CHINA-YUNNAN-PU'ER-OLD TEA FORESTS-WORLD HERITAGE SITE-MODERN LIFE (CN)

CHINA-YUNNAN-PU'ER-OLD TEA FORESTS-WORLD HERITAGE SITE-MODERN LIFE (CN)

(230919) -- PU'ER, Sept. 19, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A tea farmer selects tea leaves at a traditional village of the Jingmai Mountain in Pu'er, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Sept. 16, 2023. The Cultural Landscape of Old Tea Forests of Jingmai Mountain in Pu'er, southwest China's Yunnan Province, was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List on Sunday. At its extended 45th session in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the UNESCO World Heritage Committee examined the site nominated by China and added it to the list as a cultural property, making it China's 57th World Heritage site. Jingmai Mountain is home to communities of well-preserved ancient tea trees, and the local history of the human cultivation of tea trees can be traced back more than 1,000 years. Around the 10th century, the ancestors of the Bulang ethnic group migrated to Jingmai Mountain, where they discovered and built knowledge on wild tea trees. Gradually, they adapted to the forest ecosystem along with the Dai people and other ethnic groups who ca

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