What is Pu'er tea:
Tea, as one of the three major beverages in the world, has attracted more and more attention from experts from various countries for its effect in cultivating the body and mind. Pu'er is also known as the king of tea.
Pu'er tea is produced in Xishuangbanna and other places in Yunnan. It is named after it has been distributed in Pu'er since ancient times. (See the allusion of Pu'er tea) And due to Yunnan's year-round suitable temperature and rich soil nutrients in the highlands, the nutritional value of Pu'er is quite high.
Pu'er tea is the general name for various Yunnan pressed teas made by steaming green tea or black tea, including Tuocha, cake tea, square tea, tight tea, etc. The excellent quality of Pu'er tea not only reflects its aroma, taste and other drinking value, but also lies in its valuable medicinal effects and health care functions. <
The history of Pu'er tea can be traced back to the Eastern Han Dynasty. Two thousand years ago. There is a folk saying that "Wuhou's legacy" (Wuhou refers to Zhuge Liang, the prime minister during the Three Kingdoms period), so the cultivation and utilization of Pu'er tea has a history of at least more than 1,700 years.
Thousands of years ago. For hundreds of years, Pu'er tea has been favored by consumers because of its excellent quality.
Pu'er tea has its own unique processing procedures, which generally require several steps such as greening, rolling, drying, and stacking. Process. After the freshly picked tea leaves are cured, rolled and dried, they become Pu'er Maoqing. After the tea is made, it is divided into "Maoqing" due to the different subsequent processes. "Cooked tea" and "raw tea". After being piled and cooked, it becomes "cooked tea". After a long period of storage, when the taste is stable and clean, it can be sold. The storage time generally takes 2 -3 years. Ripe tea aged in dry warehouses for 5-8 years has been hailed as top quality. "Raw tea" refers to the process of natural transformation of raw tea into ripe tea without going through the stacking process. It takes at least 5-8 years to be suitable for consumption. However, after the ripe tea is fully mature, its aroma still retains a lively and vivid charm, and the longer the time, the more its internal aroma and vitality become more and more stable, thus forming a more mature Pu'er tea. Chen Yuexiang has also developed the tradition of Pu'er tea lovers collecting Pu'er tea.
With the development of the times and changes in production conditions, the production process of Pu'er tea today has changed compared with the past. The products are also different, but their style and quality are consistent.
Historically, Pu'er tea refers to green tea made from large-leaf tea produced in Xishuangbanna, the "Six Major Tea Mountains". As well as pressed tea of ??various specifications made from green mao tea, such as Pu'er square tea, Pu'er Tuo tea, Qizi cake tea, Tibetan pinned tea, round tea, bamboo tube tea, assembled loose tea, etc. During the process, the varieties of Pu'er tea have been constantly updated, forming their own unique product series.
Famous Pu'er tea products
The ancient "Six Tea Mountains" located in Xishuangbanna today were prosperous in the past. During this period, tea merchants opened tea-making shops and tea houses all over the tea mountains, and the traditional Pu'er tea making craftsmanship reached its peak. The Pu'er tea and its brands have remained popular through the ages due to their superior quality. Won the Imperial Palace Award from the Qing Dynasty.
Golden Melon Tribute Tea
Pu'er Gold Melon Tribute Tea is the best among the existing aged Pu'er teas in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. He is the "Pu'er Tea Supreme Emperor". The tea production began in the seventh year of Qingzheng (1729). The best Nv'er tea in Xishuangbanna was selected to make group tea, loose tea and tea paste to pay tribute to Chaoyan. Rentou tribute tea is a first-grade bud tea that is said to be picked by unmarried girls. The picked bud tea is usually placed in the girl's arms first, and when it accumulates to a certain amount, it is taken out and placed in a bamboo basket. This kind of bud tea will turn golden yellow after long-term storage, so Ren Tou Gong tea is also called Jin Gua Gong tea or Jin Gua Ren Tou Gong tea. It has a production history of more than 200 years. The processor of this product is Pu'er Gong Tea Factory. The raw materials and preliminary production come from Yibang Tea Mountain in Xishuangbanna.
Fuyuan Changyuan Tea
The two tea mountains of Yibang and Yiwu once performed the most glorious chapter of Pu'er tea in the Qing Dynasty.
The two tea houses, "Song Yun Hao" and "Yanchang Hao", were founded in the early years of Guangxu's reign, both located in the two tea hills of Yibang and Yiwu. Among them, the tea factory of "Yuan Chang Hao" located in Yiwu is called "Fu Yuanchang Hao", which is specially refined from the large leaf tea of ??Yiwu Mountain, which is different from the small leaf tea of ??Yibang. The oldest "Fuyuanchang round tea" was produced during the Guangxu period and has lasted for more than 100 years. "Pu'er Tea Records" says: "The century-old Fuyuanchang Round Tea enjoys the reputation of the 'King of Pu'er Tea'.
Tongqing Hao Laoyuan Tea
In the middle and late Qing Dynasty, relying on The Bang Tea Mountain declined, and the Yiwu Tea District emerged, gathering many tea merchants in Yunnan at that time. They set up factories to make tea, introduced advanced tea making technology, and used the delicate white tips of the large-leaf tea species to make tea, making Yiwu the largest tea producer in the world. Tongqinghao Tea House set up a tea factory in Yiwu in 1736 and has a history of tea making in Yiwu for more than a hundred years. p>
Tongqinghao round tea is divided into two types: Neipiao and Neifei. Before 1920, it was the "Longma trademark", and later it was the "Double Lion Flag Picture". The two are the best tea products before 1920. Product. Packed in the best bamboo baskets, the surface is light golden yellow. The bamboo strips and bamboo skin used for binding are similar in color to the bamboo baskets. The characteristics of Tongqinghao Laoyuan Tea are elegant and restrained, and it is the best among others. The extremely soft and beautiful tea is regarded as a national masterpiece and enjoys the reputation of "the queen of Pu'er tea"
Jingchang Yuan Tea
During the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, there were individual tea merchants. Jingchanghao (later changed to Xinchanghao) teahouse, which has become involved in the Pu'er tea export business, has a tea-making technology comparable to that of Tongqinghao Teahouse. They use the best and high-quality tea essence from Mansa to make "Qizi Cake Tea". Mainly, it is then transported to Laos by oxen or horseback, and then shipped to Vietnam, Dai, Hong Kong and other places for sale. The production process and packaging of Jingchang round tea are also fascinating. The pressing technology is first-class. The cake body is plump and full of charm. The edge of the cake is not atom thin and consistent, but has a strong sense of rhythm. It is comfortable to touch and beautiful to the eye. Its shape is convex and concave, the leaves are clearly arranged, and there is no other Pu'er tea in the world that can compete with its beauty of form. Most of the extant ones are products in the 1940s. Each cake is 20.5 cm in diameter and weighs 330cm. It has a wild camphor aroma and is extremely soft and melts in the mouth. It is the smoothest Pu'er tea.
Yangpinyuan Tea
In the early Qing Dynasty. In the long years before and after, it was Yibang Tea Mountain that played an important role in the history of tea culture. It was famous for growing small-leaf tea. Yangpinhao Tea House was built in the early years of the Republic of China and used Yibang small-leaf tea as its raw material. There are few "Yangpin Round Tea" made in existence. The cake body is small, about 19 cm in diameter, and each cake weighs about 280 grams. Each cake has a 5 This store is opened in Yibang Street. Please read the words "Yangpinhao" and "Yangpinhao" on the ticket. According to expert research and evaluation, "Yangpinyuan Tea" is the best existing tea. The tea is about 60 years old. Its tea soup is fragrant and slightly acidic. It is a typical Yibang small-leaf Pu'er tea.
