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POST TIME: 5 May, 2017 00:00 00 AM
Making tea bricks in the 'City of Tea'
BY WANG JING

Making tea bricks in the 'City of Tea'

the beautiful views in a farmer house in Nakeli Village. (Xinhua) P hoto by Yang Zongyou A worker presses tea into tea cakes in a tea factory in Pu'eCr ity. Photo by Zhou Hai

South Yunnan’s Pu’er City is named after the famous Pu’er tea.

With a tea-growing history for hundreds of years, the city is one of the main Pu’er tea production areas in China. It has developed a unique and glorious tea culture.

Pu’er tea soup looks thick and orange in color. It has a unique and lasting flavor, with health care and weight loss functions.

In Pu’er, you can not only have chances to taste different kinds of Pu’er tea, but also learn various tea-making skills and the art of tea drinking developed by different ethnic groups such as Bulang and Dai.

 

Nine steps to make unfermented Pu’er tea bricks:

Picking(tea leaves)—Withering—Baking—Hand-rolling—Sunshine withering—Weighing—Pressing—Sun drying—Packaging

 

Ten steps to make fermented Pu’er tea bricks:

Picking (tealeaves)—Withering—Baking—Hand-rolling—Sunshine withering—Pile fermentation—Sun drying—Selecting—Pressing—Packaging