Wuguishan Black Tea

Wuguishan Black Tea

　　　    Wuguishan Black Tea was first planted in April 1977, when the Bai Shi’ao Educated Youth Farm in Wuguishan pioneered the cultivation of 160 acres of tea trees on the back hill, naming the tea “Wuguishan Black Tea.” Subsequently, management areas such as Guinan, Shigu, and Changmingshui, along with various small forest farms, successively cleared land to plant hundreds of acres. In 1985, the town reclaimed land to cultivate 60 acres of Yunnan large-leaf tea trees, naming it the Wuguishan Tea Farm. The peak period for tea cultivation was in 1988, with a total area of approximately 1,100 acres and a total output of 30 tons. In the early stages, tea production at various farms combined manual and mechanical methods, but later the Wuguishan Tea Farm fully transitioned to mechanical tea processing. Due to various reasons, the tea farms in Guinan and Changmingshui management areas were gradually abandoned in 1991. The Wuguishan Tea Farm retained 60 acres, while over 10 acres remained at Baishi’ao in Nanqiao, with several dozen acres spread across other forest farms, yielding about 8,000 kilograms annually. In 2000, the Wuguishan Tea Farm and the city forest farm tea farm were successively contracted to private operators, renamed Longzhu Tea House and Tea Fun Garden respectively, and have since been developed into one of Zhongshan’s tourist shopping destinations. Wuguishan Black Tea grows deep in the mild, rainy mountain forests of Wuguishan, resulting in a mellow, delicious flavor and an orange-red hue.