Tongxinyuan tea
Tongxinyuan tea has " It is divided into "early" and "late". It was made by Tongxinhao Tea House. Tongxinhao Tea House was founded in 1733. It was originally named Shunxianghao, also known as Zhongxinxing, and the factory was set up in Yiwu Town. The tea products produced during the Qing Dynasty have now disappeared, and all the existing tea products are round cake tea produced between 1921 and 1949. The Tongxinxing round tea produced between 1921 and 1934 is called "Tongxing Zaoyuan tea". The tea produced between 1935 and 1949 is called "Tongxing late round tea". The Tongxing round tea produced during this period was produced in small quantities, and all of them were top quality.
No matter in the early or later period, the inner text of Tongxing Yuancha has the following words: "This name is not yet made, Yiwu Yibangshan Songding Shangbaijian Nender Tea" (Mansongding Shangding Tea Garden, in the old days, was synonymous with high-quality tea).
Around 1921, Tongxinghao Tea House produced 500 tons of tea and was one of the rich tea families at that time. The factory was set up in Yiwu, using tea leaves from Yibang as raw materials. The existing Tongxing round tea has an aging period of more than 70 years for the early ones and more than 60 years for the later ones. The two have similar tea properties, which is representative of Yibang Pu'er tea, and also shows the extraordinary tea-making skills of Tongxinghao Teahouse.
Tongchang Round Tea
Tongchang Tea House was founded in the seventh year of Tongzhi (1869). The tea house changed owners several times and there are three tea names.
The earliest Yuanchanghao round teas are no longer available, and those that still exist today are all teas labeled "Master Huang Wenxing" or "Master Tongchang Huangji" after the 1930s. "Tongchang round tea" has the best quality. The cake is thick and dark maroon, with flat and long ropes and thick pekoe. The tea greens integrated into the stems and leaves can be clearly seen. It is natural and beautiful, and the oil surface has an excellent luster. Tongchang round tea and Tongchang Huangji round tea use Yiwu tea green tea, but according to the tasting of tea masters, they should both be Yibang tea.
Dingxing Round Tea
Produced in the Menghai Tea Factory in 1940. Dingxinghao Tea House specializes in producing high-grade Pu'er tea products. There are currently three types of Dingxing round tea: red round tea, blue round tea and purple round tea. The differences are due to the different colors of the inner leaves. Red Yuan and Blue Yuan are similar in quality and have been aged for about 60 years. They are premium Pu'er teas, while Purple Yuan is inferior in quality. Red and blue, the color of the tea cake is darker, dark red, the strips are thick and rolled, the oil surface is shiny, and the cake body is thin, the purple round cake body is lighter in color, the tea leaves are mostly single-leaf old tea leaves, less oily, and the strips are The Suoru roll is looser and mixed with many yellow and thin leaves, and it is the thickest cake among Pu'er teas. The registered trademarks of Dingxing red and blue round teas are the "star and moon" pattern, and the words "This number is selected to be processed and kneaded by Lapsang's delicate rainy spring bud tea, and it is marked with a special anti-counterfeiting seal." (The original meaning of "Zhengshan" is Yiwu Mountain. In the old days, Yiwu Tea Mountain was famous for producing "Yangchun Tender White Tips".)
Ke Xing Brick Tea
Ke Xing Brick Tea House in 1925 Founded by Zhou Wenqing. The mid-to-late 1930s was its golden age, with about 1,200 tons of tea produced annually. Ke Xingzhuan tea is made from fine Menghai Pu'er tea green tea with thin black strips. It can be called a specimen of black Pu'er tea. There are still very few brick teas produced in the late 1940s in Taiwan, Hong Kong and other places. It tells people with facts that in a longer period of time, Menghai folk have begun to write the history of brick tea.
