没有桃子的桃子寨The Village Without Peaches

相传很久以前，这里曾有一寨人居住，因周围桃树繁茂，取名桃子寨。后来寨子消散于历史尘烟，茶地归于荒芜，被国家划为国有林。前人种下的古茶树却一直在自然生长，历经百年，长成直插云霄的高杆古树。Legend tells of a village where peach trees once flourished — Taozizhai, the Peach Village. When the village faded into history, the land returned to wilderness and became state forest. Yet the ancient tea trees planted by those forgotten hands continued to grow, century after century, reaching skyward as towering tall-pole ancient trees.

如今，桃子寨的茶地由曼庄村委会下辖的新曼拱和小曼竜两个寨子、仅十余户茶农传承管理。他们是爷爷辈进山打猎时偶然发现这片古茶园的，如今已是第三代。Today, tea gardens are tended by just over a dozen families from Xinmangong and Xiaomanlong villages — the third generation since their grandfathers first discovered these groves while hunting in the mountains.