11/27/2008 - About puer talk,anne and zhuizi
About puer
Q:zhuizi,I am a friend of Maggie in Kunming. I live in Melbourne, Australia.
She tells me you are very knowledgeable about Puer. May I ask you a question?
She and I visited Ning'er together and heard about the events in 2007.
Is it true that the price of Pu'er dropped soon after the county changed name to Ning'er from Pu'er? The name change and Pu'er tea festival was in April from 8th to 10th 2007.
A teashop owner told us the the name changed, then the price dropped, then the earth quake happened on June 3rd.
Can you please confirm this sequence of events? I do not know where to check about the drop in market price. Did it drop between April 8th and June 3rd?
Thanks for your help, I am writing a book about tea, with a chapter on Pu'er.
A:I am so surprised to receive your email. You said somebody told you that Pu'er tea was dropped soon after the county changed name from Pu'er to Ning'er .But I'd like to tell you,It is unture!
Pu'er tea dropped soon is foreign to the county changed name.it dropped soon because the economy of Pu'er tea is faultiness, Pu'er tea business is a new industry,wich needs time to development.
Q:I agree with you. Of course a price drop would have nothing to do with the name change, I was merely interested in the sequence of events.
The Ning'er locals like to look at cosmic connections between events. This of course has no relation to logic market forces. However, if you have any evidence of a price drop around that time, I would be interested to read about it.
Thank you for taking time to respond to a silly request.
I wish I could read your magazine in Chinese! Sorry to only be able to write to you in English.
I received your letter very soon！so I write to you as soon as I can.
A: At this moment, I don't have any evidence of a price drop around that time, but I will seeing about it from now on.If I collect any evidence，I can tell you.
Today,in China,Pu'er tea is turn more and more famous!Thanks reading my magazine!Welcome you visit me when you have time.
Q:I have another tea question for you.
Do you know which year they started manufacturing Shu Pu'er in Menghai? Was it around 1970?
Was it only Sheng Pu'er available before that?
A:On Shu Pu'er, there are two periods. First period is handwork workshop, Hong Kong Shu Pu'er. In my interview article of luzhuxunm, initiator of Shu Pu'er, he invent the process way to Shu Pu'er into puer in 1945.Then the skill of process Shu Pu'er spread to Guangzhou, then spread to Kunming,Yunnan. Second period, WUQIYIN from Kunming tea factory improved the puer process technique in 1975.Since then, Shu Pu'er be produced in large scale industrialization. Produced by MENGAHAI is authorized produve. I have an article on "puer magazine" Feb.2008, if have chance you could read it.
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