Hongtaichang Yuan Tea
Hongchanghao Tea House was founded in Yibang. It is another time-honored brand that produces and sells Pu'er tea, and is also a pioneer in the export of Pu'er tea. In the 1930s, Hongtaihao Tea House set up a branch in Thailand, named "Hongtaichanghao", and later set up agencies in Hong Kong and various parts of Southeast Asia. It can be called the first big fan of Pu'er tea in the history. "Pu'er Empire". The existing top-quality Pu'er tea has a shelf life of 70 years, and its quality is as good as any other large-leaf tea species. The headquarters of Hongchang Tea House has always been located in Yibang. Disappeared after the establishment of the People's Commune. The Hongchang No. 1 located in Thailand still exists today. It uses tea essences from Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar and other countries to make Hongtaichang Pu'er tea. Therefore, "Hongtaichang Round Tea" is the name of "Border Pu'er", which is the most common Pu'er tea. The representative is a Pu'er tea kingdom isolated overseas. Overseas, there is still a Pu'er tea kingdom established by the Chinese. This is indeed a meaningful Pu'er spirit.
Hongyin Round Tea
Hongyin Round Tea, also known as modern Pu'er tribute tea, was first produced in 1940 when Fan Hejun founded Fohai Tea Factory. The tea cakes have red markings on the inside, and the "Bazhong Tea" China Tea Company logo is printed on the front of the outer paper of the tea cakes. There is a red word "tea" in a circle composed of eight "中" characters. Among the Pu'er tea products produced by China Tea Company, the only ones with the "Bazhong Tea" logo and the word "tea" in red are the Red Seal Pu'er Round Tea and the Red Seal Yunnan Tuo Tea, which is unprecedented.
In addition to its historical value, the tea quality of Red Seal Pu'er round tea is also among the best in modern Pu'er tea. In addition to the plump tea leaves, plump cords, millet red color, shiny tea surface, red tea soup, and soft and fresh leaf bottoms, the tea content is completely buried in the center of the tea cake. It is made using an old-fashioned press mold and uses ancient production techniques. , are all navel-shaped cake tea, thick tea soup, with the fragrance of orchid or wild camphor, red-stamped round tea, which is one of the reasons why Menghai Tea Factory can stand out among the others in the history of modern Pu'er tea.
Green Seal Round Tea
Green Seal Round Tea was produced by the Menghai Tea Factory in the 1940s and 1950s, and is a sister product of "Red Seal". Menghai Green Seal Round Tea can be divided into early and late stages. Early Green Seal Round Tea is also called "Green Seal A and B Round Tea" or "Blue Seal A and B Round Tea". Gas and other aspects are first-class. The later green seal refers to the large-scale Pu'er tea produced by the Menghai Tea Factory in the 1950s and 1960s. Some tea products are made from new tree tea green tea, but are still made in the form of raw tea. They are called "Green Yinwei" and have extremely high collection value among the best Pu'er teas.
Paperless Green Seal Round Tea
Menghai Paperless Green Seal Round Tea is a series of Pu'er tea products produced by the Menghai Tea Factory in the 1950s and 1960s. "Paperless Green Seal Round Tea" is one of the later green seals and is a treasure in the eyes of collectors in the Pu'er tea industry today. This product uses tea cyanine from the Menghai arbor tea tree as raw material and is made in the form of raw tea. Therefore, it is also called "Green Seal Head" and "Green Seal Tail". The quality varies, and the superior one can be compared with Red Seal Comparable to round tea.
Red Lotus Round Tea
"Menghai Red Lotus Round Tea" is the best of the paperless green seals produced by the Menghai Tea Factory. It uses Yiwu tea green tea as raw material. They are the younger ones in the third to fifth grades. The tea is thick and smooth in nature, slightly sweet in taste, sweet in the throat, and has orchid fragrance that reaches the point of producing saliva on the tongue. It is named "Honglianyuan Tea".
Honglian round tea is made using traditional pressing molds. The body of the tea cake is wider than ordinary tea cakes, but thinner. The tea cakes are irregularly round, and some are even oval, and there are marks on the body of the cake. , the tea leaves are long and slender, with golden bud heads mixed in. The tea surface is gray-green, but has an oily sheen. The typical paperless green tea surface color is regarded by Taiwanese tea masters as the best Pu'er tea among the "green stamps".
