The Jingmaishan Traditional Tea Forest is located in Lancang
Lahu Autonomous County, Pu'er City Province, Yunnan Province, on the
southwestern border of China. Its earliest known record was in 180 A.D, when
Brown ancestors discovered tea on their migration journey and settled in
Jingmai Mountain, where they built villages, planted tea trees in the primeval
forest, and developed unique cultivation techniques. Throughout the millennia,
several successive ethnic groups such as Brown, Dai and Lahu have come together
to nurture the cultural landscape of this traditional tea forest. In 2012, the
Traditional Tea Forest of Jingmai Mountain was inscribed on the Preparatory
List of China's World Cultural Heritage. In 2022, it was approved as a project
of China's 2022 official nomination for World Cultural Heritage, whose heritage
contains three major elements: traditional tea forests, traditional villages,
and segregated protected forests. In this paper, I will focus on the
interaction between the cultural landscape as heritage and the multi-ethnic
cultural system, focusing on three major elements: nation memory and history,
religious beliefs and local governance systems, and ethnic ecological culture.
Accordingly, I attempt to understand the localized development of cultural
landscapes in an interactive perspective.
Author(s) Details:
Zhu Qiang,
Graduate Student in Anthropology at the School of Sociology and
Anthropology of Xiamen University at Xiamen in the Fujian Province, P. R.
China.
Please see the link here: https://stm.bookpi.org/AEGIE/article/view/13581
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