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Yellow Teas
Meng Ding Huang Ya
Meng Mountain Peak's Yellow Buds are purely prepared with pure single buds that were picked right before
the April 5th each year from the limited area in the downhills near the ancient royal tea court. The tea leaves
are long and flat in yellow colour. The tea is light yellow in colour with slightly green, sweet and mild, sweet
and mellow in taste. It is the treasure of yellow teas.
To prepare Meng Mountain Peak's Yellow Buds, take 3-5g, brew with 85º water for 3-5 minutes. Re-steep as
desired.
Minimum Order Quality: 1 kg
Delivery to all metropolitan areas in Australia
Please contact sales@jingtea.com.au for pricing
In Tang Dynasty was the golden age for the Meng Mountain's Teas. It officially became the imperial tribute for
the Emperor in AD 742 with its well-known prestige and non to the second quality in China. It is recorded in
history that Meng Mountain's teas had been the mostly popular tribute tea among all the other tribute teas with
the biggest recorded number of quantities in history (each year: 365 pieces of pure leaves for offering to the
God + 14kg for the Emperor). In Tang Dynasty, China and Japan kept close relationship. During AD 630-894,
Japan sent hundreds of officials, monks and students to China for about 13 times. In AD 840, Japanese Monk
Yuan Ren (Chinese Religious Name) was setting off back to Japan from Chang-an after he finished his
studies. The emperor Li Ang included 1000g Meng Mountain's teas in the official presents, which made Meng
Mountain's tea firstly introduced to the overseas as one of the national presents of China. During the Song
Dynasty, the quality of Meng Mountain's teas has been greatly developed. It has always been the tributes to the
following emperors in the Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing Dynasties. It has been rewarded by the history as the "No. 1
tea outside the heaven". It had also been one of the national presents of China in the 50s and enjoyed its
popularity in the US, Japan, Switzerland etc in the 70s, until the decline of its exporting due to the geographic
disadvantage.
Jing Tea prides itself to be the only business trading Meng Mountain's teas internationally.
Meng Mountain Peak's Yellow Buds
There has been an ancient saying in China that
"Where there is the water in the Yang-zi River,
there is the tea in Meng Mountain".
The earliest production of Meng Mountain's teas
began since BC 53 in the West Han Dynasty. A
locate Monk, Wu Lizhen, planted seven in
creditable seeds into a very small pieces of land
between the five peaks of Meng Mountain in
Szechwan Province. This began the recorded tea
history of China.