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title: "Měnghǎi Jiéliáng chá"
url: https://thetea.app/article/menghai-jieliang-cha
lang: en
updated: 2026-10-01
source: THE TEA — encyclopedia of Chinese tea (https://thetea.app)
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# Měnghǎi Jiéliáng chá (勐海结良茶)

*Měnghǎi Jiéliáng chá* ([勐海](https://thetea.app/article/meng-hai)结良茶) is a geographical mark for the tea of Jieliang (结良) — one of the seven administrative villages of Bulangshan Township in Menghai County (勐海县), Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province. Little is known about this mark: the descriptions of the old gardens of Bulangshan that were found do not mention the name 结良, but they do mention a village committee with the similar-sounding name 吉良. Which class of tea the mark covers and what tea is made in Jieliang are not stated in the sources consulted.

**1. Classification and Origin:**

* **Type:** Not fixed by the document of the mark. The old gardens of Menghai are a source of large-leaf raw material above all for pu-erh, but red and white tea are also made from the same leaf; the register does not say which product the mark covers.
* **Category:** A village geographical mark of Menghai County — a collective or certification trademark.
* **Origin:** China, Yunnan Province (云南, *Yúnnán*), Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Menghai County (勐海县, *Měnghǎi Xiàn*), Bulangshan Bulang Ethnic Township ([布朗山](https://thetea.app/article/bu-lang-shan)布朗族乡, *Bùlǎngshān Bùlǎngzú Xiāng*), the administrative village of Jieliang (结良村, *Jiéliáng cūn*). In all, the township has seven administrative villages: Meng'ang, Banzhang, Zhangjia, Mannan, Manguo, Xinlong and Jieliang.
* **Jieliang and Jiliang:** Tea descriptions of Bulangshan write that the old gardens of the township lie in three village committees — Banzhang, Meng'ang and Jiliang (吉良), and name the Jiliang villagers' group among the places with old gardens. In the administrative list of the township there is no 吉良; there is 结良. In the same tea texts the Meng'ang (勐昂) committee is written with an error — 勐昴, so the names of committees are rendered inaccurately there. This makes a match between 吉良 and 结良 plausible, but none of the sources found confirms it directly.
* **Zone of the mark:** The provincial list names only the prefecture and the county — this is the administrative affiliation of the mark holder; I have not checked the legal boundary of the zone, and the boundary of the village as the zone of the mark is not confirmed in the sources consulted.
* **Geographic coordinates:** Exact coordinates are not found in the sources consulted. The center of Bulangshan Township is at about 21.59° N and 100.42° E.

**2. History and Cultural Significance:**

* **History:**
    * **The village.** A history of Jieliang is not found in the sources consulted.
    * **2012–2014.** The county tea industry technical service center (勐海县茶叶技术服务中心) applied for the umbrella certification mark “勐海茶” in 2012; it was registered in 2014.
    * **By 2019.** The mark “勐海结良茶” was registered: the provincial list of geographical trademarks of Yunnan as of December 28, 2019 lists it in line 228, next to the umbrella “勐海茶” and fourteen more marks of mountains and villages of the county (the press in 2022 wrote of sixteen). The registration number, the holder, the year and the product class are not named in the sources consulted; whether the mark is in force now is not confirmed.
* **Name:** “Menghai” (勐海) is the name of the county; “Jieliang” (结良) is the name of the administrative village, and the meaning of the place name is not explained in the sources consulted; “cha” (茶, *chá*) means tea.
* **Cultural significance:** Bulangshan Township is the largest area of settlement of the Bulang people in China (about 64% of the residents). Among its tea names Jieliang is hardly noticeable: its mark is known only from a line of the provincial list.

**3. Botanical Description and Raw Material:**

* **Variety / Cultivar:** Not named for Jieliang. Of the old gardens of Bulangshan as a whole, descriptions say that they are planted with pu-erh tea (the large-leaf variety *Camellia sinensis var. assamica*) and its bitter form — “bitter tea” (苦茶, *kǔchá*).
* **Harvest:** Timing is not given in the sources consulted.
* **Harvest standard:** Not given in the sources consulted.
* **Raw material requirements:** Rules of the mark are not found in the sources consulted.

