The terrain in brown mountain area is characterized by undulating mountains, which are high in the northeast and low in the southwest. This area has a good ecological environment, with an altitude of 535-2082 meters and a forest coverage rate of 67%.

Enjoying a subtropical monsoonal climate, Bulang mountains region is blessed with plentiful rain and a sunny weather. Annually,the average temperature is about 18℃～21℃, the average precipitation is 1,374 mm and basically no frost throughout the year or the frost period is very short.

The ancient tea plantation at Bulang Moutains

There are two seasons in a year, dry and wet. The maximum evaporation occurs from March to April, and the minimum evaporation occurs from November to December. The annual evaporation is greater than the rainfall. When it is in winter and spring, it is often foggy, and when it is in summer and autumn, it is more cloudy and rainy. The annual sunshine time is only 1782 ~ 2323 hours. Due to the influence of warm air flow from the Bay of Bengal in summer and autumn, but controlled by the dry and warm westerly air flow from the Indian peninsula in winter and spring, and blocked by mount Ailao and Mount Wuliang in the north, the climate characteristics of "no cold winter, no hot summer, like spring all the year round" have been formed in the BuLang Mountains area.

History

Brown mountain area has a long history of tea planting. The old tea trees preserved so far in old man'e, old banzhang and new banzhang show that brown nationality began to plant tea more than 1,000 years ago.

Without artificial fertilization and the influence of pesticides, the tea in brown mountain is a green and healthy ecological tea, so it is highly praised by tea lovers all over the world.

Characteristics of Bulang mountains Pu'erh tea

The taste of tea produced in each village of brown tea is relatively different. Generally, the characteristics of raw tea in brown mountain are: the aroma of tea is rich, the tea soup has fruit aroma, the color of tea soup is bright, the taste is strong, thick and strong, and the irritation is strong.

Why do most of the Ripened pu'er tea on the market come from brown mountain?

1. There are many tea trees in brown mountain area and the tea planting area is also large. Whether raw or cooked Pu'er tea, in terms of scale, the tea production scale in Bulang mountains area is many times larger than that in Yiwu mountain area. 

Ancient tea trees on Bulang Moutains

2.Low price and strong taste are the characteristics of cultivated Taidi (terrace) tea of Bulang mountains , but when they are (渥堆) heaped and fermented, they have a thick texture that many people like.

3.Many large factories had been built there, and the hot products of these factories were produced with the main materials from the Bulang mountains area.