Telling the World the Story of China - "Pu'er Jingmai Mountain Ancient Tea Forest Cultural Landscape" Listed on the Heritage List
CCTV news: At 20:33 p.m. on September 17, Beijing time, at the 45th UNESCO World Heritage Conference held in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, through the on-site resolution of the review committee, China's declared "Pu'er Jingmai Mountain Ancient Tea Forest Cultural Landscape" was successfully included in the The World Heritage List, becoming the world's first tea themed world cultural heritage. The number of world heritage sites in China has increased to 57.
The cultural landscape of Pu'er Jingmai Mountain ancient tea forest is located in Lancang Lahu Autonomous County, Pu'er City, Yunnan Province. It is a typical representative of the most complete and rich artificial cultivated ancient tea forest, consisting of 5 ancient tea forests, 9 villages of the Bulang and Dai ethnic groups, and 3 separated protective forests. Since the 10th century AD, the ancestors of the Bulang ethnic group have discovered and learned about wild tea trees, utilized forest ecosystems, and explored "understory tea" planting techniques with Dai and other ethnic groups. After thousands of years of protection and development, they have formed a unique cultural landscape of forest tea symbiosis and harmonious coexistence between humans and the environment. To this day, it still maintains vigorous vitality and is the wisdom crystallization of China's agricultural civilization, as well as a model of benign interaction and sustainable development between humans and nature.
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Xiao Li, Deputy Director of the Department of Cultural Relics and Monuments of the National Cutural Heritage Administration: Yunnan's "Pu'er Scenery Maishan Ancient Tea Forest Cultural Landscape" fills the gap of the "tea" theme project in the The World Heritage List, vividly demonstrates the long history and outstanding achievements of Chinese tea culture through the fresh material cultural heritage and its hosting environment, and further consolidates China's leading position in the world's tea origin, planting, trade and tea culture dissemination. By applying for World Heritage, telling the story of China to the world, enhancing cultural exchanges and mutual learning among countries, promoting people to people communication, and contributing to the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind.