大理
Dali
Bai autonomous prefecture in western Yunnan; seat of the Xiaguan Tea Factory and its tuocha; Dali City, Yongping, Yunlong, Nanjian and Weishan lie in the pu'er GI area.
- Level
- Prefecture
- Within
- Yunnan
At a glance#
- Location
- Representative point for Dali City from its named OpenStreetMap city node; not the geographic centre of Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture.
Where it lies#
Tea places nearby, plotted by their coordinates. Only physical positions are shown, no boundaries.
2411 places shown Across the view · 909 km
33 places shown Across the view · 122 km
People#
- Bai 白族
- The national heritage entry identifies Yongchangxiang as a Bai merchant house from Xizhou and attributes the Xiaguan tuocha craft to Bai communities.
Market#
- Trading towns
- Xiaguan
History#
- 1902Yongchangxiang of Xizhou creates tuocha at Xiaguan.
- 1941Kangzang Tea Factory founded at Xiaguan.
- 2011Xiaguan tuocha making technique listed as national intangible cultural heritage (third batch, VIII-152).
Other names and written forms 1#
Chinese variants
- 大理白族自治州Dali — Bai autonomous prefectureFull name: Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture.
Names and ambiguities#
Notes#
Xiaguan is a historic centre for tea processing and trade within Dali. The national heritage entry attributes tuocha to the Xizhou Bai merchant house Yongchangxiang in 1902. The Kangzang Tea Factory, predecessor of the Xiaguan Tea Factory, was founded in 1941. Pressed tea travelled from Xiaguan along the tea-horse roads to north-west Yunnan, Tibet and Sichuan. Within the prefecture, the pu'er GI includes Dali City (Xiaguan, Dali, Fengyi, Wanqiao and Yinqiao towns), Yongping, Yunlong, Nanjian and Weishan.
Places within#
下关
Xiaguan Xiàguān
Seat of Dali at the south end of Erhai; birthplace of tuocha (1902) and home of the Xiaguan Tea Factory (1941), the main maker of compressed border tea for Tibet.
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南涧
Nanjian Nánjiàn
Yi autonomous county in southern Dali on the northern Wuliang Mountains; inside the pu'er GI, with tea at Luobuke and a Wuliang Mountains cherry-and-tea garden at 1,800-2,400 m.
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