Kutengera mbiri yolembedwa, Mengding Mountain ndi malo oyamba m'mbiri yaku China komwe kuli zolembedwa zatiyi yokumbakubzala.Kuchokera m'mabuku akale kwambiri a tiyi padziko lapansi, "Tong Yue" ya Wang Bao komanso nthano ya Wu Lizhen yobzala mitengo ya tiyi ku Mengshan, zitha kutsimikiziridwa kuti phiri la Mengding ku Sichuan ndi komwe kumachokera kubzala tiyi ndi kupanga tiyi.Tiyi wobiriwira anachokera ku Badi (tsopano kumpoto kwa Sichuan ndi kum'mwera kwa Shaanxi).Malinga ndi zolemba za "Huayang Guozhi-Bazhi", pamene Zhou Wuwang adagonjetsa Zhou, anthu a Ba adapereka tiyi kwa asilikali a Zhou Wuwang."Huayang Guozhi" ndi kalata ya mbiri yakale, ndipo zitha kutsimikiziridwa kuti pasanathe nthawi ya Western Zhou Dynasty, anthu a Ba kumpoto kwa Sichuan (Tiyi Asanu ndi awiri a Buddha) adayamba kulima tiyi m'mundamo.

Tiyi wobiriwira ndi imodzi mwa tiyi zazikulu ku China.

Tiyi wobiriwira amapangidwa kuchokera ku masamba atsopano kapena masamba a mtengo wa tiyi, popandakuwira, kudzera mu njira monga kukonza, kuumba, ndi kuyanika.Imasunga zinthu zachilengedwe zamasamba atsopano ndipo imakhala ndi tiyi polyphenols, makatekini, chlorophyll, caffeine, amino acid, Mavitamini ndi zakudya zina.Mtundu wobiriwira ndi msuzi wa tiyi zimasunga mawonekedwe obiriwira a masamba atsopano a tiyi, chifukwa chake amatchedwa.

Kumwa tiyi wobiriwira nthawi zonse kungathandize kupewa khansa, kuchepetsa mafuta ndi kuonda, komanso kuchepetsa kuwonongeka kwa chikonga kwa osuta.

China imapangatiyi wobiriwiram'malo osiyanasiyana, kuphatikiza Henan, Guizhou, Jiangxi, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Sichuan, Shaanxi, Hunan, Hubei, Guangxi, ndi Fujian.