蒙顶茶

蒙頂茶

méngdǐngchá

noun

Measure Word

一杯蒙顶茶 bēi

Meanings

1 Mengding tea (green tea from Mount Mengding in Sichuan)

Characters

Examples

蒙顶茶是中国最古老的名茶之一。

Méngdǐngchá shì Zhōngguó zuì gǔlǎo de míngchá zhī yī.

Mengding tea is one of China's oldest famous teas.

他泡了一壶蒙顶甘露。

Tā pào le yī hú méngdǐng gānlù.

He brewed a pot of Mengding Ganlu.

Tips

culture

Grown on Mount Meng (蒙山) in Ya'an, Sichuan. Tradition credits a Han-dynasty monk named 吴理真 with planting the first tea bushes here around 53 BCE, making it one of the earliest cultivated tea sites in China.

Stroke Order

蒙 méng

顶 dǐng

茶 chá