National Parks of ChinaOverview
| Designation | UNESCO World Heritage (cultural, 2023) |
| Name | 普洱景迈山古茶林文化景观 |
| Country | China |
| Nearby cities | Kunming |
| Nearby sites | Stone Forest of Lunan, Jade Dragon Snow Mountain and Lijiang, Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan, Xishuangbanna, Cultural Landscape of Honghe Hani Rice Terraces, Jianshui |
| Latitude, longitude | 22.18, 100.01 Google Maps |
About
Cultural Landscape of Old Tea Forests of the Jingmai Mountain in Pu’er (普洱景迈山古茶林文化景观) was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2023 as a cultural site.
Why it was inscribed
The World Heritage Committee found that it meets criteria (iii), (v) of the ten selection criteria:
(iii) a unique or at least exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or to a civilization which is living or which has disappeared.
(v) an outstanding example of a traditional human settlement, land-use or sea-use representative of a culture, or of human interaction with the environment, especially when it has become vulnerable to irreversible change.
Description (UNESCO World Heritage Centre)
Located on Jingmai Mountain in southwestern China, this cultural landscape was developed over a thousand years by the Blang and Dai peoples following practices that began in the 10th century. The property is a tea production area comprised of traditional villages within old tea groves surrounded by forests and tea plantations. The traditional understorey cultivation of old tea trees is a method that responds to the specific conditions of the mountain’s ecosystem and subtropical monsoon climate, combined with a governance system maintained by the local Indigenous communities. Traditional ceremo