春茶
Spring 2017 prices (Zhanglang old trees): fresh leaf 150 yuan/kg, dry 800 yuan/kg.
巴达巴達
Bada Mountain
Bulang–Hani tea area in Xiding township on the Myanmar border, known for the 1,700-year wild 'Bada tea king' (now dead) on Dahei Mountain and Zhanglang old gardens.
- Level
- Mountainarea in Xiding Hani-Bulang ethnic township (西定哈尼族布朗族乡): Manwa (曼佤) and Zhanglang (章朗) village committees
- Within
- Yunnan › Xishuangbanna › Menghai
At a glance#
- Output
- Manwa village committee only.
Where it lies#
Tea places nearby, plotted by their coordinates. Only physical positions are shown, no boundaries.
108 places shown Across the view · 104 km
11 places shown Across the view · 45 km
Altitude#
Garden elevations here and in neighbouring places, as sourced.
Picking calendar#
雨水茶
Rainy season May–October; Zhanglang old-tree rain-season leaf 40 yuan/kg fresh, 120 yuan/kg dry (2017).
Terroir#
- Slope and light
- Manwa committee figures (1,700 m). Zhanglang: 1,330 m, 21.5 °C, 1,530 mm. Vendor notes a southern-slope wild-growing (野放) garden.
Cultivation#
- Cultivars grown
- Yunnan large-leaf
- Landraces
- Wild-type tea trees on Dahei Mountain (over 3,000 mu) besides cultivated large-leaf gardens.
- Plant age
- Zhanglang 938 mu ancient trees; 28 trees designated for key protection after 2004/2014 surveys.
- Practice
- Yields: Zhanglang old trees 15 kg/mu, terrace 25 kg/mu; Manwa 35 kg/mu (2016).
Local words#
People#
- Bulang (Blang) 布朗族
- Main group in Manwa with the Hani.
- Hani 哈尼族
- Main group in Manwa with the Bulang.
Market#
- Output
- Manwa village committee only.
- Prices of teas claiming this origin
- Spring 2017 (government, dry tea yuan/kg): Zhanglang old trees 800, terrace 100; Manwa general tea 90; Manmai old trees 430. Kunming spring-price release, 23 April 2020: 'Bada Zhanglang' old-tree 1,500–1,600, arbor 250.
History#
- 2013-08Zhanglang village listed in the second batch of traditional Chinese villages.
- 20142004 ancient-tree survey supplemented; 28 trees designated for key protection.
Other names and written forms 5#
Chinese variants
- 巴达山Bada — mountain
- 章朗(Zhanglang)Bulang village usually sold under Bada; en Wikipedia lists Zhanglang and Manmai as Bada terroirs.
- 贺松(Hesong)Village near the Bada wild tea king on Dahei Mountain.
Romanisations
- Ba Da
Translations and trade names
- Bada Shan
Names and ambiguities#
Notes#
Bada lies in western Menghai near the Myanmar border, in Xiding Hani-Bulang township (highest point Xiao Heishan 2,249 m, lowest 668 m). The Manwa (曼佤) village committee, about 1,700 m, mainly Bulang and Hani, is described as the 'home of the tea king': the wild Bada tea king on Dahei Mountain (大黑山) above Hesong (贺松) was said to be over 1,700 years old and has died ('已仙逝'); the zh Wikipedia Bulang article gives its height as over 34 m. Dahei Mountain has over 3,000 mu of wild ancient tea. Manwa had 6,367 mu of tea (193.4 t in 2016). Zhanglang (章朗, about 1,330 m, 21.5 °C, 1,530 mm) has 938 mu of ancient trees in its old, new and middle villages and was named a traditional Chinese village in 2013. Township-wide old-tree tea is only 2,765 of 58,605 mu (about 5%, inference). The township's rainy season runs May–October, with sea-of-cloud fogs in November–December. Coordinates are the OSM node 巴达; Hesong is about 5 km south-east.