No, Shunning (now Fengqing) was called Qingdian in ancient times and was a place where Pumans lived. According to Liu Xuexin's folk investigation and argumentation, the Puman people were the first ancestors to discover and utilize tea. In this way, Shuning has at least a thousand years of tea growing history, during which many famous teas were produced. These teas are not well-known, but they are fine products created by the production and labor of generations of tea farmers. Looking back, they have become the high ground for the development of Shunning tea.
Yuhuangge tea is the earliest famous tea in Shunning. It is now impossible to survey the old appearance of Yuhuangge. If you do not study tea, you cannot imagine that the famous Yuhuangge tea was produced on this humble hilltop in the late Ming Dynasty. During the Ming Dynasty, the Yuhuang Pavilion was a traditional wooden structure with a large roof and a compact structure with overlapping pavilions and overlapping eaves. Tea is grown around Yuhuang Pavilion, especially in Fengshan, just west of it, which is the famous Fengshan tea. It is recorded in Zhang Hong's "Xin Yunnan Yunnan" of the Qing Dynasty: "The tea is produced in the Yuhuang Pavilion of Shunning Prefecture. It has a flag and a gun, and the color is crystal clear. It is not different from Longjing in Hangzhou, but the fragrance is too strong." Wang Chang's "Diannan" of the Qing Dynasty According to the "Trade Catalog", "Shunning tea is sweet and fragrant. Yunnan tea is the best." The most famous Yuhuangge tea is a spring tea called "Fengshan Bird's Tongue". Fengshan Bird's Tongue Tea is named because its shape is small and resembles a bird's tongue. Its aroma is unique and rich, and it is a high-quality bud tea roasted from young buds. Together with "Fengshan Chunrui" and "Mingqian Chunjian" at that time, they were known as the three major teas in Shunning. Fengshan Quetan Tea is hard to come by, and while ordinary people are daunted by it, tea lovers are still chasing after it. Today, hundreds of years later, people still remember Fengshan Bird's Tongue.
Taipingsi tea is Shuning’s famous tea in the Ming Dynasty, and is as famous as Yuhuangge tea. "Dian Hai Yu Heng Zhi" records: "Shunning Taiping tea is as fine and moist as Biluochun. It can be brewed for three times and is especially delicious." The "Dian Xing Ri Lu" of the Qing Dynasty also traces back to Fengqing tea. According to "Southern Yunnan News", as early as the Ming Dynasty, Fengqing was able to make Taiping tea by hand, and its color, aroma and taste were comparable to Longjing tea. On the sixth day of August in the twelfth year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty (1639), the great traveler Xu Xiake traveled from Youdian (today's Changning) to Shunning and stayed at Longquan Temple in Fengqing for two days. During this period, the abbot of Longquan Temple brewed Taiping Temple tea with Longquan water to entertain Xu Xiake. "Shunning Prefecture Chronicles" "Shunning Miscellaneous Works" records: "Chu Monk Hongjian came here... to build a Zen temple, named Taiping Temple... In the rock valley, there is tea occasionally produced, named Taiping tea. It has a thin and slightly fragrant taste, and is more common. The tea is slightly finer and clearer in color. Neighboring counties buy more of it, and those who look for it can only produce dozens of kilograms per year, which is rare. "The original temple was destroyed long ago, and then rebuilt by kind-hearted people. Of course, the scale is not as good as the old temple. The Taiping Temple tea that Xu Xiake drank came from the Taiping Temple in the village of Fengshan. There are still ancient tea trees planted by the ancestors around the temple.