Wengji Blang Village - China

 China adds new sites to the UNESCO WHS list almost every year and last year was no exception. The Cultural Landscape of Old Tea Forests on the Jingmai Mountain in Pu'er was inscribed last september, bringing the total number of the country's UNESCO World Heritage sites to 57. With this card, also sent by Johnson, I've cards from all the Chinese sites!!

The heritage site consists of five old tea forests covering an area of 1,180 hectares, nine ancient villages with a population of about 5,000 and three protective partition forests. One of those nine ancient villages is the Wengji Blang Village.

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 ceremonies and festivities relate to the Tea Ancestor belief that spirits live in the tea plantations and in the local fauna and flora, a belief that is at the core of this cultural tradition.- in: https://whc.unesco.org