Province and core region
Yunnan → Xishuangbanna / Lincang / Pu'er CityEstablishes environment and administration, but cannot identify a specific tea.
PRIMTEA Chinese Tea Encyclopedia · Yunnan
Yunnan Tea Atlas
Read the geography before the mountain story. Yunnan tea is not a list of expensive names; this atlas separates region, county, mountain, village, micro-origin and batch.
Explore the origins24Yunnan origin entries
4four source levels
2English and Traditional Chinese
One name, four questions
From “Yunnan tea” to one traceable batch
The more prestigious an origin becomes, the more important its missing middle levels are. A complete source statement connects all four.
County, township and mountain
Menghai → Bulang / Nannuo / BadaNarrows the claim to a real production and collection network.
Village and garden
Bulang → Laobanzhang / LaomaneTests whether the name is a village, settlement, garden zone or market micro-origin.
Batch and evidence
Harvest → household / maker → volume → testingModern batch records support a product claim; a mountain story does not.
Origin navigation
Read Yunnan tea through geographic relationships
Every name returns to its parent region, county and village system. Flavor slogans never replace the map.
01 / Regional coordinates
04Yunnan's core and western tea regions
Build the prefecture and county framework before entering mountain and village names.
Prefecture-level core tea region
Xishuangbanna Tea Region
西雙版納茶區 · Xīshuāngbǎnnà cháqū
Xishuangbanna is one of Yunnan's three principal tea regions and contains several distinct origin systems, including Menghai's mountain areas and the historic tea mountains around Yiwu and Xiangming. The prefecture name is a useful first coordinate, not a complete origin.
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Lincang Tea Region
臨滄茶區 · Líncāng cháqū
Lincang is a major Yunnan tea region rather than one flavor style. Shuangjiang and Mengku, Fengqing, Linxiang, Yongde, Yun County and other areas support different large-leaf materials, Pu'er traditions and black-tea production.
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Pu'er City Tea Region
普洱市茶區 · Pǔ'ěr Shì cháqū
Pu'er City is a modern administrative tea region inside Yunnan; Pu'er tea is a regulated tea category whose eligible production geography is broader. Keeping those two meanings separate prevents a basic origin error.
Read full entryTwo prefecture-level secondary tea regions
Baoshan and Dehong Tea Regions
保山與德宏茶區 · Bǎoshān yǔ Déhóng cháqū
Baoshan and Dehong are meaningful parts of Yunnan tea geography even though international Pu'er discussion often concentrates on Xishuangbanna, Lincang and Pu'er City. They should be documented on their own terms, not treated as anonymous Yunnan material.
Read full entry02 / Menghai mountains
07West of the Lancang: Menghai, Bulang and its villages
Separate raw-material mountains, village origin and the Menghai processing system.
County-level tea system
Menghai Tea Area
勐海茶區 · Měnghǎi cháqū
Menghai is both a county of diverse tea mountains and a major Pu'er processing center. Bulang, Nannuo, Bada, Pasha and Mengsong describe different source areas, while a 'Menghai taste' may also refer to factory fermentation or blending traditions.
Read full entryTownship and mountain system
Bulang Mountain Tea Area
布朗山茶區 · Bùlǎng Shān cháqū
Bulang Mountain is a broad inhabited tea landscape in Menghai County, not one estate. It includes villages such as Laobanzhang and Laomane and is closely connected with Blang and Hani communities.
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Nannuo Mountain Tea Area
南糯山茶區 · Nánnuò Shān cháqū
Nannuo Mountain is a multi-village tea area in Menghai County associated with Hani communities and a long history of tea cultivation. The mountain name should not be treated as one uniform garden.
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Bada Mountain Tea Area
巴達山茶區 · Bādá Shān cháqū
Bada is a western Menghai mountain area known in tea literature for both cultivated gardens and wild tea-tree resources. Wild plants and tea made for sale must not be treated as the same category.
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Pasha Tea Area
帕沙茶區 · Pàshā cháqū
Pasha is a named tea area within Gelanghe Hani Township in Menghai. It is geographically more specific than 'Menghai' but can still represent several settlements and collection relationships.
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Laobanzhang Tea Origin
老班章 · Lǎobānzhāng
Laobanzhang is a village-level origin inside the wider Bulang Mountain system. Its exceptional market premium makes traceability and realistic volume more important than sensory descriptions or prestige language.
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Laomane Tea Origin
老曼峨 · Lǎomàn'é
Laomane is a Blang-community village origin within Bulang Mountain. It is often marketed through a single idea of strong bitterness, but village tea is more diverse than that shorthand.
Read full entry03 / Eastern historic mountains
07The Ancient Six and Yiwu's layered place names
Connect historical tea mountains with modern administration, villages and market micro-origins.
Historical regional grouping
Ancient Six Tea Mountains
古六大茶山 · Gǔ Liù Dà Cháshān
The Ancient Six Tea Mountains are a historical-commercial framework, commonly listed today as Yiwu, Yibang, Manzhuan, Mangzhi, Gedeng and Youle. They are not six identical estates and their boundaries and spellings vary across historical records.
