Nujiang
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| Nujiang | |
|---|---|
| 怒江 (Nùjiāng); Salween valley | |
| ActiveCannabis last recorded here in 2024 | |
| Hierarchy | |
| Growing Region | Yunnan |
| Geography | |
| Country | China |
| Province/State | Yunnan |
| Lisu autonomous prefecture | Nujiang |
| Coordinates | 25.85, 98.86 |
| Landscape | |
| Area | 14,600 km² |
| Terrain | The valley of the Nu (upper Salween) and its side valleys in north-western Yunnan, in Lushui City and the counties of Fugong, Gongshan and Lanping; approximately the Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture; ground above 4,000 m and bare ground are left out |
| Growing history | |
| Dated news reports | 2024 |
| Documentation | |
| Appellations | 0 |
| Accessions | 0 |
| Conservation | |
| Populations | none documented yet |
Nujiang is a cannabis growing area in north-western Yunnan, China, drawn on the Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture, in the valley of the Nu (怒江), the upper Salween. It is part of the Yunnan growing region. In 1911 Frank Kingdon Ward found barley, maize and hemp grown at Saung-ta, in the dry stretch of the valley,[1]: 93 and the people he calls Lutzu, the Nu,[2]: vol. 2, p. 334 wove their clothes of hemp.[1]: 77–78 In 2015 border police at Gudeng cleared about 1,200 wild plants from a hillside,[3] and in 2024 a court of Fugong County sentenced a man who had picked wild cannabis leaves in the county's mountains.[4]
Fields and cloth in the 1910s
Kingdon Ward travelled up the Salween in 1911, from Cho-la through what he calls the Lutzu country towards Men-kong.[1]: 82–93 The Lutzu, he wrote, were not traders, having everything they needed, "hemp for their clothes which are woven by the women during the winter", tobacco, maize, wheat, buckwheat and fruit.[1]: 77 The men wore short breeches and a shirt of white hemp cloth trimmed with light blue; the women often added a hempen cloak to a long garment of blue cotton, and a hempen bag was slung over the shoulder.[1]: 78 In a house where he halted on the way down to Cho-la, the girls sat on the floor making string by twisting hemp fibre, which they carried in bobbins in their bags.[1]: 82 At Saung-ta, a village of about 25 houses on the river bank in the dry part of the valley, the people wove hemp, tilled the fields and fished: "Barley, maize, and hemp are grown, besides pomegranates and prickly pears."[1]: 92–93
On a later journey, begun in February 1913, he found the women of the Lutzu lower down the river in white hempen skirts with narrow blue stripes, with a hempen towel over the shoulders that served as a blanket at night.[5]: 177 The men wore a long gabardine of white hemp cloth trimmed with pale blue. Lutzu girls carrying loads walked twisting hemp fibre held between the teeth, with a supply of hemp in a cloth bag.[5]: 189–192 A Lisu girl he met at Ma-shih-ta wore a white hempen skirt and a loose jacket of the same cloth.[5]: 200
Tribute of hemp cloth
Rock translates a passage of the Yün-nan Pei-cheng-chih on the Lu-tzu of the Salween. They wore hemp cloth garments and wove red designs into their hemp cloth. When an official was established at Wei-hsi in 1730, the eighth year of the Yongzheng reign, they came in procession to the K'ang-p'u border and submitted, paying a tribute of yellow beeswax, "15 lengths [one length is 10 Chinese feet] of hemp cloth", serow skins and deerskins.[2]: vol. 2, p. 334
Wild stands
On 7 September 2015 officers of the Gudeng border police station, of the Nujiang border detachment, came upon a clump of cannabis growing on an open hillside while visiting the villages of their area. They estimated it at about 1,200 plants, satisfied themselves by enquiry that it was wild and not planted, and cleared it, then searched the places where wild cannabis might grow.[3]
In 2022 a man went several times into the mountains of Fugong County to pick the leaves of wild cannabis, which he dried at home, smoked and sold. Fugong County People's Court sentenced him to five years for selling drugs, and in 2024 the Yunnan High People's Court published the case among its typical drug cases.[4]
Appellations
No appellation pages exist for this growing area yet.
Accessions
No accessions documented yet.
Recent news
| Article | Date | Category | Locality | Plants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| News:2024-06-26/Enforcement/fugong-county-court-sentences-a-man-to-five-years-for-repeatedly-selling-wild-picked-cannabis-leaves-nujiang-y | Enforcement |
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Kingdon Ward, F. (1913). The Land of the Blue Poppy: Travels of a Naturalist in Eastern Tibet. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Rock, Joseph F. (1947). The Ancient Na-khi Kingdom of Southwest China. Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "云南怒江古登边防派出所铲除野生大麻毒品原植物1200余株" [Gudeng border police station, Nujiang, Yunnan, eradicates more than 1,200 wild cannabis plants]. 中国禁毒网 (in 中文). 10 September 2015. Retrieved 3 October 2026.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "云南省高院发布一批打击毒品犯罪典型案例" [Yunnan High People's Court publishes typical cases of drug crime]. 云南日报网 (in 中文). 26 June 2024. Retrieved 21 October 2026.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Kingdon Ward, F. (1923). The Mystery Rivers of Tibet. London: Seeley, Service & Co.