邦崴
Bangwei
Village of Fudong township, Lancang, home of the Bangwei 'transitional' ancient tea tree (11.8 m), reported in 1991, endorsed by experts in 1993 and shown on a 1997 stamp.
- Level
- Villagevillage (村) of Fudong township (富东乡)
- Within
- Yunnan › Pu'er Prefecture › Lancang
At a glance#
Where it lies#
Tea places nearby, plotted by their coordinates. Only physical positions are shown, no boundaries.
43 places shown Across the view · 213 km
11 places shown Across the view · 32 km
Cultivation#
- Plant age
- The tea king tree: about 1,000 years (most accounts) or over 1,700 years (People's Daily Online). Village old-tree area about 700 'acres' (2016).
Local words#
Market#
- Output
- Tea king tree about 15 kg a year (2017). No village tonnage in the sources opened.
- Prices of teas claiming this origin
- 2020 Kunming spring reference price: Bangwei old tree 600-1,000 yuan/kg. The tea king tree's own leaf is auctioned separately.
Misnaming to watch for: 'Bangwei' on a label usually means tea from the village's other old trees, not the tea king tree, whose output is about 15 kg a year.
History#
- 1991Yunnan tea experts report the Bangwei big tea tree.
- 1993Over 180 tea scientists from nine countries study and endorse it as a transitional-type tree.
- 1997The tree appears on the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications' 'Tea tree' stamp.
- 2017500 g of sun-dried leaf from the tree sells for 180,000 yuan (360 yuan/g) at the 15th China Pu'er Tea Festival.
Other names and written forms 4#
Chinese variants
- 邦崴过渡型古茶树Bangwei — transitional-type ancient tea treeThe Bangwei transitional-type ancient tea tree, the village's famous 'tea king'.
- 邦崴茶王树Bangwei — tea king treeBangwei tea king tree.
Romanisations
- Bang Wei
Translations and trade names
- BangwaiSpelling used by People's Daily Online (2016); 崴 has two readings, wēi and wǎi.
Names and ambiguities#
Notes#
Bangwei is a village of Fudong township in Lancang Lahu Autonomous County. Its fame rests on one tree, described as a transitional type (过渡型) between wild and cultivated tea: 11.8 m tall, crown 8.2 × 9 m, trunk 1.14 m across at the base. Tea experts reported it in 1991; in 1993 over 180 tea scientists from nine countries studied and endorsed it, and in 1997 the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications put it on the 'Tea tree' (《茶树》) stamp. A trade account says the Wei family who owned it sold it to the government for 2,600 yuan. The tree yields about 15 kg a year and is still picked; in 2017, 500 g of its sun-dried leaf sold for 180,000 yuan at the 15th China Pu'er Tea Festival. People's Daily Online (2016) gives the village 780 households, over 3,000 'acres' of tea and about 700 'acres' of old trees with trunks over 10 cm (probably mu). OpenStreetMap places the tree about 0.5 km north-west of the village node.
Listings claiming this origin 1#
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Pu'er Tee - Shou Bangwei Gucha Cake Pest.Free
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€195.90 / 357 g | $61.54 €54.87 / 100 g ≈ $4.31 a session |
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