Guangdong Puerh (Guang Yun Puerh Tea)

In the 1950s, Yunnan district had to send a fair bit of puerh tea to Guangdong (southern province of China) for processing into puerh tea for the world market. The reason is that Guangdong is sea port where merchant ships all over the world came here to load and unload their cargo. If the tea was processed here, I would be easier for the tea producers to export their tea. This gave rise to the so-called GuangYun Gong Ping (Yunna puerh tea from Guangdong). This practise went on for decades until the late 1980s or early 1990s. Now the province of Yunnan no longer supplies puerh tea to Guangdong for processing. GuangYun puerh tea has now become antiques.

Here is a piece of GuangYun puerh tea made in the 1970s with it wrapper intact.

Yunnan tea processed in Guangdong