蒙顶茶

蒙頂茶

méngdǐngchá

noun

Measure Word

一杯蒙顶茶 bēi

Meanings

1 Mengding tea (green tea from Mount Mengding in Sichuan)

Characters

Examples

HSK 5

蒙顶茶是中国最古老的名茶之一。

Méngdǐngchá shì Zhōngguó zuì gǔlǎo de míng chá zhīyī.

Mengding tea is one of China's oldest famous teas.

HSK 6

他给客人泡了一壶蒙顶茶。

Tā gěi kèren pào le yì hú méngdǐngchá.

He brewed a pot of Mengding tea for his guests.

Tips

culture

Grown on Mount Meng (蒙山) in Ya'an, Sichuan. Tradition credits a Han-dynasty monk named 吴理真 with planting the first tea bushes here around 53 BCE, making it one of the earliest cultivated tea sites in China.

Stroke Order

蒙 méng

顶 dǐng

茶 chá