普洱茶是云南的历史名茶，从唐代樊绰《蛮书》中记载“散收，无采造法”初始状态的普洱茶，到现代用人工后发酵方法生产的普洱茶，经历了一千多年的历史变迁。我接触认识普洱茶，是在20世纪60年代初，国家四个部组织有关专家在云南勐海搞红碎茶试制试验期间，有幸在勐海呆了两年。那时的普洱沱茶还是人工压制，工人们用一条板凳压杆式压制沱茶的技术十分熟练，现在可能见不到了。在勐海期间，亲身去南糯山采茶、制茶，当时面对如此之大的乔木型古茶树林十分惊讶。800多年树龄的南糯山茶树王，就是那时见到的。
Pu'er tea is the historically famous tea in Yunnan. It took over 1,000 years to complete the historical change from Pu'er tea in the initial state recorded in the "Manshu" by Fan Chuo of the Tang Dynasty to that produced with man-made formentation process in modern times. It was in the early 1960s that I began to contact and know Pu'er tea when four ministries of the state organized related experts to conduct the trial production and test of broken black tea in Menghai in Yunnan, where I fortunately stayed for two years. At that time, Pu'er Tuo tea was produced by man-made pressing; that technique, according to which workers proficiently pressed Tuo tea with a bench like a pressure lever, may not be seen now. As I was in Menghai, I personally picked tea leaves and made tea. Then, I was amazed to see such large arbors of ancient tea. It was at that time that I saw the tea tree king with over 800 years of age in Nannuoshan.
Pu'er tea is the historically famous tea in Yunnan. It took over 1,000 years to complete the historical change from Pu'er tea in the initial state recorded in the "Manshu" by Fan Chuo of the Tang Dynasty to that produced with man-made formentation process in modern times. It was in the early 1960s that I began to contact and know Pu'er tea when four ministries of the state organized related experts to conduct the trial production and test of broken black tea in Menghai in Yunnan, where I fortunately stayed for two years. At that time, Pu'er Tuo tea was produced by man-made pressing; that technique, according to which workers proficiently pressed Tuo tea with a bench like a pressure lever, may not be seen now. As I was in Menghai, I personally picked tea leaves and made tea. Then, I was amazed to see such large arbors of ancient tea. It was at that time that I saw the tea tree king with over 800 years of age in Nannuoshan.
