An Overview of Pu’er tea factories and brands

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5 min readApr 30, 2021

Large Dayi advertisement at Kunming airport

This is a reference of some major Chinese Pǔ ěr factories 普洱茶厂 and brands.

This site serves as some kind of notebook for myself and will be updated when I find the time. In the future I might also move it somewhere else and turn it into some kind of dictionary.

I wrote the names using both in Pinyin, the mainland romanisation of Mandarin Chinese and in simplified Chinese, which is used in Mainland China, hence also in Yúnnán 云南. The traditional characters are set in brackets. In case of Yúnnán: 云南〔雲南〕
It should be noted that in many cases, where the writing should look more official and beautiful, traditional characters are also used in Mainland China. In Taiwan anyway traditional characters are being used, so i’ve added them to the companies from Taiwan.

The reference pictures are either my own or taken from vendor sites.

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Dayi (Taetea) 大益

Name: 大益 (dà yì) dà: big, yì: benefit
Location: Měnghǎi (勐海）
Established: 1940
Factory number: 2

Xià Guān 下关

Name: 下关, named after the city in the northern part of Yunnan. Xia Guan is often referred to as Dali New Town, because Dali Old Town has a long history and is a touristic attraction.
Location: Xià Guān 下关
Established: 1902
Factory number: 3

Lǎo Tóng Zhì 老同志

Name: Lǎo Tóng Zhì literally means Old Comrade. This is a brand of the Hǎi Wān 海湾 tea factory.
Location: Měnghǎi (勐海）
Established: 1999
Factory number: 8

Zhōng Chá 中茶

Name: Zhōng Chá literally means China Tea. As zhōng guó (中国) means China. This factory also appears as CNNP (China National Native Products)
Location: Kūnmíng 昆明
Established: 1949
Factory number: 1

Lí Míng 黎明, Bā Jiǎo Tíng 八角亭

Name: Lí Míng literally means daybreak. Bā Jiǎo Tíng literally means Octagonal Pavilion and is Lí Míng’s Pu’er brand name.
Location: Měnghǎi (勐海）- Měng Zhē 勐遮
Established: 1987 / 1964
Factory number: 0

Chén Shēng Hào 陈升号 (陳升號)

Name:
Location: Měnghǎi (勐海）
Established: 2009
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Six Famous Mountains — Liù Dà Chá Shān 六大茶山

Name: Refers to the six famous tea mountains in Yunnan.
Location: Xishuangbanna
Established: 2002

Chāng Tài 昌泰

Name: chāng meaning prosperous, tài meaning most, safe. So, could be translated as most prosperous
Location: Xishuangbanna
Established: 1998

Nán Jiàn 南涧, Tǔ Lín Fèng Huáng 土林凤凰

Name: Literally the South Gully. A well known product is called Tǔ Lín fènghuáng 土林凤凰, which means stone (or mud) forest.
Location: Dàlǐ 大理
Established: 1985