The world's first! Why is it Jingmai Mountain
2023-10-30
China's "Pu'er Scenery and Ancient Tea Forest Cultural Landscape" World Heritage application project was recently reviewed at the 45th World Heritage Conference and listed in the The World Heritage List, which is the world's first tea themed world cultural heritage. Jingmai Mountain is a mountain full of ecological wisdom, where forest and tea coexist and people and land coexist, creating a harmonious world of nature and culture. How many thought-provoking stories are there in the legend composed by tea, mountains, and people together? The tea fragrance floats for thousands of years, and Jingmai Mountain is located in Huimin Town, Lancang Lahu Autonomous County, Pu'er City, Yunnan Province. Since the 10th century AD, the ancestors of the Bulang ethnic group have discovered wild tea trees, gradually forming a unique understanding of the local forest ecosystem. Later, together with Dai and other ethnic groups, they explored techniques for planting tea under the forest. After thousands of years of protection and development, Tea Mountain has formed a unique cultural landscape. Ye Xiang, a girl from the Bulang ethnic group, is taking photos of 5 large and well preserved ancient tea forests, 9 traditional villages distributed among them, and 3 separated protective forests between the ancient tea forests, which constitute the core elements of the heritage site. Chen Yaohua, Director of the World Heritage Research Center at Peking University, believes that the cultural landscape of Jingmai Mountain's ancient tea forest is a model for the protection and rational utilization of mountain and forest resources by indigenous peoples, demonstrating the outstanding ecological wisdom of ancient ancestors in utilizing nature reasonably and sustainably on the basis of understanding and respecting nature. This is an artificially cultivated ancient tea forest with a complete preservation, large area, and long planting history in the world, with a concentrated contiguous area of 18000 acres. "Zhou Tianhong, Deputy Director of the Jingmai Mountain Ancient Tea Forest Protection and Management Bureau in Pu'er, said that there are over 3 million tea trees aged over 50 years in the tea forest, including over 1 million tea trees aged over 100 years. The spatial combination of forests, ancient tea forests, and villages, the tea forest ecosystem similar to natural forests, the unique belief in tea ancestors, and the cultural heritage of indigenous peoples make the mountainous living environment here full of unique charm. From a distance, it looks like a forest, and from a distance, it looks like a tea forest. "In the Dapingzhang Ancient Tea Forest in Jingmai Village, under tall trees, there are multiple ancient tea trees over 2 meters tall scattered. There is also a tea god tree tied with red cloth strips in the tea forest, which is worshipped by the villagers every spring tea season. A section of the ancient tea horse road remains near the ancient tea forest, witnessing the long history of local foreign exchanges and tea trade. Compared to terraced and farmhouse style terrace tea gardens, the Jingmai Mountain ancient tea forest, although adopting a more traditional way of planting under the forest, can fully utilize the stability of the forest ecosystem. "Chen Yaohua said that tea in the forest, in the village tea forest, and outside the tea forest, farmland and other production activities are valuable ecological experiences for the Jingmai Mountain people. I can hold onto my homesickness. Jingmai Mountain can hold onto my homesickness. Half month talk reporters came to the old village of Nuogang, but saw a series of wooden structure houses built along the mountains, still preserving the traditional pattern and historical style of Dai villages. The village is centered around the village center and develops in a centripetal layout. Streets and alleys can lead to the village center, and ancient tea forests grow on the slopes outside the village. Nearby, like Nuogang Laozhai, there are 9 traditional villages distributed in the tea forest, with nearly 5000 residents. There are 531 traditional residential buildings and 317 cultural relics buildings under national key cultural relics protection. these
Edit:Ling Xiaotong Responsible editor:Li Yi
Source:China Comment
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