More than 6,000 years ago, ancestors in Luo Tian, Yuyao, Zhejiang Province began to plant tea trees. Luo Tian is the earliest place where tea trees were planted artificially in China.

Mengding Mountain in Ya 'an City, Sichuan Province is the earliest place where tea was planted artificially in the history of China. During the Western Han Dynasty more than two thousand years ago, Wu Lizhen, the founder of Mengding Mountain Tea, began to domesticate and plant wild tea trees in Mengding Mountain, and began the history of artificial tea making.