Shuangjiang Bingdao Tea

Shuangjiang Bingdao Tea

　　Shuangjiang Bingdao Tea is a specialty of Shuangjiang County, Lincang City, Yunnan Province. Bingdao tea has a long-lasting sweet aftertaste, bright liquor color, soft and even leaves. Compared to the dominant "Lao Ban Zhang" tea, it offers a richer and more delicate sweetness.

　　Mengku Bingdao (also known locally as "Bingdao") is a famous ancient tea-producing village in Shuangjiang County, well-known for its abundant production of Bingdao large-leaf tea. It is one of the earliest areas in the county where tea trees were cultivated artificially. The Bingdao tea variety is a major component of the renowned Mengku large-leaf variety, and Bingdao Village is the main birthplace of the Mengku tea variety. The area has a long history of tea production, with written records dating back to the Ming Dynasty (around 1485), though oral legends predate even that period.

　　The oldest Bingdao tea trees date back over a thousand years and are among the few in Yunnan Province that grow without the use of chemical fertilizers, pesticides, or other inorganic substances—making them purely natural, pollution-free, and original ecological teas. Bingdao tea has a long-lasting sweet aftertaste, bright liquor color, soft and even leaves. Compared to the dominant "Lao Ban Zhang" tea, it offers a richer and more delicate sweetness, and is especially favored by many women. Its liquor is even and bright, thick as oil; its taste is complex and layered, leaving a lingering fragrance on the lips and teeth; after drinking, the honey-like aroma remains in the teacup for a long time. It is the perfect choice for socializing, entertainment, and tea appreciation.

　　Shuangjiang Bingdao Tea is an outstanding representative of the Mengku large-leaf tea variety. Rong Jiasheng, Chairman of Yunnan Shuangjiang Mengku Tea Co., Ltd., stated that Bingdao tea—one bud with three leaves, or one bud with two leaves for spring tea—contains 3.4% amino acids, 35.1% tea polyphenols, 4.9% caffeine, and 16.7% total catechins. Locally produced Pu'er teas such as "Mangbo" and "Qinggang" feature high tea polyphenol content, exceptionally strong qi (energy), and a richly sweet taste. Whether among experts, collectors, or casual tea drinkers, Shuangjiang Mengku large-leaf Bingdao tea receives high praise.

　　It is understood that Shuangjiang County is a green jewel on the Tropic of Cancer, with 107,000 mu of operational tea plantations. Among these, Yunnan Shuangjiang Mengku Tea Company has 54,000 mu of harvestable tea gardens, including 10,800 mu of organic tea gardens and 43,000 mu of pollution-free tea gardens. It is a national key leading enterprise in agricultural industrialization, integrating the cultivation, primary processing, refined processing, R&D, and sales of Mengku large-leaf tea. It is also one of the four UNESCO FAO demonstration bases in China for the "Production, Development, and Trade of Organic Tea." Wu Yongchao, Director of the Shuangjiang County Quality Supervision Bureau, mentioned when discussing the application for national geographical indication product protection for Shuangjiang Bingdao Tea that currently, the "Mengku" brand tea from Shuangjiang County has been recognized as a Famous Trademark of China, and the "Mengkang" brand tea has been awarded the Yunnan Famous Trademark. The tea industry has become an important pillar of Shuangjiang County’s economic development.