Read full entryTown, village, forest and market micro-origin system
Yiwu Village and Micro-Origin Map
易武村寨與微產區 · Yìwǔ cūnzhài yǔ wēi chǎnqū
Yiwu is a large origin system containing towns, villages, natural settlements, forest areas and modern micro-origin names. Mahei, Luoshuidong, Gaoshan, Dingjiazhai, Guafengzhai and Wangong do not all sit at the same administrative or geographic level.
Read full entryHistoric mountain and settlement origin
Yibang Tea Mountain
倚邦茶山 · Yǐbāng Cháshān
Yibang is one of the commonly recognized Ancient Six Tea Mountains in present-day Mengla County. Historical fame and local tea-plant diversity are relevant context, but neither proves a modern retail batch.
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Manzhuan Tea Mountain
蠻磚茶山 · Mánzhuān Cháshān
Manzhuan is one of the Ancient Six Tea Mountains and is generally mapped to present-day Xiangming in Mengla County. It is a historical region with modern villages and gardens, not a single preserved estate.
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Mangzhi Tea Mountain
莽枝茶山 · Mǎngzhī Cháshān
Mangzhi is a historical tea-mountain name within the Ancient Six framework, generally associated with present-day Xiangming. Modern revival of the name should be tied to current geography and producers.
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Gedeng Tea Mountain
革登茶山 · Gédēng Cháshān
Gedeng is one of the historical Ancient Six Tea Mountains, generally located in the Xiangming area of Mengla. Its modern identity depends on careful linkage between historical naming and current gardens.
Read full entryHistoric tea mountain and modern township
Youle and Jinuo Tea Mountain
攸樂（基諾山） · Yōulè (Jīnuò Shān)
Youle is the historical tea-mountain name commonly linked with present-day Jinuo Mountain in Jinghong. It is the Ancient Six member outside present-day Mengla County and is inseparable from Jino-community history.
Read full entry04 / Lincang path
04Mengku, Bingdao, Xigui and Fengqing
One broad region contains raw Pu'er material, premium village systems and Dianhong craft.
Township and mountain-valley tea system
Mengku Tea Area
勐庫茶區 · Měngkù cháqū
Mengku is a broad tea area in Shuangjiang, not a synonym for Bingdao. Local discourse commonly divides its mountains into eastern and western sides, each containing many villages and gardens.
Read full entryMarket and local village-group framework
Bingdao Five Villages
冰島五寨 · Bīngdǎo Wǔ Zhài
Bingdao Five Villages is a commonly used framework for Bingdao Laozhai, Dijie, Nanpo, Bawai and Nuowu within the wider Mengku area. 'Bingdao' without the village level is therefore incomplete and may be used at very different geographic scales.
Read full entryVillage and mountain-slope origin
Xigui Tea Origin
昔歸 · Xīguī
Xigui is a named village origin in Bangdong Township, Linxiang District. It is often discussed because its tea gardens sit in a warm Lancang River valley setting that complicates the simple belief that all valued tea must come from the highest elevations.
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Fengqing Tea Area
鳳慶茶區 · Fèngqìng cháqū
Fengqing is one of the central origins of Dianhong, Yunnan black tea. Its identity comes from large-leaf material, black-tea craft and a county-wide production history, not from one mountain-village premium system.
Read full entry05 / Pu'er City path
03Kunlu, Jinggu and the Jingmai cultural landscape
Separate Pu'er City, the regulated tea category and distinct county-level tea landscapes.
Mountain and village-area origin
Kunlu Mountain Tea Area
困鹿山 · Kùnlù Shān
Kunlu Mountain is a named tea area in Ning'er County within the wider Pu'er City region. Its royal or tribute-tea stories are part of market history, but modern batches still require present-day provenance.
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Jinggu Tea Area
景谷茶區 · Jǐnggǔ cháqū
Jinggu is a county-level origin in Pu'er City with diverse tea materials and processing. Tea grown there may enter Pu'er production or other styles, so the county name does not determine the finished category.
Read full entryJingmai Mountain cultural landscape, Pu'er, Yunnan
Jingmai Mountain Tea
景邁山茶 · jǐng mài shān chá
Jingmai Mountain tea refers to material associated with villages and tea-forest landscapes of Jingmai. It is an origin claim that requires village, garden and batch traceability.
Read full entryResearch method
Use clues without importing conclusions
Chinese tea sites can reveal place names, vocabulary and search demand. Public knowledge still requires source ranking, cross-checking and original synthesis.
Topic discovery
Industry sites, local articles and search results build the name list, synonyms and reader questions. Their body copy is not reproduced.
Fact verification
Government plans, protection registers, heritage records, World Heritage documents and mappable places receive priority.
Publication threshold
Price, tree age, scarcity, health effects and fixed flavor claims remain unverified unless independent evidence supports them.
An atlas does not authenticate a product
The encyclopedia locates a place within the knowledge system. A product page must still provide its own batch origin, year, making, testing and chain-of-custody records.