Maybe seven famous Yunnan tea mountains

That is the problem.

Many people focus so much on the famous six mountains that produce pu'er they have forgotten that there are many other areas that produced this tea.

The Lan Cang river runs through Xishuangbanna; the tea producing region north of the river are the famous six mountains that we know, and often considered as 'traditional' pu'er producing regions.

However, south of the river has also 6 famous tea mountains, and these are mostly where the oldest and possibly the cradle of tea plants are.

They are:

1. Nan Nuo
2. Meng Hai
3. Ba Da
4. Jing Mai
5. Nan Qiao
6. Meng Song

These are the famous tea mountains of the south, but there are others, such as Ai Lao Shan, Wu Liang Shan, Da Xue Shan, etc etc etc, the list goes on.

Danny

This list has held up in subsequent Chinese links. Yesterday there was a DaDuGang presentation box on TaoBao with a biscuit for each of the six mountains plus one more making a total of seven which they called ÄÏŴɽ NanNuoShan (South Glutinous Mountain). You will occasionally see NanNuo from other factories including the Menghai factory. So is the Dadugang factory trying to one up the 6FTM factory or should we really be talking about seven famous tea mountains in Yunnan?

Thanks, Jim

I was looking around on TaoBao and of course am limited by language. What kind of prices were you seeing for the set?

Thanks, Danny. My characters for Lan Cang river are 澜沧江. Doesn't this turn into Mekong in Vietnam? I have some JingMai ancient tree cooked puerh from the LanCang factory. It is one of my favorites. It comes in 100g 饼干 (biscuit).

Jim

samarkand wrote:

Indeed it is!

Lan Cang river passes through several provinces in China on the western side, and into Burma, Loas, Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand. When it flows into South East Asia, it is called the Mekong river.

Danny

Jim

samarkand wrote:

If you're talking to me all I can do on TaoBao is look around and drool. The auction rolled off. It is the first time I saw this one. I usually check the site for the next 24 hour auctions, make notes, save pictures. Don't hold me too it but I remember 200y for the auction of 7 which is dirt cheap per cake ~$4. It's embarassing because I make a note of the auction prices but I didn't in this case. What I learned was the placement of the pinyin mountain names on the cake themselves. Other factories do the same and I wasn't putting two and two together. It is just another way of extracting meaningful information for us language impaired.

Jim

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Hey Danny,

How about the Chinese characters for the six mountains you listed? I know some but not all. I can work backwards from any gooblygook Simple or Traditional language pairs generated by your newsreader and will be happy to repost the Unicode equivalent.

Thanks, Jim

samarkand wrote:

...I delete me...

Word up wuliangshan! woo-woo!

Hey Danny,

When you get the chance check my Chinese characters against your Pinyin. I'd not sure of the Ba:

1. Nan Nuo ÄÏŴ
2. Meng Hai Ûº£
3. Ba Da °˴ó
4. Jing Mai ¾°Âõ
5. Nan Qiao ÄϽ§
6. Meng Song ÃÏËÉ

Thanks, Jim

samarkand wrote:

...I delete me...

Jim,

didn't you receive my email 2 nites ago on the chinese characcters?

When you get the chance check my Chinese characters against your Pinyin. I'd not sure of the Ba:

1. Nan Nuo ÄÏŴ
2. Meng Hai Ûº£
3. Ba Da °˴ó
4. Jing Mai ¾°Âõ
5. Nan Qiao ÄϽ§
6. Meng Song ÃÏËÉ

Thanks, Jim

samarkand wrote:

...I delete me...

And I thought you were ignoring me. I can be a pest when it comes to getting the Chinese correct. The email address in this post is incorrect. I use my old Google account to currently post when that email address was once correct. I also do it for sake on consistency because it is the email address I always use in this group and others unfortunately. I just sent an email with the new address in the body of the email from Google Groups. If there is a problem my address has morphed from 'netstuff' to 'thenetstuff' and from 'ix.netcom.com' to 'msn.com'. Hopefully the email filters can't figure this out. It has been a pleasure not getting much junk mail with the new address.

Jim

Danny wrote:

Ah no wonder

The mail should be in your mailbox now

Danny

Thanks for letting me know. MSN promptly put you in the Junk folder which I never check.

Jim

samarkand wrote:

...I delete me...