**4. Terroir and Cultivation Features:**

* **Region:** Bulangshan Township in the south of Menghai County, near the state border. One reference description assigns the surroundings of Jieliang, together with Mannan and several other places, to the warmer part of the township, suitable for tropical crops.
* **Growing altitude:** There are no data for Jieliang. The township lies in mid-altitude mountains, mostly at **1000–2200 m**; the average altitude of the township is 1216 m, the highest point 2082 m.
* **Climate:** For Bulangshan Township — an average annual temperature of 18–21 °C and about 1374 mm of precipitation a year; there are no separate data for Jieliang.
* **Soils:** No data in the sources consulted.
* **Area:** There are no data for Jieliang. Cultivated old gardens in the whole township, according to descriptions, total 9505 mu (about 630 ha).

**5. Production Technology:**

The technology fixed by the mark is not described in the sources consulted. If raw pu-erh is made from Jieliang leaf, the general scheme of the class under standard GB/T 22111-2008 is as follows: the fresh leaf is spread out (摊放, *tānfàng*), fixed by heat (杀青, *shāqīng*), rolled (揉捻, *róuniǎn*), the clumps are broken up and the leaf is dried in the sun (日光干燥, *rìguāng gānzào*); the resulting “sun-dried raw tea” ([晒青](https://thetea.app/article/shai-qing)毛茶, *shàiqīng máochá*) is sorted, steamed, pressed and dried. This is a description of the class, not of Jieliang tea.

**6. Organoleptic Characteristics:**

* **Dry leaf appearance:** No descriptions in the sources consulted.
* **Dry leaf aroma:** No descriptions in the sources consulted.
* **Liquor aroma:** No descriptions in the sources consulted.
* **Taste:** No descriptions in the sources consulted.
* **Liquor color:** No descriptions in the sources consulted.
* **Spent leaves (wet leaves):** No descriptions in the sources consulted.

**7. Chemical Composition:**

No data in the sources consulted.

**8. Health Properties:**

There are no verified data on the effects of this particular tea.

**9. Brewing:**

Class practice. The class is not fixed by the mark; for raw pu-erh, the main product of Menghai large-leaf raw material, the usual parameters are water at 95–100 °C, 5–7 g of tea per 100 ml in a gaiwan (盖碗, *gàiwǎn*), a short rinse of 5–10 seconds, a first infusion of 10–15 seconds and many repeated infusions, adding time with each one. Red or white tea from the same leaf is brewed differently.

**10. Storage:**

Class practice. For raw pu-erh — a dry, clean, ventilated place without odors and direct light, paper wrapping or a box; raw pu-erh can be aged for a long time.

**11. Price and Counterfeits:**

Prices are not found in the sources consulted.

* **How to avoid counterfeits:**
    * Check the mark “勐海结良茶” and that the producer works in Menghai County. The mark says nothing either about the class of tea or about the age of the trees.
    * The name “吉良” on the packaging is not the same as the mark “勐海结良茶” until the places are confirmed to be the same.
    * The words “布朗山” or “[古树](https://thetea.app/article/gushu-dashu-taidi-yesheng)” on the wrapper are a claim of the seller, not part of the mark.

**12. Interesting Facts:**

* Jieliang is one of the seven administrative villages of the Bulang township of Bulangshan, but its name does not appear in the descriptions of the mountain's old gardens that were found.
* The same texts confuse the characters in the names of other committees of the township: Meng'ang is 勐昴 in them.
* The mark of Jieliang stands second to last among the Menghai marks of mountains and villages in the provincial list — between Banpen and Bada Manmai.

**13. Comparison with Neighboring Teas:**

* **Bulangshan (布朗山):** The mountain massif and the township to which Jieliang belongs; the corpus article describes the general “powerful” character of Bulang pu-erh.
* **Lao Banzhang ([老班章](https://thetea.app/article/laobanzhang)):** The best-known village of the same township.
* **Lao Man'e ([老曼峨](https://thetea.app/article/lao-man-e)):** A Bulang village of Bulangshan, the benchmark of the bitter line — the closest reference point in the corpus for the “bitter tea” of the township.

**In Conclusion:**

*Měnghǎi Jiéliáng chá* is a mark behind which almost nothing can be seen. It is known that Jieliang is an administrative village of the Bulang township of Bulangshan and that its name is entered in the provincial list of geographical marks of Menghai County. Tea descriptions of the mountain speak of the similar-sounding committee of Jiliang, but the identity is not proven; the sources found give neither the class, nor the appearance, nor the taste of the tea. This article is an honest entry on the place, worth supplementing when the rules of the mark or descriptions of the tea itself appear.