Brown Hill

Bulang mountain is located in Menghai County, Xishuangbanna, near the border of China and Myanmar. It is a famous Pu'er tea producing area and one of the areas with the most ancient tea gardens. Bulang mountain covers an area of more than 1000 square kilometers.

Bulang mountain includes banzhang, laoman'e, manxinlong and other villages, among which laoman'e, the oldest, has a history of 1400 years. Bulang people are descendants of Baipu. They live in Bulang mountain for generations. They are the first people in the world to cultivate, produce and drink tea.

Brown Hill

Bulang mountain is located in Menghai County, Xishuangbanna, near the border of China and Myanmar. It is a famous Pu'er tea producing area and one of the areas with the most ancient tea gardens. Bulang mountain covers an area of more than 1000 square kilometers. Bulang mountain includes banzhang, laoman'e, manxinlong and other villages, among which laoman'e, the oldest, has a history of 1400 years. Bulang people are descendants of Baipu. They live in Bulang mountain for generations. They are the first people in the world to cultivate, produce and drink tea.

geographical position

Bulang Nationality Township of Bulang mountain is located in the southeast of Menghai County, 99 ° 56 ′ - 100 ° 41 ′, 21 ° 28 ′ - 22 ° 28 ′, bordering Damenglong town of Jinghong City in the East, Myanmar in the South and West, with a border line of 70.1 km, Daluo town in the northwest, Menghun town in the north and northeast. The total area of the township is 1016.34 square kilometers. The rural area is about 38 km from east to west and 28 km from south to north, with a population density of 17 people per square kilometer. Mengang township government resident, 1220 meters above sea level, 91 kilometers away from the county.

topographic features

The township is located in mountainous areas, with undulating mountains and crisscross valleys, with an average altitude of 1216 meters. The highest point is Sanduo mountain in the north, with an altitude of 2082 meters and a square garden of 13 square kilometers. The isolated peak is towering. You can have a bird's-eye view of the whole territory of Bulang mountain. It is the highest peak in the southern mountain system. The southern mountain system starts from Sanduo mountain, passes south through guangbaka, Jiuxiang and jiusang, and ends at Lookout Mountain at the junction of China and Myanmar It is divided into two parts: the East and the West. The lowest point is at the intersection of Nanju River and Nanlan River in the southwest, with an altitude of 535 meters. It is high in Northeast and low in southwest. The main mountain ridges are Sanduo mountain, nyatao mountain, Bangga mountain, liaowangtai mountain, guangsanbian mountain, qigangleishan mountain, tebangnan mountain, leiliandifa mountain, nomicha mountain, nonge mountain, galaapotuo mountain, etc.

climate

Bulang mountain has a subtropical monsoon climate with abundant sunshine and rainfall, with an average annual rainfall of 1374mm and an average annual temperature of 18 ℃ - 21 ℃. There is basically no frost or a short frost period in the whole year. There are two dry and wet seasons in a year. The maximum evaporation occurs from March to April, and the minimum evaporation occurs from November to December. The annual evaporation is greater than the rainfall. It is foggy in winter and spring, and rainy in summer, with only 1782-2323 hours of sunshine. Summer and autumn are controlled by the warm air flow from the bay of Bengal, winter and spring are controlled by the dry and warm westerly air flow from the Indian peninsula, and there are barriers of Ailao Mountain and Wuliang Mountain in the north, forming the climate characteristics of "no severe cold in winter, no severe heat in summer, four seasons like spring". Bulang mountain is located in the middle mountain area with an absolute height of more than 1000-2200m and a relative height difference of 500-1000m, forming an obvious three-dimensional climate. It is suitable for the growth of crops and economic trees. The temperature in mannan, Guohe, zhula, Mamai and Jieliang is relatively high, which is suitable for planting tropical crops. These advantaged natural conditions have made the tea of Bulang mountain a legend in Pu'er tea. The most famous tea of Bulang mountain is "banzhang king". Its cold taste is just like that of the men of Bulang Nationality. Therefore, the domineering spirit of banzhang tea has always been the highest pursuit of Pu'er tea.

