Hekai Tea Mountain
Mount Hekai or He Kai (in Chinese 贺开山, Hèkāi shān) is an area that has been perfectly preserved to this day, it is one of the oldest mountains in Yunnan Province. The age of the local gardens is more than 1500 years, almost the entire area of the area is occupied by mountain ranges. The trees mainly grow in a natural environment, which allows puer from such mountainous places to be rich and rich in nutrients, which it feeds on from nature and the Sun.
Hekai is a mountain located in the southeast of Menghai County, its northern border intersects with the famous Nannuo Tea Mountain. The tea mountain includes Menghun City, 2 villages and 7 mountain villages at an altitude of 1400-1700 meters above sea level. Hekai tea gardens are mainly divided into 3 mountain villages with the Lahu ethnic group living there.
The La Hu (in Chinese 拉祜族, Lāhùzú) are one of the many ethnic groups (there are 56 of them) that inhabit the tea mountains of Yunnan. The La Hu are also famous as "tiger hunters", although in addition to hunting, the La Hu have long been considered excellent tea farmers; like all the minorities of the tea regions of Yunnan, the La Hu are engaged in hunting, fishing and agriculture, including growing tea.
The language spoken by the La Hu belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language family and, until recently, this people did not have a written language. Even with the recent appearance of writing, the La Hu have many legends and stories about the appearance of this people, about their difficult life in the wild mountain forests.
The area of Hekai Shan tea gardens is approximately 7,000 mu (a unit of area equal to 1/15 hectares). Among them is the famous tree – Cha Wang or Tea Emperor (in Chinese 茶王, chá wáng), which is the largest and oldest cultivated tea tree, it grows at an altitude of 1,600 meters, the age of the tree is about 800 years.
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