Yellow Seal Round Tea and Qizi Cake Tea
"Yunnan Qizi Cake" is actually a modern green-seal Pu'er tea. It was produced by the Menghai Tea Factory in the 1950s and is known as It is called "Huangyin Yuan Tea" which is "the ancestor of modern Pu'er tea tea blends". Huangyin round tea has many hairs and turns into golden yellow after aging. Therefore, the tea cake is yellow, so the outer paper is marked with eight red Chinese characters in a circle. The word "tea" in the circle is yellow, and the inner mark is green. The word "tea".
In the 1960s, the blending process of "Yellow Seal Round Tea" was adopted. Menghai Tea Factory has launched a substitute for China Tea brand round tea, "Yunnan Qizi Cake". Among the "Qizi Cake", the "Red Belt Qizi Cake" and "Yellow Seal Qizi Cake" produced by Menghai Tea Factory are the most representative. "Red Belt Qizi Cake" was produced in the 1970s and is made from raw tea, while "Blue Seal Qizi Cake" was produced in the 1980s and is a blend of lightly cooked tea.
"Red Ribbon Seven Pieces Cake" is often regarded as a symbol of "Mid-Autumn Festival Reunion" in the Chinese world in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Southeast Asia. The dream of the hometown is tied to it with one cake, and the love of tea and nostalgia , the love of home, Pu'er tea is the sustenance. This product brand is a priceless treasure, selling well in dozens of countries and regions, and is an inspection-free product for export.
Menghai Daughter's Tea
Menghai's modern Daughter's Tea is called "White Needle Golden Lotus" by Hong Kong tea merchants. This product was produced by the Menghai Tea Factory in the 1970s.
The best white needle, the tea green color is green maroon with golden buds, there is a thin layer of white frost, and there is a faint smell of lotus. It is made of 2/3 slightly cooked or raw tea. One of the most advanced modern Pu'er teas. The tea soup has a smooth texture, a pleasant aftertaste, a strong tea aroma, and a new tea flavor. It is the best Pu'er tea that is worth collecting and allowing it to continue aging. "Modern Naughty Tea" is an outstanding representative of Pu'er loose tea today.
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Effects of Pu'er tea:< /p>
Tea has been discovered and used by humans and continues to this day. The most important thing is that it has many health care effects. Professor Lin Qianliang summarized the therapeutic effects of tea into the following aspects, namely: less sleep, calming the mind, improving eyesight, clearing the head and eyes, quenching thirst and promoting fluid production, clearing away heat, relieving heat, detoxifying, digesting, removing fat, reducing qi, diluting water, and laxative. It can remove phlegm, dispel wind and relieve external symptoms, strengthen teeth, treat heartache, treat sores and impotence, cure hunger, replenish energy and strength, prolong life and so on. Scientific research shows that in addition to having the above functions like other teas, modern research has confirmed that Pu'er tea has more outstanding effects in the following aspects:
1. Lowering lipids, losing weight, lowering blood pressure, and resisting arteriosclerosis . Dr. Emile Carrobi, director of clinical teaching at Saint-Antoine School of Medicine in Paris, France, used Yunnan Pu'er Tuo tea in clinical trials to prove: "Yunnan Pu'er tea has a good effect on reducing lipid content and cholesterol content." China's Kunming Medical College also conducted a clinical trial on 55 cases of Yunnan Pu'er Tuo tea in the treatment of hyperlipidemia, and compared it with 31 cases treated with Clofibrin, a drug with better lipid-lowering effect. Pu'er tea was more effective than Clofibrin. Long-term drinking of Pu'er tea can reduce cholesterol and glyceride, so long-term drinking of Pu'er tea has the effect of treating obesity. Drinking Pu'er tea can cause physiological effects such as vasodilation, lowering of blood pressure, slowing of heart rate and reduction of cerebral blood flow, so it has a good therapeutic effect on patients with hypertension and cerebral arteriosclerosis.
