Mengku Snow Mountain Location: Shuangjiang County is located in southwestern Yunnan Province, because the Lancang River and the small black river confluence in the southeast of the county and named. 1985 June 11, approved by the State Council, the establishment of Shuangjiang County. County land area of 2,165 square kilometers, of which the mountainous areas account for 96.2%; jurisdiction of 4 townships and 72 towns 72 villagers committees, 3 communities and two farms, with a total population of 165,000 people, there are 23 ethnic minorities, accounting for 44.4% of the total population. The Tropic of Cancer crosses Shuangjiang County, with the highest altitude of 3233 meters and the lowest altitude of 670 meters, the landforms vary greatly in height, and the three-dimensional climate characteristics are obvious, and there is the saying that “the grass does not wither through the winter, and the flowers do not give up even in the spring”, and that it is a bright “green pearl” on the Tropic of Cancer. It is a bright “green pearl” on the Tropic of Cancer.
The county has a tea area of more than 80,000 acres, of which more than 100 years of cultivation of ancient tea gardens amounted to more than 20,000 acres, with an annual output of more than 4,000 tons of tea. The superior ecological environment, unique climatic conditions, high-quality raw material base and natural storage warehouses have given birth to the famous brands of “Menghu Pu’er Tea” and “The First Warehouse of Pu’er Tea in the World”.
On March 20, 1997, Mengku Town, Gonglang Village Committee, five village farmers such as Zhang Zhengyun Daxue Mountain medicine, found a large area of wild tea forest, the largest plant 2-3 people can be surrounded by fresh leaves picked and processed when the cultivation of tea to drink, the tea flavor is slightly different than the home-grown tea. In August of the same year, Tofu Zhai village farmers, such as Tang Zhang into three people, and see the same wild ancient tea tree group of Daxue Mountain, the largest of which 1 tree base trunk around the thick 3.25 meters, chest 3.1 meters. The largest wild ancient tea tree, after the scientific research group named No. 1 wild tea tree. in September, the county cultural bureau, menghu town composed of a joint investigation team, the menghu Daxue Mountain wild ancient tea tree group for the first time to investigate, and take photos. On October 22nd of the same year, the People’s Government of Shuangjiang Autonomous County formed a 22-member investigation group with the participation of relevant departments, and went to the wild ancient tea tree group for further investigation. 286 October, the investigation group reported the “Investigation Report” and the “Distribution of Ancient Tea Trees in the Regional Field”. The survey found that the Menghu wild ancient tea tree distribution of the total area of more than 1.2 million acres, the average distribution of 6 per mu, single tea tree based on the nursery 1 3.5 meters, 2 trees 2.9 meters, 3 trees 2.5 meters, distributed in the sea level of 2,250-2,750 meters of the zone.
In March 1998, the Lincang area line summer organization forestry, agriculture, tea, finance, radio and television units, deputy commissioner Chen Xunru, regional agricultural director Zhang Tao, Shuangjiang County, Zhang Hua, deputy mayor of the 44 people personally led the investigation team, in-depth Daxue Mountain, the distribution of tea, morphological characteristics of the preliminary investigation, the area line summer tea office agronomist Li Tai Lun in the Yunnan Tea “1998” total 76 periodical article “Double Tea”, the “Tea”, “Tea”, “Tea”, “Tea”, “Tea”, “Tea”, “Tea”, “Tea”, “Tea” and “Tea”. In 1998, the total 76th periodical article “Shuangjiang County wild ancient tea tree community survey report”, initially recognized the area of 373 hectares. Wild ancient tea tree communities, one is the distribution of high altitude, is currently the world has found the highest altitude of tea tree growth, wild tea tree has a strong resistance to cold and other resilience. Secondly, the distribution area of wild ancient tea tree communities is large, and it is recommended to effectively strengthen the protection, and strengthen the investigation, collection, development and utilization of wild tea species resources. Since then, the Menghu Forestry Station arrangements for employees Jin Huiping is specifically responsible for the Menghu Daxueshan ancient tea forest management and protection work. Since then, some people have written articles to publicize this new discovery, all walks of life are more concerned about this discovery, has become a hot topic of discussion. Sheng Yi Xiang.
In order to find out the Menghu Daxue Mountain wild ancient tea tree communities geographic location, environmental ecology, the biochemical composition of wild tea trees, and further development and utilization of this natural resource, and its protection. The wild ancient tea tree groups, in addition to the county departments concerned and the county organization of the preliminary investigation, the county people’s government has made a detailed investigation of a lot of work.
September 20, 2002, the county biological resources development and innovation office to the Lincang Office of biological resources development and innovation office to submit “on the Shuangjiang County Menghu ancient tea tree communities for scientific research and identification of the implementation of the program,” in October, the County Tea Innovation Office, Zhang Yuanlai, wrote an article “Shuangjiang Autonomous County Menghu ancient tea tree discovery and protection of the use of the development of the proposal,” “Menghu discovery of the development of the use of the protection of the thinking of the ancient tea tree”. On November 28, 2002, the CPC Shuangjiang Autonomous County Committee, the county people’s government set up the Menghu ancient tea tree communities of science and identification of the leading group, responsible for leading and organizing the implementation of the Menghu wild ancient tea tree communities of science and identification work.
December 2002 5-86, organized by the county people’s government, invited the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences Tea Research Institute, the Chinese Academy of Sciences Kunming Institute of Botany, Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences Tea Research Institute, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Yunnan Provincial Tea Association, Lincang Tea Association and other units of the Wild Ancient Tea Tree Inspection Group of the Shuang Jiang Autonomous County Menghu wild ancient tea tree community carried out on-site inspection, transfer of