Langfu Black Tea

Langfu Black Tea

　　In the Shali Yao Township of Lingyun County, Guangxi, on the southeastern foothills of China's Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, there lies a mountainous area called "Langfu," one of the most remote regions in the Zhuang-inhabited areas of Guangxi. For generations, the Zhuang people have lived here. They regard the five grains as sacred, subsist on mixed grains, and honor tea drinking. According to the legends of the ancestors of Langfu, because the land was fertile and suitable for growing various grains, the ancestors of the Zhuang people in Langfu settled here and named it "Langfu." In the Zhuang language, "Lang" refers to fertile mountain ridges or slopes, and "Fu" means fullness and harvest. The character "Lang" in Langfu represents spring and summer, signifying spring plowing, sowing, and summer growth, while "Fu" represents autumn and winter, symbolizing autumn harvest and winter storage. By naming the place "Langfu," the ancestors of the Zhuang people in Langfu aimed to pass down this philosophy through generations, reminding their descendants to follow the principles of yin and yang and the laws of natural development in farming and daily life.

　　Generation after generation, the people of Langfu have grown tea in these mountains, though on a small scale. Starting in 1992, the village began large-scale tea cultivation, and within just a few years, tea production had reached a significant scale. In 1999, Huang Daxiong, the native-born chairman of Guangxi Lingyun Langfu Tea Industry Co., Ltd., applied to register the "Langfu" trademark. It was approved by the State Administration for Industry and Commerce of China in 2001. The Langfu trademark design, personally drawn by Huang Daxiong and developed into a final visual by a professional design company, features mountains, water, and tea. It conveys that only high mountains bathed in morning light and rain can grow good tea, that fine tea must be brewed with mountain spring water rich in the essence of nature, and that such pure water also originates from pristine deep forests.