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Chamagudao post town. Pics of former porters and shop keepers. tea trade died in 1949 when road was built to Luding.

Yaan, Huangyi, Sichuan, China

Author: Michael Yamashita

©Michael Yamashita

Photo size: 28.2 Mpixels (80.6 MB uncompressed) - 6500x4333 pixels (21.7x14.4 in / 55x36.7 cm at 300 ppi)

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In Yiwu, tea leaves dry in the sun outside the oldest tea factory in Yunnan. This earthy-tasting black tea known as puer orig...

Chamagudao post town. Pics of former porters and shop keepers. tea trade died in 1949 when road was built to Luding.

Puer tea is steamed and pressed into flat cakes as it has been for hundreds of years. Here at Yiwu's Bao Pu Shan tea factory,...