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By exploring the historical and cultural data of tea cultivation in Shandong and Mount Tai since the Tang and Song Dynasties, this paper speculates that the Jin Dynasty may be the earliest period of tea cultivation in Shandong and Mount Tai, and maintains that the tea recorded in most of the historical documents should be Mount Tai plant substitute tea. The introduction and cultivation of tea trees in Mount Tai was clearly recorded during the Republic of China. After the successful introduction of south tea, Mount Tai tea in the 1990s has achieved rapid development, forming a well-known regional brand. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Counting the size of farming area with Chinese area unit mu for grain was an ancient taxation system measurement, and mu was calculated with the standard of bu. However, in the mountainous areas of eastern and northern Fujian, with numerous mountains and fragmentized land, there existed a set of folk land measurement from the Ming and Qing dynasties to the Republic of China, namely counting seedlings as mu, either by "he", or by "ba", or by "dou" (the counting unit in agriculture) as a unit of measurement, and finally converted into mu for taxation. The agricultural counting unit had rigorous logic while seeming intricate. Based on the folk deeds in the Zhouning Museum in Fujian Province, this paper takes the unit ba as a clue to reconstruct this method of fields and lands measuring with a unified standard. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]