The history and origin of Pu'er tea

Pu'er tea in Xishuangbanna, Lincang, Pu'er and other areas of Yunnan Province, large trees, up to 16 meters high, young branches with slight hairs, apical buds with white pubescence. The leaves are thin and leathery, oval. Flowers axillary, pubescent. Bracts 2, early fall. Sepals 5, nearly rounded, glabrous on the outside. Petals 6-7, obovate, glabrous. The stamens are 8-10 mm long, detached, glabrous. Ovary 3-chambered, hairy, columella 8 mm long, apex 3-lobed. Capsule oblate triangular spherical. Seeds 1 per chamber, nearly round, 1 cm in diameter.
Pu'er tea pays attention to brewing skills and the art of drinking, and can be drunk clearly or mixed. Pu'er tea soup is orange and yellow, the aroma is sharp and long-lasting, the fragrance is unique, the taste is strong and mellow, and it is durable to brew.
Pu'er tea was once classified as a dark tea and is now classified as a post-fermented tea in the reprocessed category.

Name definition
It is a tea with unique quality characteristics made from the large-leaf green tea of Yunnan in China within the scope of geographical indication protection and made by specific processing technology within the scope of geographical indication protection. According to its processing technology and quality characteristics, Pu'er tea is divided into two types: Pu'er tea (raw tea) and Pu'er tea (ripe tea).
According to research, the tea of Yinshengcheng is Yunnan large-leaf tea, that is, Pu'er tea. Therefore, the tea produced in Yinsheng City should be the ancestor of Pu'er tea. Therefore, Ruan Fu of the Qing Dynasty said in the "Pu'er Tea Record": "Pu'er belonged to Yinsheng Mansion in ancient times. The use of Pu'er in the West has been since the Tang Dynasty. Song Dynasty Li Shi also recorded in his book "Continuation of the Naturalist": "Tea out of the silver mountains, when there is no time to pick, mixed ginger cooked and drunk." ”
In the Yuan Dynasty, there was a place called "Buribu", which was later written in Chinese characters, so it became "Puer" (at that time, "ear" did not have three points of water). The word Pu'er was first seen here, and since then it has been written into history. Yunnan tea, also known as "Pucha", which has no fixed name, has gradually become an essential commodity for trading in Tibet, Xinjiang and other markets. The word Pu Tea also shocked at home and abroad, and it was not until the end of the Ming Dynasty that it was renamed Pu'er Tea.