Tradition has it that during the Dao-guang reign period of the Qing dynasty, a man named Lin Fengchi from the earliest village in the Luku area went to mainland China to take the imperial examinations. Returning home after having passed the provincial level exams, along the way he brought back 36 seedlings of Chinghsin oolong tea plants from Mt. Wuyi in Fujian Province, and 12 were successfully transplanted on Mt.
相傳，清道光年間，鹿谷鄉初鄉村的林鳳池先生到大陸應試，得中舉人，衣錦返鄉，順道自福建武夷山攜回青心烏龍茶苗三十六株，其中十二株由凍頂山的林三顯栽植成功，從此繁殖成園。