Ma ka hoʻoholo ʻana mai ka moʻolelo i kākau ʻia, ʻo Mengding Mountain ka wahi mua loa o ka mōʻaukala Kina kahi i kākau ʻia ai nā moʻolelokī hana ʻiakanu ʻana.Mai nā moʻolelo mua loa o ka ti i ka honua, ʻo Wang Bao "Tong Yue" a me Wu Lizhen ka moʻolelo o ke kanu ʻana i nā kumulāʻau kī ma Mengshan, hiki ke hōʻoia ʻia ʻo Mengding Mountain ma Sichuan ke kumu o ke kanu kī a me ka hana kī.Ua hoʻokumu ʻia ke kī ʻōmaʻomaʻo ma Badi (i kēia manawa ʻo Sichuan a me ka hema ʻo Shaanxi).Wahi a nā moʻolelo o "Huayang Guozhi-Bazhi", i ka wā i lanakila ai ka Zhou Wuwang iā Zhou, hāʻawi ka poʻe Ba i ke kī i ka pūʻali o Zhou Wuwang.ʻO "Huayang Guozhi" kahi leka o ka mōʻaukala, a hiki ke hoʻoholo ʻia ʻaʻole ma hope o ka Western Zhou Dynasty, ua hoʻomaka ka poʻe Ba ma ka ʻākau ʻo Sichuan (Seven Buddha tribute tea) e mahi i ka ti i loko o ka māla.

ʻO ke kī ʻōmaʻomaʻo kekahi o nā kī nui ma Kina.

Hana ʻia ke kī ʻōmaʻomaʻo mai nā lau hou a i ʻole nā ​​ʻōpuʻu o ke kumulāʻau kī, me ka ʻolefermentation, ma o nā kaʻina hana e like me ka hoʻopaʻa ʻana, ka hana ʻana, a me ka maloʻo.Hoʻopaʻa ia i nā mea kūlohelohe o nā lau hou a loaʻa i ka tii polyphenols, catechins, chlorophyll, caffeine, amino acids, Vitamins a me nā meaʻai ʻē aʻe.ʻO ka waihoʻoluʻu ʻōmaʻomaʻo a me ka soup kī e mālama i ke ʻano ʻōmaʻomaʻo o nā lau kī hou, no laila ka inoa.

ʻO ka inu ʻana i ke kī ʻōmaʻomaʻo mau hiki ke pale i ka maʻi kanesa, hoʻohaʻahaʻa i ka momona a lilo ke kaumaha, a hoʻemi i ka pōʻino nicotine i ka poʻe puhi paka.

Hoʻohua ʻo Kinakī ʻōmaʻomaʻoma nā wahi ākea, me Henan, Guizhou, Jiangxi, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Sichuan, Shaanxi, Hunan, Hubei, Guangxi, a me Fujian.