and trees, look at the growth of everything, and marvel at the magic of nature. In the moment of this encounter, you are with them, feeling their temperature and appreciating their gestures. Only a good ecological environment can produce good tea.
3.19? Coinciding with the opening of the Deep Forest Tea Factory pressing plant, experience a day in the life of the Jade Sisters. Like this important occasion, will kill pigs and cows, the surrounding villages of tea farmers will come over, Menghai eight o'clock before the day is considered dark, the dinner is also basically this time to start.
? Eat food is secondary, drinking is the main event, dozens of tables to take turns drinking, but also popular turn wine (started by the initiator, the same container, the initiator to choose the white or beer can be poured how much to drink how much and then received the next person with the same container to drink so much, and has been so rotating down). To be wine over three rounds, Dai sister dancing, fireworks bloom, not drunk then drink, so that they drink is always drink, drink until drunk, quite a kind of wine today drunk today feeling.
? Every local culture has wine, different character, different wine culture. Tea is also so, Yunnan Pu'er tea belongs to the large-leafed tea, tea sex than other types of tea is much rougher, with a pure bitter and sweet, bitter and sweet long sweet.
3.20 Today's place is a little further away, inside the Man Roll Nature Reserve, Menghong Shangzhai, the indigenous Dai people. Deep in the mountains and old forests of their own tea gardens, the entire Mengweng only this piece of ancient tea land.
? Meng Weng ancient tea garden, there is no road to walk, the slope is steeper, leaning on the stick are a little easy to slip. I admire the local people walking freely, but also can go up the tree to pick tea.
? The day, just the spring equinox. Day and night are cold and hot flat, everything is moving, the equinox is born. The forest grass and trees, wildflowers bloom alone. The tea trees are just starting to bud.
? Tasting Menghong Ancient Tea Plantation Ancient Tree Tea: the taste is similar to the soft sweetness of Yiwu tea, Menghong Song tea tea, sweet and fierce tea, both the strengths of the two, honey flavor slightly orchid and icing sugar fragrance.
? In the deep mountains and old forests, with a cup of good tea to interpret the true nature of Puerh tea sweet and lubricating thick. Tea nature such as human nature, the nature of the tea is noble to true, the nature of the person is noble to sincere. When tea is right, people are right. When people are right, tea is right. Drink the right tea with the right person.
? The five-day trip to visit the mountain, gently walked past the ancient tea trees. There is awe, there is awe, there is joy ... and this is just the tip of the iceberg of the Brown Mountain seventy-two cottages. Brown Mountain, seventy-two Zhai, Zhai Zhai is different, each place's tea flavor is not the same. Want to understand, need a long time to taste exercise and learning accumulation, Lin said from the quantitative to qualitative process needs at least seven to eight years of accumulation.
Ancient tree teas are grown on the mountain tops, and their total production is less than one-tenth of the total production of Puerh tea. The tea that you can drink to a good tea, is a blessing. The beauty of good tea without explaining too much, with the mouth to feel the tea rhyme, with the heart to experience the tea, its flavor endless, such as wine and food in general, worth recalling.
Before never been to the tea mountain, are from other people oral or pictures, tea tasting and other information to know the tea mountain, and the ancient tree tea is pushed by the market to the tip of the wave, the people are countless, its mysterious index is not less than a mirage. This time, I personally went to experience some feelings, before really feel the charm of the tea mountain.
? Dai is the former strong ethnic group in Yunnan, only the Dai have their own words and language, forming their own cultural characteristics. Their female status is low and they are more shy and coy when they see us outsiders. Their way of life is much simpler than ours, not so much colorful city culture, simple and plain, so happy and joyful.
? This close contact with the ancient tea tree, to understand the local humanities, y appreciate, drink tea, not only to drink a leaf story, not only the taste on the feeling of beauty, there is a tea outside the culture, a side of the regional characteristics of the people, which is not closely related to the Pu'er tea.
? Pu'er tea market water is too deep, in the peripheral market is difficult to have the right tea tasting learning. Lin said, too astringent tea is definitely not ancient tree tea, the aroma is not sharp enough tea is definitely not spring tea. These two are the truth, as for the difference between ancient tree tea and terrace tea need to drink many years from quantity to quality of a process. In the peripheral market can drink to the first spring of the small tree tea are very good. Most of the people tea mountain, basically pull the banner to take pictures on the go. ......
The tea road is long, its repair is far. The road of life is not stopped, then the tea road is not stopped. We are a group of tea lovers tea road walkers, never-ending.
(This graphic thanks to Mr. Lin Libin, Deep Mountain Old Forest Tea Factory, let us realize what really good tea)