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Tanyang

A village in Fu’an, northern Fujian, and the origin of Tanyang Gongfu — one of the three historic Fujian gongfu black teas and a significant export tea in the late nineteenth century.

坦洋China200–800 metres

History on this page: TeaHQ synthesis

TeaHQ's own reading of well-attested general knowledge, with no single source behind it.

This district’s description dates something — a founding, a first planting, a period of expansion. The label above says on what basis, and it applies to the historical statements rather than to the elevation, climate or soil claims below, which carry their own confidence separately.

Elevation

Recorded at 200–800 metres.

How firm this is: Inferred from general knowledge of the district rather than measured or taken from a source that states it.

When it is picked

A spring bud-and-leaf pick for the gongfu black tea the village is known for, with later pickings going to lower grades. Northern Fujian's black-tea districts pick to a finer standard than the oolong country a short distance south, because a black tea's value here sits in the tip content.

How firm this is: Inferred from general knowledge of the district rather than measured or taken from a source that states it.

How the name is written

Also transliterated as tanyang, tan yang. Romanisations of a district name vary by system and by vendor, and a packet spelling one way is not describing a different place.

Teas this region is known for

  • Tanyang Gongfu — Honeyed and gentle, with a distinctive dried-longan sweetness. Gongfu here means the skill of the making rather than the brewing style, and the twisted leaf is the visible evidence of it.

Other teas recorded from here

Other growing regions in China

The neighbouring districts are the useful comparison: they share a country, a grading convention and often a cultivar, so what differs between them is closer to terroir than anything a cross-border comparison can isolate.

Sources

  • TeaHQ editorial synthesis — TeaHQ

This page is TeaHQ’s own synthesis throughout. No external document stands behind the elevation band, the climate note or the character described above, which is why each carries its confidence in the open.

How TeaHQ handles sources

Written comparisons

Where TeaHQ has set this region against something it is routinely confused with, and argued the differences out in full.

  • Tanyang vs Qimen — Two Chinese black-tea origins that both rose on nineteenth-century export demand and had very different afterlives. Keemun became the backbone of English breakfast blends; Tanyang Gongfu, one of the three historic Fujian gongfu blacks, is barely known outside China.
  • Zhenghe vs Tanyang — Two inland northern Fujian areas making different categories from a shared regional tradition. Zhenghe is a white-tea county with its own Da Bai cultivar; Tanyang is the home of one of the three historic Fujian gongfu black teas.