During the epidemic, I drove into the sea and drilled into the Aiyi tribe and found what kind of mask I was wearing? It's almost isolated here!

Number of days: 1 day
Time: March
Average cost: 200 yuan
With whom: and parents
Updated: 2020.03.28

Where should a real trip to Xishuangbanna go?

It is more than 2,800 square kilometers of tropical rainforest! It is a thousand-year-old tea mountain shrouded in clouds and mist and a profound tea-making culture!

Of course, there are also the colorful ethnic minority customs and the devout Southern Buddhist culture.

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Yunnan Pu'er tea has a long history, and was famous all over the world as early as the Qing Dynasty, and was selected as tribute tea. Xishuangbanna is the origin of Pu'er tea, is the starting area of the Yunnan Tea Horse Ancient Road, its tea horse ancient road has a long history, contains colorful landscapes and rich humanistic connotations, the clanging horseshoe prints on the bluestone slabs, the ancient tea trees in the dense forest, and the Qing Dynasty edict stele hidden in the grass nest ......

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During the Spring Festival this year, I traveled with my mother to Xishuangbanna and was forced to stay due to the outbreak of the epidemic. In late March, the Banna epidemic has been identified as a low-risk area in Yunnan Province, taking advantage of this good spring and when there are still doubts about the travel of tourists from all over the country, in line with the principle of not gathering and not gathering, entering the rainforest, passing through the ecological tea garden, breathing fresh air, and experiencing the beautiful gifts of nature to human beings - taking my mother from Jinghong, driving the thousand-year-old tea horse ancient road to Menghai, and then along the famous National Highway 214 (Yunnan-Tibet Line - Xijing Line starting section), towards Mangang Village, Menghun Town, Menghai, Visit the Lutang Camellia Mountain, which is adjacent to Mount Brown.

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leaving town and following National Highway 214 for a few kilometers, the road splits off on a winding village road. The village roads here are all cement pavements, which is one of the results of the local government's poverty alleviation battle.

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Just a few minutes after going up the mountain, a world of "steel armor" that I had never seen before came to the car window! When I stopped and asked the villagers passing by, I found out that this was a solar cell matrix! It is a solar power generation in Yunnan Province...... This is the boundary of Manguo Village in Menghun Town, about 1,300 meters above sea level. Further understanding, I learned that this is an energy investment project in Xishuangbanna, with an investment of up to 900 million yuan. This solar cell matrix is located in a large area of tea garden "empty", called "photovoltaic tea garden", which is said to be the first photovoltaic agricultural power generation project in the country.

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It is understood that photovoltaic agriculture is a new comprehensive land utilization method, which is the product of the close combination of traditional agriculture and clean energy, and the project does not change the land attributes, which is not only conducive to the protection of the ecological environment, alleviates the contradiction between land use, but also generates clean electricity, expands the proportion of renewable energy supply, and realizes two-way benefits - this is nothing more than a highlight of Banna rural tour!

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Our destination, Mangang Village, borders Manguo Village, located in a small depression of the Hengduan Mountain at an altitude of about 1,600 meters, is a typical Hani Ai'er cottage, composed of three Ai'er cottage tribes who do not understand each other, as a branch of the Hani ethnic group, most of the Ai'e people in Xishuangbanna live in the tropical rainforest of Menghai, calling themselves Akha people.

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Mangang Village is adjacent to Brown Mountain and Hekai, the famous Pu'er tea-producing areas of Xishuangbanna, and the local villagers rely on the production materials mainly Lutang mountain tea, sugarcane and corn. Since it is a poor administrative village in Xishuangbanna Prefecture, if there is no government's recently built cement township road to connect National Highway 214 and then lead to the outside world, the production and life of the villagers is a paradise in tone, so it is a very original village, tourists rarely set foot, and at the moment when the peak of the domestic epidemic has passed, as a rural tour, it is a proper option.

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A group of us uninvited guests wearing masks walked into this village, and the atmosphere was quite awkward, because none of the men, women, old and young in the village were wearing masks. People looked at us strangely, so we, who were accustomed to wearing masks when going out, finally took off our masks here for the first time and faced the villagers unguardedly ......

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The houses of each villager basically have two to three floors, and the bottom floor is made of wooden supports, stacked with firewood and sundries, as well as pots and stoves for fried tea; The middle floor is home life, including bedrooms, kitchens, bathrooms, tea rooms, balconies, etc.; The top floor is the sun room, which is specially used for drying tea and finishing the green. Every small courtyard is planted with tree tomatoes, which is the main ingredient of the special condiment of the lover - tomato Nanmi. Most of the elderly in the village do not understand Chinese, communication is difficult, young people are more sloppy in Mandarin, and they can also play various online social apps.

