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This moongate leads to world´s oldest known tea garden on Mengding peak on Meng mountain about 30 minutes drive by taxi from Ya´an. According to historical records certain Wu Lizhen planted here 7 tea bushes about 50 years BCE thus establishing a tea garden which marked a depart of earlier habit picking tealeaves from wild trees. Much later he was posthumously given a honorary name Ganlu meaning Sweet Dew.

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