OLAC Record oai:humlab.lu.se:hdl:10050/00-0000-0000-0003-E936-B

Metadata
Title:		míaŋ
		Camellia sinensis
Contributor:		Marie Widén
		Lennart Engstrand
		Björn Widén
		Kàm Ràw
Coverage:		Thailand
Date:		2001-03-04
Description:		Scientific Name: Camellia sinensis Common Name: tea plant Arkivcentrum Syd ID: 2067768
		Khmu Name: míaŋ [Lao loan]
		Description: Traditionally, the Kammu do not drink tea but chew fermented tea leaves. Tea plants are 4–5 m tall and should grow in cool places, where the sun does not shine, so that it is wet all the time. The plants may be 40–70 years old before they are cut down and replaced with new plants. In northern Laos and Thailand, men, women and child¬ren chew fermented tea and smoke tobacco after each meal. For example, when people have helpers for some work, they must give them tobacco and fermented tea. Fermented tea is produced in Luang Namtha Pro¬vince in Laos, and in the Chiang Mai area in Thailand. The Yùan villages of Kmpɔ̀ɔl, Mòŋ Kɨ̀r, Rmɔ̀ɔn and Tláŋ in the southern part of Luang Namtha Province grow tea in garden plots a few kilometres from the villages. They make fermented tea not only for their own use but to sell to other villages as well. The owner of the tea plant picks the leaves three times a year. They should not be too hard or too soft. The leaves are picked and two handfuls are tied together to form a bundle (hrnɔ̀ɔm). When the pickers have many bundles they bring them home to the common-house. There they make a fire and steam the leaves in a rice-steamer (hnʔòh or réey) on a cooking pot. It is very important that the water in the pot boils vigorously, so that the leaves become tho-roughly steamed; otherwise they become brown and taste bad. After the steaming, the leaves are put on a winnowing fan (hmpíar) to cool down, and then they are put into a bamboo tube (tóŋ míaŋ) which is closed with a lump of clay (trnàk míaŋ). It is kept for a couple of months to let it ferment, sometimes buried in the ground, and then it is ready to be chewed.
		Latitude (deg): 19.9162167 Longitude (deg): 99.0495833 Altitude (m): 1400
		Note: "Id" refers to the original ID of the dried plant specimen
Format:		image/jpeg
Identifier:		oai:humlab.lu.se:hdl:10050/00-0000-0000-0003-E936-B
Identifier (URI):		https://corpora.humlab.lu.se/ds/asv?openpath=MPI256310%23
Type:		image
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DateStamp:		2019-03-27
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Citation:		Marie Widén; Lennart Engstrand; Björn Widén; Kàm Ràw. 2001-03-04. Lund University Humanities Lab corpusserver.