2. Prevent and fight cancer. Professors Liang Mingda and Hu Meiying used cell culture and electron microscopy methods to conduct research on the anti-cancer effect of Pu'er tea for more than ten years. They found that Pu'er tea has the strongest effect on killing cancer cells, even at a concentration of 1% of the tea consumed by ordinary people. That is, it has an obvious effect. Drinking Pu'er tea can prevent cancer.
3. Nourish and protect the stomach.
At an appropriate concentration, drinking mild Pu'er tea will not cause irritation to the gastrointestinal tract. The thick, smooth, and mellow Pu'er tea enters the human gastrointestinal tract and forms a membrane that adheres to the surface of the stomach, forming a beneficial protective layer for the stomach. Long-term drinking Pu'er tea can nourish and protect the stomach.
4. Maintain healthy teeth and protect your teeth. Pu'er tea contains many physiologically active ingredients, which have the effect of sterilization and disinfection. Professor Cao Jin of Hunan Medical University used Pu'er Teeth Tea to inhibit the adhesion of Proteus and found that Pu'er Teeth Tea has the effect of antibacterial plaque formation at a concentration of 1%. The effect is best when
5. Anti-inflammatory, sterilizing and treating dysentery. Research in the medical field and clinical experiments have proven that Yunnan Pu'er tea has antibacterial effects, and strong tea juice taken ten times a day can treat bacterial dysentery. This is directly related to the rich tea polyphenols in Yunnan large-leaf tea.
6. Anti-aging. The catechins in tea have anti-aging effects. The total amount of catechins contained in Yunnan large-leaf tea is higher than that of other tea varieties, and its anti-aging effect is better than that of other teas. At the same time, during the processing of Pu'er tea, macromolecular polysaccharides are converted into a large number of new soluble monosaccharides and oligosaccharides, and vitamin C is doubled. These substances play an important role in improving the function of the human immune system. It has the effect of maintaining good health and prolonging life.
Pu'er tea classification:
Pu'er tea can be divided into 2 types according to its shape:
- Loose tea:
Pu'er tea still maintains The original scattered leaf shape of the tea leaves has not been pressed by gravity and has not been pressed into a special shape, so it is loose tea. Scattered Pu'er tea is helpful for those who are new to Pu'er tea and can carefully observe the shape and color of the leaves. It is also convenient to touch the leaves and feel the feel of the Pu'er tea leaves.
- Pressed tea:
Pu'er tea is pressed by gravity during the production process into certain shapes such as round cakes (Menghai Dayi Brand Qizi Cake Tea), large and small Different types of Tuo tea (Xiaguan Tuo tea), square tea (Fang tea from Yunnan Tea Factory), brick tea (Pu'er brick tea from Yunnan Livestock Products Import and Export Company). Pressed tea is said to have been invented for easy transportation and good storage. Many raw teas are made into the shape of cake tea, while most cooked teas are in the shape of bricks. The tea leaves that have been pressed in the middle of the bricks for a long time have better natural post-fermentation conditions, giving them a better taste.
Pu'er can be divided into two types according to the production process:
- Sheng Pu
Fresh tea leaves are picked and aged in a natural way without fermentation. Processed as raw tea. Raw tea is strong and irritating. Newly made or aged raw tea has a strong bitter taste and color, and the soup color is lighter or yellow-green. Raw tea is suitable for long-term storage by those who love Pu'er. It can be displayed at home. Year after year, watching the color of the raw Pu'er leaves gradually become darker and the fragrance becoming more and more mellow, it is like the accumulation of life experiences, which brings endless pleasure and joy. excited. Of course, the value of Pu'er will also increase year by year.
