During one long stretch, Hong Kong's supply of Pu'er teas from Yunnan was cut off. Meanwhile, as an industrial-commercial society emerged in Hong Kong, the once-thriving tea houses which stocked all varieties of tea closed up shop one after another. Tea in Hong Kong was in a sorry state.
在香港方面，則由於大陸淪陷後，有好一陣子雲南普洱茶的製造呈現中空，使香港的茶葉來源中斷；加以進入工商社會，以前盛極一時、品茶聽戲的傳統老茶樓紛紛歇業，茶道因而中衰。