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slipped around the village and found quite a few motorcycles. After taking a closer look, the motorcycles parked on the side of the road in the village are all on the car, and anyone who is in an emergency, no need to say hello, they can ride away casually, and put them back in their original place after use.

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tea mountain of Mangang Village is hidden in the mountains at the end of the southern section of Hengduan Mountain, which the local villagers call Lutang Mountain, with an altitude of about 1,700 meters.It takes nearly 2 hours to hike the mountain, and the requirements for vehicles are very demanding - in addition to fuel motorcycles, only off-road or 4x4 SUVs have the ability to reach the top of the mountain.

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The Pu'er tea trees in Lutang Mountain are neither the large-scale planted terrace shrubs of Manguo Village at the foot of the mountain, nor the tall ancient trees, but the old trees that have been artificially planted and dwarfed - the villagers said that most of the tea trees in this tea mountain are fifty or sixty years old, and a few are eighty, ninety or even a hundred years, and experienced tea merchants can roughly judge their age from the shape of the roots of each tree, so their tea, when tea merchants come to collect tea every year, the price is more than twice as expensive as the terrace tea at the foot of the mountain.

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The villagers said that the tea in this tea mountain is pesticide-free, and the insecticide relies on camphor trees planted or planted. In order to prove that what he said was true, the villagers picked the tea leaves and chewed them directly. I tasted it, and it was slightly bitter in the fragrance, and it was sweet after swallowing, which tasted basically the same as the young leaves picked on the ancient trees of Nannuo Mountain in the past.

It is understood that although Lutang Mountain is close to Pu'er famous tea Brown Mountain, it is covered by the light of the six ancient tea mountains and the new eight tea mountains in Xishuangbanna, and is still unknown, although its quality is comparable to Brown Mountain, but the price of Mao tea is only two or three hundred yuan a kilogram, becoming the best stand-in for "Brown Mountain Famous Tea" in the hearts of tea merchants.

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local villagers who worked here said that this year it was slightly dry, there was little rain, and it was late March, and there were not many buds, so this year's tea production will definitely decline. The price is estimated to be slightly longer than last year.

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There is a jargon saying when drinking Pu'er: "Beginner looks at the factory, intermediate looks at the mountain, and advanced looks at the tea". Drinking Pu-erh tea, pay attention to "mountain top" - when drinking tea, you should ask about the "origin" of the tea cake and which "mountain" it comes from...... So we spent half a day at the home of a generation of tea farmers in Mangang Village, drinking his family's spring tea this year, last year's black tea and white Pu'er tea, while listening to the tea farmer talk about the "tea classics" of Pu'er tea, from the six major tea mountains of Youle, Mansa, Manzhuan, Mangzhi, Yibang, and Gedenggu to the new eight tea mountains such as Brown, Mannuo, Menghai Mengsong, Nannuo, Pasha, Hekai, Jinghong Mengsong, and Bada; Then there are Pu, Shu Pu, and Yunnan red and even white Pu'er between the two; Then old tree tea, shrub tea, small tree tea, and terrace tea; Then the shape is hair, cake, garden, lump, and scatter; spring tea, summer tea and autumn tea in the production season; Then one leaf and one bud, two leaves and one bud, three leaves and one bud; Then the price is 10 yuan to 100,000 yuan per cake...... Then, the wood has it, because the Pu'er tea culture is really broad and profound - for beginners, listening to tea farmers is like rain, fog and wind!

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I have to admit that Pu'er tea is very deep. As an old tea guest who drinks Sichuan gaiwan tea all year round, I don't know Pu'er but I am well versed in Sichuan green tea. For example, a certain green tea in Sichuan, which is so famous day by day, has many raw materials not at the foot of that famous mountain, but in the high mountains of the Yi ethnic region of Sichuan. The price of green tea produced in this mountain is simply heaven and earth compared to it. However, I personally feel that the unknown green tea of the Yi mountains is my favorite green tea. Therefore, the price of tea is not high; Taste, not in seeking consensus. As long as you like it, it's good tea.

If my feeling about green tea can be applied to Pu'er, that person thinks that Lutang Mountain in Mangang is a good Pu'er with low price and good quality.