Nogan is a village in the Jingmai Mountains

Nogan Village is located in Jingmai Village Committee, Lancang Lahu Autonomous County, Pu'er City, Yunnan Province, 6 kilometers away from the committee and 26 kilometers away from the county. The area is 5.55 square kilometers, the altitude is 1450 meters, the average annual temperature is 19.4 degrees Celsius, the average annual precipitation is 1800 mm.

Nogan is a village with a thousand-year history, located among the huge ancient plantations of Jingmai and Manjing tea. The name of the village in the language of the Dai people means a drinking source for deer. According to legend, deer often came to these places to drink, because the purest mountain streams flow here, but there is also a version that in the names Nogan, Nogan, Nokan the syllable "No" means a reservoir, and the syllable "Kan" means golden, then the name of the village is translated as a golden lotus in a reservoir. These poetic names indicate to us a blooming fertile land. The village is surrounded by mountains on 4 sides, once the Dai people stopped here. This is a classic closed-type village of the Dai people, located in a gorge and surrounded on all sides by dense forest, old tea trees and a leisurely mountain stream. Ancient houses are built on piles.

According to locals, decades ago, when tea prices were low, this village along with others in Jingmai began to grow sugar cane, paddy and other crops to increase their income. But in recent years, with the rise in the price of Pu'er , the entire village's income depends only on tea. Locals grow other crops out of habit, but only for their own consumption. The government maintains the image of the old village by not allowing new types of houses to be built there, and according to the tradition of the Dai people, only a house with similar architecture can be built on the site of an old house, especially one that has burned down.

There are more than 20 centenarians in the village, over 90 years old, many of them continue to work - going to the mountains to pick tea.
Due to the current restrictions on construction, some residents built new houses away from the village, thus forming a new village of Nogan. The old village of Nogan is listed as one of the 8 most beautiful traditional villages in the Jingmai Mountains.