The most peculiar thing about Meng Song is the symbiosis of bitter tea and sweet tea

Xishuangbanna has two ancient tea gardens of Mengsong Tea Mountain, one is Mengsong Township in Menghai County, distributed with ancient tea mountains such as Naka and Baotang, and the other is in Damenglong Township of Jinghong, where Jinghong's Mengsong is a village.

Jinghong Mengsong Village is located in the southernmost part of Jinghong City, which is the southernmost and lowest latitude ancient tea area in Yunnan. It is located at latitude 2129 N, 10030 east, and is 1581 meters above sea level. It is 35 km away from the township government.

The ancient tea of Jinghong Mengsong Tea District is mainly distributed in 6 villager groups under the jurisdiction of the Mengsong Village Committee of Damenglong Township and Laozhai Village under the jurisdiction of the Man umbrella Village Committee of Damenglong Township. Since the village of Mengsong is a few kilometers south of Myanmar, the ancient tea trees extend to Myanmar, and there are also ancient tea gardens in Myanmar. The 6 villages of Mengsong are Aini people, and the old village is a Brown ethnic group.

The most peculiar thing about Meng Song is the symbiosis of bitter tea and sweet tea.

Meng song bitter tea is very famous, if you have not personally experienced the people, you must not imagine the bitterness of bitter tea, the average person will say before drinking: tea is bitter, how bitter it will be. After drinking, you will know what is Meng song bitter tea. The bitterness of Mengsong bitter tea has three characteristics: First, the intensity of bitterness is higher, no less than that of the old Ban Zhang. Second, there is no sweetness in bitterness, many ancient teas such as the old Ban Zhang, although bitter but bitter with sweetness, drinking has charm and feeling. But Meng song bitter tea is bitter, bitter without sweetness, like some bitter Chinese herbs. The third is bitterness. After drinking bitter tea, bitterness is at the base of the tongue and throat, and if you do not eat anything to impact it, the bitterness will last for more than an hour after drinking. Because bitter tea is too bitter and will be uncomfortable after drinking, in the past to separate, otherwise mixed into sweet tea sweet tea will not be able to sell, now the world has changed, bitter tea in recent years the price has exceeded sweet tea, why? After buying and blending other teas, it was filled with old class chapters. Because there are few people who have really drunk the pure old class chapter, many people have only heard that the old class chapter is very bitter, which gives the counterfeiter an opportunity to use the Meng song bitter tea to mix and fill the old class chapter.

Another peculiarity of Mengsong bitter tea is that the appearance of tea trees and dried tea is indistinguishable from sweet tea, and it cannot be distinguished without chewing on local tea farmers in their mouths.

Bitter tea is mainly distributed in the mengsong village committee under the jurisdiction of the pioneer villager group, tea garden distributed in the side mountain forest, tea garden bitter tea sweet tea symbiosis, the appearance is no difference, tea farmers rely on two ways to distinguish when picking tea, one is chewing, picking a little chewing a little to know that this tree is sweet tea or bitter tea. Another way is to remember, because each ancient tea tree is so little, often after harvesting, you can remember which plant is bitter and which is sweet. Tea buyers can't tell the shape of the tea, and can only distinguish it by chewing or brewing.

The Mengsong tea area is a large-leaf species. The soil is mainly yellow sand.

Mengsong tea features: the cord is tightly knotted black and bright, the soup color is golden and bright, the yellow and green bottom of the leaf is uniform, the mountain wild atmosphere is strong, the bottom of the cup is fragrant, and the soup is full. Sweet tea is more bitter, bitter and astringent, bitter in the root of the tongue, bitter with sweetness, astringent short, sweet back is better, its taste is similar to other old tree tea in Menghai tea area. Bitter tea is obviously bitter and bitter; bitterness is at the root of the tongue, long-lasting, and there is no sweetness in bitterness.