Tea is a treasure given by nature to the hard-working and kind Brown people. Tea is indispensable in the lives of the Brown people. For thousands of years of tea, Brown people talk about tea, eat tea, sing tea, and use tea ......It can be described as the extreme. The Brown people are descendants of the ancient Chinese "Pu people" (Baipu). Some experts pointed out that tea was first discovered and planted by the ancient "Pu people" in Yunnan.
There is such a story in the Brown folklore:
The ancestors of the Brown tribe had a leader who was able to write and be good at martial arts, and he led his people to frequent victories and achievements in the conquest of foreign tribes. The leader of the alien race was afraid and hated, and did not dare to confront him head-on, and used a vicious trick - bribing the villain to poison Horn Yan Leng. On the night of his death, he turned into a fairy and spread in the sky: "I am gone, but I miss you in my heart, I want to leave you gold and silver treasures, but you will one day run out; I want to leave you with cattle and horses, and I am afraid that you will die of the plague. I'll leave it to you 'La' (from then on, the Dai, Brown, Wa, and Lahu people related to tea cultivation all call tea 'La'). Let your children and grandchildren, from generation to generation, eat the leaves and wear them. With that, a bright light slowly disappeared into the western sky. The next day, the Brown village was littered with small saplings that had never been seen before. The Brown people carefully cared for these small green saplings, and planted them on a large scale in Shuangjiang, Yongde, Zhenkang and other counties in Lincang in the Lancang River Basin. Every year on the seventh day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar, the Brown people have to worship the tea ancestor Horn Yanleng under a big tea tree.
These legends are impossible to verify, but it is appropriate to say that the Brown people have a relationship with tea as "thousands of years". In Mengban Township, Yongde County, there is indeed a Brown village that eats, wears, and uses tea as in the legend - Datian.
Daejeon, this mysterious hill, this village has only about 480 acres of land area, and more than 42,000 tea trees, the lowest altitude of 800 meters, the highest altitude of 2,300 meters, the existing farmers 42 households, more than 180 people, labor accounted for 40. Households in difficulty account for two-thirds of the total number of rural households. The economic income is mainly based on the cultivation of tea, corn, rice, vegetables, artichoke, and livestock breeding. Daejeon has three uniques: "old tea trees, many tea arts, and strong tea customs". Daejeon is more than 20 kilometers away from Yongdeok County. Perhaps it was the unique vision of the ancestors of Daejeon Brown that settled the cottage in a beautiful territory. Perhaps from the day the family settled, the village was destined to form an indissoluble bond with tea.
Datian Brown Village, according to legend, in the 16th year of Shunzhi (1659), the Qing Dynasty at that time discriminated against ethnic minorities, ranked ethnic minorities last, and the royal family sent local commanders to hunt down and kill ethnic minorities. However, in order to avoid war, some Brown people had to flee here and live on both sides of the "Saimin River" in seclusion. The Brown people originally had a name but no surname, but in order to avoid being chased by officers and soldiers, they changed their names and surnames, and some changed their surnames to Xiao, Yang, Zhang, Ban, Sha, and other surnames. and moved to the "busy sea and mountain". At that time, in order to grow food, a large paddy field was opened up. Later, the ancestors named the place where they lived "Daejeon".
It is located on the busy sea mountain that stands side by side with the thousand-year-old tea mountain of Mengban, adjacent to the "busy sea new village", "big old village" and "big pond" and other villages. In the distance, the trees are green, and in the near distance are patches of tea plantations. Most of these tea mountains are in the mountainous and semi-mountainous areas at an altitude of 800m-2100m, and the soil is red and yellow loam, with a deep soil layer and an organic matter content of 38％-6.5. The forest vegetation is good and the ecological conditions are superior. There are many ancestors here who artificially cultivated ancient tea trees, and even the parents do not know the age of these old tea trees. Walking through the ancient tea trees and overlooking the endless ancient tea mountains under the clear blue sky opposite will surely make you have endless reverie.
In Datian Village, tea is made by hand using the traditional handicraft of the Brown people, which has been preserved from generation to generation. The Brown people have relatively little communication with the outside world, are economically backward, and basically live in barter. Every year, after picking tea leaves and harvesting crops, the men in the family will take the tea and a small part of the grain to the ancient town to exchange materials, such as: salt, matches, cloth, etc. Partially converted into currency. At that time, there were no roads, no means of transportation, and the ancestors of the Brown tribe mainly used horses, mules, and oxen to transport supplies. So the village set up a horse gang and crossed the mountains to the ancient town far away in exchange for supplies. It is also the well-known "Ancient Tea Horse Road" in Yunnan and other places. There is not just one ancient tea horse road in history. It's a huge transportation network. The ancestors' "Ancient Tea Horse Road" runs through Mengban-Dedang-Ebony Dragon-Fengqing-Minglang-Southern Umbrella-Xiaomengtong-Myanmar and so on. Because of the steepness of the road, it is not known to outsiders. It is purely a mountain road for private trade. There are many types of goods transported, but the goods that are remembered by history are only tea in the end.
Until the founding of New China, after the reform and opening up. The Browns have always lived like this. In 1994, the whole village tried its best, and everyone went out to work, from the sheep intestine path in the primeval forest, people carried hundreds of cement poles step by step on their backs and shoulders to carry up the mountains such as Xianhai Mountain, Linggangjiao, Dajiuzhai, etc., ending the "dark" years of relying on fire ponds and kerosene lamps for generations.
In 1996, ** provided explosives, and the villagers, regardless of men, women, and children, contributed their efforts, using oxen to plow and people to pull, for a year. The Browns dug through the rural road leading to the outside world in Ota Village with a hoe, ending the history of the Browns who had been isolated from the world for thousands of years. Since then, the thousand-year-old tea hidden in the mountains has gradually been recognized by the outside world.
In 2012, Daejeon Xiao and Xiao Jianrong founded Chayunzhinan Tea Industry