1665 CN - Cultural Landscape of Old Tea Forests of the Jingmai Mountain in Pu’er (2023)

Located on Jingmai Mountain in southwestern China, this cultural landscape was developed over a thousand years by the Blang and Dai peoples following practices that began in the 10th century. The property is a tea production area comprised of traditional villages within old tea groves surrounded by forests and tea plantations. The traditional understorey cultivation of old tea trees is a method that responds to the specific conditions of the mountain’s ecosystem and subtropical monsoon climate, combined with a governance system maintained by the local Indigenous communities. Traditional ceremonies and festivities relate to the Tea Ancestor belief that spirits live in the tea plantations and in the local fauna and flora, a belief that is at the core of this cultural tradition.

该文化景观位于中国云南景迈山，由当地布朗族、傣族民众遵循始于10世纪的实践，历经千余年培育而成。这里是一片茶乡，森林和茶园环绕的多个传统村落掩映在古茶树间。古茶树的传统林下栽培方式，因应山区生态系统和亚热带季风气候的特点，并与当地社区维护的管理体系相结合。人们笃信“茶祖”，他们相信茶树有灵、自然有灵，这里的传统仪式和节庆活动与这一信仰密切相关。

Source UNESCO WH website http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1665