- Ripe Pu'er
Pu'er tea undergoes fermentation during the production process to make the tea milder, so it is called ripe tea. After the Menghai Tea Factory and Kunming Tea Factory jointly developed the Wodui fermentation method in 1973, the tea bricks produced by Kunming Tea Factory that year were highly praised by Pu'er tea drinkers for their golden and moist tea soup and rich ginseng and jujube flavor. Cooked Pu has a mild tea quality, and the tea is silky smooth and mellow, making it more suitable for daily drinking. Of course, if you have a piece of high-quality cooked Pu, the cooked Pu is also worth collecting. Similarly, the aroma of cooked Pu will still become smoother and richer with aging time.
Pu'er tea can be divided into two types according to the fermentation environment:
- Dry warehouse Pu'er:
The name of Pu'er that is fermented by being aged in a dry environment It is dry warehouse Pu'er. High-quality Pu'er is always carefully aged in a dry and ventilated environment during its fermentation and natural aging process. Only in this way can we ensure the hygienic quality of Pu'er and no mold spots. Pu'er aged in dry warehouses has a milder taste, but has better hygienic quality and health protection. All Pu'er sold by Jinjings are dry warehouse Pu'er.
- Wet warehouse Pu'er:
Pu'er that is aged in a humid environment to ferment is called wet warehouse Pu'er. Usually wet warehouse Pu'er is aged in a humid environment in a closed cellar to accelerate fermentation. Wet warehouse fermentation shortens the fermentation time and makes the taste richer, but mildew usually occurs. If mold is seen on the surface of the tea or there is a moldy smell when asked, the hygienic condition is poor. Due to quality and hygiene considerations, Jinjings does not recommend that you drink wet warehouse Pu'er.
Allusions to Pu'er:
Pu'er is also called Pu-er or Pu-erh in English.
Pu'er tea is produced in Xishuangbanna and other places in Yunnan. It is named after it has been distributed in Pu'er since ancient times. Pu'er County, also known as Pu'er Hani Autonomous County, belongs to Simao Prefecture and is located in southern Yunnan Province, 373 kilometers away from Kunming. It was originally called Ning'er County. "Pu'er" is Hani language, "Pu" means village, and "er" means water bay, which means "water bay village" and has the connotation of friendly "homeland".
The history of Pu'er tea can be traced back to the Eastern Han Dynasty, which is 2,000 years ago. There is a folk saying that "Wuhou's legacy" (Wuhou refers to Zhuge Liang, the prime minister during the Three Kingdoms period), so the cultivation and utilization of Pu'er tea has a history of at least more than 1,700 years.
In the Tang Dynasty, Pu'er was named Buyi, which belongs to the tea category. Yinsheng Jiedu (today's Simao and Xishuangbanna areas), Yinsheng tea is the predecessor of Pu'er tea. It was called Pu'er tea in the Yuan Dynasty. It was only named Pu'er tea in the Wanli year of the Ming Dynasty. Its peak period was in the Qing Dynasty, as shown in "Pu'er Prefecture Chronicles" " records: "Pu'er belongs to the six major tea mountains...800 miles around, and more than 100,000 people went to the mountains to make tea." This shows the grand occasion at that time. Simao and Xishuangbanna are its main raw material production areas. Pu'er and Simao have become processing and distribution centers. During the Ming Dynasty, six ancient Tea Horse Roads radiated outwards with Pu'er as the center, marketing Pu'er tea to mainland China, Tibet, Vietnam, Myanmar, and Thailand. and other places, and transshipped to Hong Kong, Macao, Southeast Asia, and even Europe. After the 23rd year of Guangxu (AD 1897), France and the United Kingdom successively set up customs in Simao, which increased the export of Pu'er tea. The Pu'er Ancient Tea Horse Road prospered accordingly, and now there is also the Simao Kafanggaojiufang Ancient Tea Horse Road. 1.5 meters wide and intermittent for several kilometers: there are the Ancient Tea Horse Road outside Simao Sanzhong Village and the Nakori Ancient Tea Horse Road, which are intermittent for 30 kilometers; the Ancient Tea Horse Road in Pu'er Tea Antang remains for 12.5 kilometers, and horseshoe prints are recorded on the stone. The history of the tea caravans back then.