About Mengding Ganlu tea

Mengding Ganlu grows in Mengding Mountain, Ya'an City, Sichuan Province. Ya'an is known as "Rain City", good ecology, and Mengding Mountain is the earliest place where there are written records of China's artificial cultivation of tea, Mengding Mountain on Qingfeng is said to be the ancestor of the Han Dynasty Manna Wu Li Zhen hand-planted seven immortal tea site. During the Tang and Song dynasties, Mengding tea was listed as a tribute, as a tribute to heaven and earth, ancestors of the exclusive use, has been inherited until the Qing dynasty.

Western Han Dynasty, Sichuan Mengding Mountains on the planting of tea trees, the use of tea tree health, health benefits to help ordinary people. Ming Dynasty "Yang Shen Records": "Western Han Rizhen, common surname Wu, repairing the line of living people, planting tea Mengding ......" This has also become the earliest legend of China's artificial cultivation of tea. But now it is generally believed that there is no such person in history is doubtful. According to legend, the seven tea trees planted for Wu Lijin pro, known as "immortal tea"; and Wu Lijin then planted tea to play the water of the ancient well of Longquan, but also be deified as "the well within the bucket of water, the rain does not fill, drought does not dry up, the mouth cover of the stone, take this well water to cook tea is a strange fragrance".