Emei mountain tea is produced from the world natural and cultural heritage Emei Mountain - Leshan Giant Buddha location - Leshan City, unique natural environment, since ancient times is a natural resort for tea growth.
In the more than 3,000 years of civilization development history of Leshan, Emei Mountain Tea and Leshan Confucian, Shi and Taoist culture have formed a colorful and profound cultural concept. In ancient times, the tea drinking habits as the order of temple etiquette have become indispensable ritual activities in the middle of Mount Emei and the two gates of Buddha, and the connotation of tea culture such as Taoist tea and Buddha tea has gradually formed, and the mountains, seas of clouds, Buddha's light, and Lin Tao have all become immortal mountain tea rhymes. The quality characteristics of Emei Camellia's "flat and straight, tender green and oily, fragrant and long, fresh and sweet" have attracted literati and inkers from all dynasties. In the Tang Dynasty, "Emei Mountain Tea" was listed as a tribute to the imperial court every year, and the Tang Dynasty scholar Li Shan wrote in the "Selected Notes on Zhaoming Texts": "Eshan has many herbs, tea is especially good, different from the world, and now after the Black Water Temple, the rock is planted with tea, the taste is good and the second year is white and green, and there is a constant appearance, I don't know what the earth is like, why do you change each other." "Jia Dao in the Tang Dynasty, Su Dongpo in the Song Dynasty, Lu You in the Southern Song Dynasty, and Zhao Xi in the Qing Dynasty have all written down their feelings about Emei Camellia. The most famous is Lu You's "Snow Buds Near Emei, Not Reducing the Red Sac Gu Zhuchun." As well as the north and south towards the mountain monks wrote "The wind pushes the pine forest roars, and the tea cooks the snow for thousands of years." ”
In December 2009, the former General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine approved the implementation of geographical indication product protection for "Emei Mountain Tea". The scope of protection includes the administrative areas under the jurisdiction of 11 counties (cities, districts) of Leshan City. Nowadays, the regional brand of "Emei Mountain Tea" has become a local regional brand of refined Sichuan tea that the provincial government focuses on creating. The city's tea garden area is 1.39 million mu; the dry tea output is 145,000 tons, the dry tea output value is 8.5 billion yuan, the comprehensive output value is 26 billion yuan, and the comprehensive strength of the tea industry ranks in the forefront of Sichuan. The city has formed an industrial development pattern of "one core, two belts and two zones", created the "National Alpine Green Tea Industry Core Area" of Emei Mountain, formed the 500,000 mu standardized tea industrial belt of Emei-Jiajiang, the 800,000 mu ecological tea industrial belt of Qianwei-Muchuan-Mabian, built the "Refined Sichuan Tea Export Leading Demonstration Zone" and Qianjiang "National Jasmine Tea Industry Advantage Zone"; has more than 2,000 tea processing enterprises, 2 leading enterprises of national agricultural industrialization, and 9 provincial leading enterprises; The alpine green tea processing cluster represented by Emei Snow Bud, Emei Mountain Organic Tea, Forest Snow, and Yizhichun "Five Golden Flowers"; the jasmine tea processing cluster represented by Qingxi Tea Industry, Fried Flower Nectar, Liang Tauzi, and Xiaoxi Flower Tea "Four Little Dragons"; the export green tea processing cluster represented by baiyue tea industry, Hongchun tea industry, and Huayi tea industry"; a number of influential "Emei mountain tea" brands such as "Bamboo Leaf Green", "On the Road" and "Emei Snow Bud" are well-known at home and abroad. In 2020, Emei Camellia was selected into the first batch of China-EU Geographical Indications Agreement Protection List, and with the footsteps of the "Belt and Road", it has become a well-known "national drink" to the world.