Exploring the linguistics landscape of Pu’er tea: A case study of Bulang tea tradition in Laoman’e village
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https://doi.org/10.62819/jel.2024.458Keywords:
Ancient tea, king tea, Pu’er tea, Bulang Buddhist community, Laoman’e village, and Xishuangbanna.Abstract
This study presents Pu'er tea's range while shedding light on its identity and classifications, which are directly related to Yunnan province's growth. The previous scholarship had widely neglected this topic and failed to examine the diversity of Pu'er tea. However, for this research work, fills the research gaps of the four primary objectives: identifying and highlighting ancient and king Pu'er teas; assessing the economic standing of the Bulang Buddhist community; differentiating between these two varieties of Pu'er tea; and exploring the historical context of Chinese tea culture. The study revealed four main findings such as the first finding suggests that tea traders promoted the phrase "Pu'er tea" to integrate and assess all Pu'er area tea varieties in order to enhance sales. The second finding, based on Chinese tea history, demonstrates the significance of ancient and King Pu'er teas for the Bulang Buddhist community. The third finding indicates a total of eight varieties of Pu'er tea, and the fourth finding shows the significant important of ancient and king tea of Buang Buddhist community in the Laoman’e village. This study used a mixed-methods approach, integrating both qualitative and quantitative research data, and analyzing data constantly. Therefore, the author conducted in-depth interviews with twenty-two study participants and carried out fieldwork in the Laoman'e hamlet in Xishuangbanna, in the Chinese province of Yunnan. This study was significant for the Bulang Buddhist ethnic group of Laoman’e village, which relies mostly on ancient and king pu'er tea sales in the mountainous region of Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, China.
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