Chengmai Bitter Tea

Chengmai Bitter Tea

Chengmai Bitter Tea is a geographical indication protected product.

　　　　    Chengmai Wanchang Bitter Tea is cultivated using advanced seedling techniques, propagating and promoting planting from thousand-year-old wild tea tree branches in the Wuzhishan area of Hainan. It has now developed 2,000 acres of high-yield bitter tea gardens, generating an annual output value of over 15 million yuan, with products highly favored by consumers. Bitter tea is a valuable and precious health product in ancient China used both as medicine and beverage. It offers benefits such as clearing heat and detoxifying, reducing inflammation and facilitating bowel movements, aiding in weight loss and fighting cancer, and improving liver function and eyesight. It shows significant therapeutic effects on diseases such as hypertension, arteriosclerosis, diabetes, and pharyngitis.

　　  Hainan bitter tea is mainly distributed in the tropical jungles of the Wuzhishan area in Hainan. The trees are very large, with the largest having a diameter at breast height of up to 2.5 meters and a height of 50 to 60 meters. Some trees are a thousand years old. They have lush foliage and provide ample shade. The leaves have a waxy texture, mild bitterness, and a rich aftertaste of sweetness. This is a variety of bitter tea with very high medicinal value. According to "Compendium of Materia Medica," bitter tea can effectively regulate the body's metabolic functions, significantly lowering serum total cholesterol, triglycerides, and low-density lipoprotein in patients with high blood lipids. It has obvious preventive and therapeutic effects on conditions such as hypertension, high blood lipids, elevated cholesterol, arteriosclerosis, diabetes, and obesity, while also providing functions such as clearing heat, detoxifying, reducing inflammation, and facilitating bowel movements.

　　  Every piece of wild bitter tea is handpicked by tea workers from the misty mountains, making it truly a green beverage. Therefore, wild bitter tea from Hainan has gradually become a consumption trend among people today, and of course, it has also become one of the best Hainan specialties for tourists to purchase.