Pu’er Tea is made of sun-dried broad-leaf green tea leaves selected in certain areas of Yunnan Province as raw materials. The raw materials are post-fermented and processed into loose tea and pressed tea. The products include raw tea, which is aged naturally and ripe tea which is artificially fermented.

PU’RE is the original spelling but it has been anglicized several times during its westward expanding use. It is manufactured in the Pu’re tea district of southern Yunnan Province in China. It takes its name from the small city of Pu-er and is only a few hundred miles from the Laos and Burma border.

Yunnan Pu’er tea is large-leafed varieties are made fresh leaves. its shape  thick ,the color black bloom or Brown red, Commonly known as liver-colored. Mellow sweet taste, has a unique Fragrance, the “cosmetology tea” reputation.

Introduction and history Pu’er tea is traditionally made with leaves from old wild tea trees of a variety known as “broad leaf tea” or Camellia saneness var. assimilate, which is found in southwest China as well as the bordering tropical regions in Burma, Vietnam, Laos, and the very eastern parts of India. The shoots and young leaves from this varietal are often covered with fine hairs, with the pekoe (two leaves and a bud) larger than other tea varietals. The leaves are also slightly different in chemical composition, which alter the taste and smell of the brewed tea, as well as its desirability for aging. Due to the scarcity of old wild tea trees, Pu’er Tea made using such trees blended from different tea mountains of Yunnan are highly valued, while more and more connoisseurs are seeking Pu’er Tea with leaves taken from a single tea mountain’s wild forests.

Pu’er Tea rose up in the Eastern Han Dynasty, turned into comity in the Tang Dynasty, began to be popular in the Sing Dynasty, as finalized in the Ming Dynasty and was prospered in Qing Dynasty with a history of thousand of years. Pu’er Tea was originally named by its central trading area, in 1729 Qing government had first established an administrative zone named Pu’er Tea zone in Yunnan. From the 1970’s, Pu’er Tea become hot in Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, Japan, Korea and so on. Pu’er Tea is hot because its habitat of high elevation and fogy growing environment, in is pollution-free in nature, is mellow in taste and long in the aftertaste; Moreover, the unique manufacture, transportation, packaging of Pu’er Tea made it become a unique second fermenting tea, thus has formed it’s the unique crusted fragrance and the health care function.

The Guangzhou international spring and autumn high quality tea trade fair held up in November 24, 2002, there were more than 100 tea producers participated in this fair, a caution of Pu’er Tea king tea was also .held up at the same time, the result of caution was quite amazing. 100 gram of Pu’er Tea king tea sold by a deal price of 168,000 RMB Yuan, set down a highest record of tea auction since which the “Tie Kwan Yin king tea” had created a record of 120,000 RMB Yuan in 2001.

On May 20 of 1998, Taiwan had held up the first international Pu’er Tea fair, the 100-year-old Tong Qing tea cakes auctioned by a deal price 5000,000 Taiwan Yuan (equal to RMB 125,000 Yuan) at each piece of 300 gram, Yunnan Pu’er Tea become the international news at the fair.

The generation of the famous Chinese celebrity Lu Xun had auctioned 3 gram, Pu’er Tea in the spring of 2004, the deal price is RMB 12,000 Yuan in total. Pu’er Tea is become popular more and more.
It is processed in handpicked high quality Yunnan Pu’er Tea through scientific mixing and extracting with modern high and new technology. It has rufous outside color. The hot water color is clear and red bright with pure taste and full-bodied fragrance. It has the unique color, fragrance and taste of Pu’er Tea.

As one of the ten major teas in China, Pu’er Tea has a special place in the country’s tea history. The ancient tea road may submerge in history. However, tea has already become an essential part of local people’s lives.

The Pu’er Tea village, located in Southwest Yunnan’s Simao County, is the main production and distribution base for the Pu’er Tea. Local people has a tradition of producing tea, selling tea, making tea and tasting tea, a tradition that can be traced as early as the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220).

In an ordinary people’s house, one can see stele, couplets and paintings hung in the living room. The characters on them, however, are not written by ink but by tealeaves. Senior people sit in the courtyard, where the tea trees grow, and play the Chinese chess while sipping tea. The chessman is made from tealeaves, too.

On festive occasions, some people might buy a bucket of tea and store it in the cellar for many years before giving it as a gift to friends. At present, a 12-kilometer-long ancient tea road is still preserved well and local people want to build a teahouse in ancient style as a tourist attraction.

In a village, Kunlushan, some families designate four to twenty tea trees and take care of them in their spare time. In the village school, a teacher who teaches nature course will often raise questions about tea to his students. They also climb to the mountains and take some tealeaves and make them into samples in the school’s exhibits.

Dianxi Fengqing in the mountains, there are large tracts of wild tea and cultivated tea. These two kinds of tea are significant difference: the wild tea has Strong and thick stalk, and the leaf as big as a loquat, dark green, thick buds, to come out of the reddish color of dry tea, strip thick, bitter taste. Cultivated the tea stalk thin,  leaf slender, yellowish, dry tea bar made out of fine, white, fragrant and sweet.

Fengqing traditional folk craft tea, fresh leaves is harvested in the high temperature in large baked wok, knead strips, Dried in the sun, Or drying is finished. This raw tea leaves is the various brands of production of raw materials. Another method is to pick fresh leaves Airing down to the hand rub is not broken, when the knead strips forming fermentation to light red,  when the knead strips forming fermentation to light red and drying or dried, orange branding tea buds golden, fragrant. Fengqing originally produced only green tea, black tea is not produced.

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