Zhengshan Tang (Lapsang Tea House)

Zhengshan Tang traces its roots to Tongmu Village in Xingcun Town, Wuyishan, where the Jiang family settled in the late Song dynasty and has made tea for generations; Jiang Yuanxun is the 24th-generation bearer of the Lapsang souchong craft and founded the firm behind the Zhengshan Tang name.

Zhengshan Tang is renowned for Lapsang souchong; its "Yuanzheng" brand earned German BCS, Japanese JAS and American NOP organic certification as early as 1998, among Fujian's first and largest organic black-tea export bases. In 2005, under Jiang Yuanxun, it created Jin Jun Mei from pure tea buds, opening a new era for premium Chinese black tea.

Lapsang souchong uses high-altitude leaves from Tongmu Pass, traditionally smoke-cured over pinewood for a red liquor with distinctive longan-and-pine aroma; Jin Jun Mei extends this craft by using only single buds, yielding golden-black leaves with rich floral, fruity and honey notes.

Zhengshan Tang is a leading Wuyishan black-tea brand, widely recognised for its craft innovation and organic exports; it is not on the MOFCOM China Time-honoured Brand list, and is recorded here as a tea-house lineage and brand.