春茶
Mar 1 – Apr 30
As for Jingmai: March-April main season. The best spring tea is offered at the April Shankang festival.
芒景
Mangjing
Blang administrative village on the south side of Jingmai Mountain (Wengji, Mangjing Shangzhai/Xiazhai, Manghong, Wengwa); keeper of the Pa'aileng tea-ancestor cult.
- Level
- Villageadministrative village (行政村)
- Within
- Yunnan › Pu'er Prefecture › Lancang › Jingmai Mountain
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
Picking calendar#
Cultivation#
- Cultivars grown
- Yunnan large-leaf
- Practice
- Under-forest old tea gardens, each with a tea-soul tree (茶魂树) kept as the guardian of the garden.
People#
- Blang 布朗族
- Majority group of Mangjing. Pa'aileng (帕哎冷) is their tea ancestor, said to have been saved from an epidemic by a tea leaf and to have settled his people here.
History#
- 2023-09-17Mangjing's five villages and tea forests inscribed as part of the Jingmai World Heritage site.
Other names and written forms 4#
Chinese variants
- 芒景村Mangjing — villageMangjing administrative village, Huimin town, Lancang county.
- 翁基 Wengji, 翁洼 Wengwa, 芒洪 ManghongBlang hamlets of Mangjing (Wengji is often sold as its own origin).
Translations and trade names
- Mangjing Shangzhai/Xiazhai
- Wengji
Notes#
Mangjing is one of the two administrative villages in the Jingmai World Heritage zone. It is mainly Blang, while neighbouring Jingmai village is mainly Dai. Its five heritage villages are Wengji, Mangjing Shangzhai, Mangjing Xiazhai, Manghong and Wengwa. On Mangjing mountain stands the tea-soul platform (茶魂台), a stone terrace with a central pillar nearly 3 m tall. Each corner carries a set of five offering posts for the Blang, Dai, Hani, Lahu and Wa. Each April the Blang hold the Shankang tea-ancestor festival there and offer the year's best spring tea to Pa'aileng. A separating forest belt (PF-03) divides the Jingmai and Mangjing tea forests. Vendors often sell 'Mangjing' or 'Wengji' as distinct from 'Jingmai'.