春茶
First-flush maocha sun-dried in April (vendor, 2019 and 2026).
帕沙
Pasha
Hani (Aini) administrative village of Gelanghe township south-west of Nannuo; about 3,000 mu of old gardens at about 1,600–1,800 m, mist-bound most of the year.
- Level
- Mountainadministrative village (帕沙村, Gelanghe Hani township 格朗和哈尼族乡)
- Within
- Yunnan › Xishuangbanna › Menghai
At a glance#
Where it lies#
Tea places nearby, plotted by their coordinates. Only physical positions are shown, no boundaries.
1912 places shown Across the view · 198 km
65 places shown Across the view · 68 km
Altitude#
Garden elevations here and in neighbouring places, as sourced.
Picking calendar#
谷花茶
Autumn Pasha leaf is pressed separately by vendors (2011, 2012 autumn cakes); no dates found.
Terroir#
- Slope and light
- Fog-covered most of the year with high rainfall (vendor). The township page gives Pasha 22 °C mean, which is implausible at this altitude against the township's 17–18 °C (not used).
Cultivation#
- Cultivars grown
- Yunnan large-leaf
- Landraces
- Small-arbor (小乔木) type trees per the township page.
- Plant age
- Old trees put at 800+ years (township page, claim); vendors cite 100–250-year old-arbor lots.
Local words#
| Local words | Dialect | |
|---|---|---|
| Pasha Hanyu Pinyin of 帕沙 | Hani (Aini) | Said to mean 'tall, straight forest' in Aini (vendor; Aini form not given) |
People#
- Hani (Aini) 哈尼族
- Gelanghe township is 87% Hani; vendors name the Pasha people as Aini (爱尼), a Hani subgroup.
Market#
- Prices of teas claiming this origin
- Kunming spring-price release, 23 April 2020 (as reported): Pasha Zhongzhai 1,600–9,000 yuan/kg (very wide range, presumably from small trees to selected old-tree lots).
Other names and written forms 3#
Chinese variants
- 帕沙山Pasha — mountain
- 帕沙老寨 / 中寨 / 新寨Pasha Laozhai / Zhongzhai / Xinzhai — old / middle / new villageOld, middle and new villages; the 2020 price release lists Pasha Zhongzhai.
Romanisations
- Pa Sha
Notes#
Pasha covers 61.78 km² between about 1,200 and 2,000 m, with six villager groups, 439 households and 1,879 people (2017 township page). Its ancient tea gardens total about 3,000 mu in five separate gardens, with trees said to be over 800 years old and the oldest planting traced (by local claim) to the Tang dynasty. Vendor notes say the Aini settled Pasha over 300 years ago from the Jinghong and Damenglong areas, that the name is Aini for 'tall, straight forest', and that the tea-producing zone is about 1,600–1,800 m (peak 1,850 m, average 1,700 m). The same vendor claims Pasha people founded the Banzhang settlement about 130 years ago (unverified). Coordinates are the OSM node 帕沙村 (do not confuse with a Pasha in Myanmar's Wa area further south).