Mangzhi
Xiangming mountain with gardens since the Yuan; Niuguntang was the northern six mountains' tea market under Kangxi; few old trees remain.
- Level
- Mountain
- Within
- Yunnan › Xishuangbanna › Mengla › Xiangming
Where it lies#
Tea places nearby, plotted by their coordinates. Only physical positions are shown, no boundaries.
Local words#
People#
- Yi 彝族
- Xiangming's titular group; Anle area villages.
Market#
- Trading towns
- Niuguntang 牛滚塘 (historical)
History#
- 1661Kangxi era (1661–1722): Niuguntang becomes the main tea market of the northern six mountains (year is reign start, not event date).
- 1861Late Xianfeng (c. 1861): armed feuds empty the mountain and gardens decay (approximate).
- 19801980s: gradual recovery of the gardens.
Other names and written forms 2#
- 莽枝茶山Mangzhi — tea mountain
- Mang Zhi
Notes#
Mangzhi is in Anle administrative village, Xiangming, beside Gedeng, roughly 15–16 km wide and over 30 km long. It had contiguous gardens by the Yuan; Central-Plains merchants traded here by the late Ming, and under Kangxi its market Niuguntang (牛滚塘) was a key collecting point for the northern six mountains — locally said to predate Pu'er prefecture. Armed feuds in the late Xianfeng period drove farmers away and gardens were abandoned; recovery came only in the 1980s, and about 970 mu of old garden remain, with trees scattered among villages. A scholar's surveys found old-tree density falling from over 200 per mu to about 80.