Western Han Dynasty
In the third year of Ganlu (53 BC), Wu Lizhen, a native of Mengshan County, domesticated wild tea trees in Mengding Mountain, studied tea-making technology, and pioneered artificial tea planting in the world. .
Tao Gu's "Qing Yi Lu" records: "Wu Lizhen lived in Mengding and planted tea in his nunnery for three years. The taste is perfect, and the best ones are called 'Shengyanghua' and 'Jixiang Rui'." Mengding Mountain is the earliest place in the world where written tea is grown artificially.
Tang Dynasty
In the first year of Tianbao reign of Emperor Xuanzong (AD 742), Mengding tea began to be paid tribute to the royal family.
In the 8th year of Yuanhe of Xianzong (813 AD), Li Jifu wrote "Yuanhe County Map": Mengshan Mountain in Yandao County is ten miles south of the county. Today, tribute is paid every year. Tea is the best in Shu.
In 816 AD, Yang Ye's "Shan Fu Jing Shu Lu" recorded: "Shu tea got its name Meng Ding. Before the Yuan Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty, the silk could not be bundled with a pound of silk before spring Meng Ding."
In 825 AD, Li Zhao wrote "Supplement to the History of the Tang Dynasty": There are hooded stone flowers in Jiannan, either small squares or with scattered buds, and they are number one.
In the 5th year of Emperor Wenzong’s reign (AD 840), Mengding tea was introduced to Japan.
Song Dynasty
In the 7th and 9th years of Shenzong Xining’s reign (1074 AD), the Tiju Tea Horse Company successively set up “tea farms” in Mingshan and Baizhang. "Talk about" the county's tea.
In the 4th year of Yuanfeng of Shenzong (AD 1081), the emperor issued an edict: "The famous camellia from Yazhou is specially used for Yi Ma."
In the first year of Emperor Huizong's founding of the Jingguo Dynasty (1107 AD), Shenzong's original edict was reiterated: "Rename Camellia to Yibo Horse" and "define it as a permanent method."
In the 13th year of Chunxi reign of Emperor Xiaozong (AD 1186), Wu Lizhen, the founder of Mengding Tea, was named "Zen Master of Manna, Puhui and Miaoji".
The seven "immortal teas" from Shangqing Peak were further deified and classified as Zhenggong tea.
A stone fence was built to protect the place, and it was named "Imperial Tea Garden".
Ming Dynasty
Mengding tribute tea was transformed into bud tea for tribute.
The art of making Mongolian cakes began to change to fried greens, focusing on color, aroma, taste and shape.
The yellow buds, stone flowers, white buds and tongue buds produced are famous throughout the country.
Create the famous "Nanlu" tea, the quality of which exceeds the "Stone Flower" tea produced in the Tang and Song Dynasties.
Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "True tea is cold in nature, but the tea from Mengshan Mountain in Yazhou is warm and used to cure diseases."
Qing Dynasty
Mengding "Immortal tea" evolved into something that the royal family offered to the Imperial Ancestral Temple, and tea produced outside the "Imperial Tea Garden" began to be classified as main tribute, deputy tribute and accompanying tribute.
In the 32nd year of Emperor Guangxu's reign (AD 1906), 18 tea merchants including Mingshan Wang Hengsheng and Li Yugong raised 50,000 taels of silver to prepare for the establishment of "Mingshan Tea" in order to fight against the infringement and sales of printed tea. Ltd."
Republic of China
In the 26th year of the Republic of China (1937 AD), the Tea Industry Association was established in Mingshan County, with 172 members.
The People's Republic of China
In 1958, the Mingshan County Party Committee organized more than 800 people in accordance with Chairman Mao's instructions on "To develop Mengding Tea, it must meet with the masses." Go up to Mengding Mountain to clear up wasteland and grow tea.
And with Jingjuan as the farm, a tea cultivation farm was established.
In 1959, "Mengding Manna" was listed as one of China's top ten famous teas.
In 1963, the "Sichuan Province State-owned Mengshan Tea Farm" was established.
In 1979, Li Jiaguang and others from the state-owned Mengshan Tea Farm discovered four thousand-year-old tea trees at Louzi Rock in Chaishangang, 1,400 meters above sea level in the middle of Mengding Mountain.
In 1981, the "Mengding" trademark was registered with the State Administration for Industry and Commerce
In 2003, "Mengshan Tea Farm" was restructured into "Sichuan Mengding Huangcha Tea Industry Co., Ltd."
In 2004, the Mengding Mountain Declaration of World Tea Culture was published in Mengding Mountain, which clarified that Mengding Mountain is the birthplace of world tea culture and the birthplace of world tea civilization, and established that Mengding Mountain is the birthplace of world tea culture. The status of the holy mountain of tea culture.