Tea trees are native to Yunnan. After the foundation of the People’s Republic of China, some “Kings of tea trees” more than 30 meters high were discovered in Menghai and Eryuan counties. Yunnan is also one of the old est tea planting areas in China. According to “Annals of Pu’er County”,  the planting and production of tea in Yunnan can date back to as early as the East Han Dynasty, which is 1,700 years from now. Tea in Yunnan varies from Pu’er Tea, Black Tea, Green Tea to Tightly Pressed Tea Lumps. Among them Pu’er Tea is the most famous. It is renowned for its excellent quality arround the world. Cao Xueqin wrote a poem called “Pu’er Tea” and in his famous novel “A Dream of Red Mansions”, be mentioned Pu’er Tea, which was refered to as Daughter’s Tea. Tolstoy also had descripitons on Pu’er Tea in his world famous novel “War and Peace”.
Pu’er Tea is produced mainly in the lower reaches of the Lancang River, and Xishuangbanna prefecture, which all belonged to pu’er county after the years of the reign of Emperor Yongzheng. Pu’er county was location of the local govemment office at that time.
Pu’er Tea can be classified into Maojian (tea of buds”, Tea of Shoots, and Daughter’s Tea. Generally speaking, Pu’er Tea belongs to the green tea family. Now there are loose tea and tightly pressed tea which are all made from carefully selected tea leaves, which under go proccessing procedures such as killing the enzymes, roll breading, dtubg abd oab-firing. The loose tea is stong in leaves, heavey and dark brown, while tightly pressed tea is made from losse tea after fermenting and procssing procedures.It includes brick tea, cube t4ea and pancake tea.
As tea specifically processed, many substances that are good for our health, such as phenol and caffeine are fully ocygenated. It is unnique, fragrant with pure and mild affertaste, and is effective in its medical function. Now days, Pu’er Tea sells well both at home and abroad.