Jingmai’s misty tea forests have shaped a simple truth over thousands of years: humans and nature thrive together, while Sri Lanka’s rainforests, like a precious gene bank, nurture amazing wildlife and plants.
Though separated by mountains and seas, both places show the Oriental wisdom of living in harmony with nature: ancient tea trees take deep roots in the earth, while clouded leopards and purple frogs protect the rainforests—all living things have their place; harmony lets life last forever.
• Jingmai Mountain in Pu’er, Yunnan
Home to 666.7 hectares (10,000 mu) of millennium-old tea forests, it’s a model of under-forest tea cultivation created by the Blang, Dai, and other ethnic groups. It reflects the ecological wisdom of harmony between humans and nature, and became the first cultural tea landscape World Heritage Site in 2023.
• Central Highlands of Sri Lanka
Central Highlands of Sri Lanka are located in south-central Sri Lanka. This UNESCO World Heritage Site includes three untouched primeval rainforest reserves. With its misty forests, rare species, and magnificent waterfalls, it covers more than 1,000 square kilometers and is known as “Sri Lanka’s Ecological Heart.”
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