Chibi (Red Cliff)
Chì Bì · 赤壁
Hubei · China
Chibi ("Red Cliff") is a county-level city in southern Hubei, the historical centre of Hubei's heicha production. In 1736 the merchant Lei Zhongwan opened the first Chibi heicha factory at Yangloudong; the result, a coarse-leaf brick tea called Laoqingzhuang, became part of the bulk export trade through the Hankou tea market that supplied Mongolia, Russia, and the New World — at one point in the late 1800s, 60% of Chinese tea exported left through Hankou.
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Latitude and longitude: 29.72, 113.9