Bulang Nationality

Bulang mountain is the only Bulang Nationality Township in China. Bulang Nationality, more than 2000 years ago, Pu people first settled here, known as "Puman mountain". In ancient times, mansang and MANXIN belonged to Cheli xuanweisi, and the rest belonged to Menghun Tusi. Because of its nationality, it is called Bulang mountain. Menghun district was established in 1950, and Bulang mountain Bulang autonomous region was established in 1953, which belongs to Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Region (prefecture). Bulang mountain area was set up in 1958, Wuyi commune was set up in 1969, Bulang commune was set up in 1973, district was set up in 1984, and Bulang Nationality Township in Bulang mountain was set up in 1987. Located in the southern mountainous area of the county, bordering Myanmar in the South and West, 91 kilometers away from the county government. It covers an area of 1016 square kilometers and has a population of 16000. There are roads to the county government. It has jurisdiction over nine administrative villages, including mengang, nanwen, manguo, Jieliang, banzhang, mannan, mansang and Zhangjia. The main crops are upland rice, corn, sugarcane, tea, southern medicine and fruit. The grassland is vast and suitable for the development of animal husbandry. The forest is thick and produces wood. The Bulang people believe in Buddhism. Bulang mountain is the only Bulang Nationality Township in China. Bulang Nationality, known as "Pu man" and "Pu people" in the past dynasties. After liberation, the state changed "Puman" to Bulang Nationality. In 2009, the township governs 7 village committees, 52 natural villages and 63 villager groups; the total number of households in the township is 4126, with a total population of 19014, including 18619 family members. The total rural economic income of the township is 44.26 million yuan, and the per capita net income of farmers is 1594 yuan.

social customs and habits

The Blang people generally believe in Hinayana Buddhism. Buddhist temple is the center of all kinds of cultural activities of Bulang Nationality, and it is also a place for people to receive traditional education and hold ceremonies. From seven or eight to eleven or twelve years old, men of the Bulang Nationality must become monks in Buddhist temples. Under the guidance of the Buddha, he studied Dai language and simple Buddhist scriptures, and systematically studied the dogma. This kind of education is only limited to men, and a small number of intelligent Bulang women learn the basic doctrines of Buddhism and Dai language through listening to the Buddha chanting, lecturing and doing Buddhist things in religious activities.

Bulang Nationality is good at singing and dancing, and has rich folk song and dance culture. Traditional music can be divided into four categories: Suo, Sheng, Zai and drag; folk dance can be divided into song dance, drum dance and martial arts dance.

The main festivals of Bulang Nationality include water splashing Festival, door opening Festival, door closing Festival and so on. Every new year's festival, they will gather in fixed places to celebrate their festivals with singing and dancing.

Brown mountain tea mountain

Bulang people, WA people and De'ang people, who live here all the time, set up villages in Cangmang mountains and live together.

Bulang mountain is a famous Pu'er tea producing area and a village in the mountain. Banzhang, Lao man'e and man'xinlong are the big ones. Some domestic scholars have researched that the history of tea planting in brown mountain can be traced back to more than 4000 years ago. The first piece of tea consumed by human beings was picked by the ancestors of local residents. According to experts' research, Bulangshan people are descendants of ancient Baipu people, including today's Bulangshan, WA, De'ang and other nationalities. In history, the Baipu people once moved to the South and established a great civilization represented by Angkor Wat in the Indochina Peninsula. Contrary to the ancestors who went abroad, the Bulang, De'ang and other ethnic groups who stayed in China were still in the dense forest until the period of the Republic of China. They worked at sunrise and rested at sunset in the Bulang mountain, which covers an area of more than 1000 square kilometers. They never left Yunnan and were far away from the call of the outside world. Therefore, it can be said that the residents of brown mountain are the original indigenous people in Yunnan and the real roots of Yunnan people. Perhaps it is precisely because of the thousand years of isolation and seclusion that the people of brown mountain can get in touch with nature. Here, they eat all kinds of herbs and taste all kinds of flavors. They put innumerable gifts of nature into their cups and cups. The treasures of the mountain turn into nutrition for their strong bodies. Among them, tea is the earliest domesticated, cultivated and enjoyed by the people of brown mountain.

There are more than 200 trees per mu, and less than 20-30 trees per mu. The management is extensive. Except for one or two times of grass planting every year, tea farmers do not carry out the management of pruning tea branches, cultivating and fertilizing, and let the tea trees grow by themselves. Therefore, tea plant is high with few branches and low yield. After liberation, the township government organized to renovate the old tea garden, at the same time, organized to use barren mountains to open up new tea garden, and actively promoted new tea planting technology. In 1982, the tea garden contracted to the postpartum, and implemented family production and management. Tea gradually became the main source of farmers' economy in brown mountain, and the development speed of new tea garden accelerated. From 1988 to 1990, Menghai tea factory opened up 200 mu of tea garden in banzhang village of Bulang mountain, and began to use asexual seedling propagation (cutting) technology. After 1992, Party Secretary Yang Wenming listed the development of tea as an important measure to get rid of poverty. In the following years, ecological tea planting has become an important industry of Bulang people in Bulang mountain. After 2004, the price of Bulangshan tea rose and became the main industry for farmers to get rid of poverty. In 2008, the total area of tea in the township was 28005 mu, the output was 4649 hundred kilograms, and the income of tea industry reached more than 10 million yuan.

Brown mountain tea is green and healthy ecological tea without chemical fertilizer and pesticide. So it is loved by friends all over the country. Many Pu 'er tea merchants have spotted the quality and natural conditions of Brown mountain, and have drawn the essence of them, providing tea lovers with a taste of Pu' er tea.

Address: Menghai County, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province

Longitude: 100.40596561377

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