In the past, many mainland Chinese and Japanese tourists visited Mt. Ali and made their way directly to the main tea-growing areas to buy tea from local tea farmers, but the lack of an official pricing mechanism, standards in packaging, and the diversity of names has definitely eroded people's interest.
過去，有許多大陸客或日本客到阿里山觀光，直接殺到產地去找茶農買茶，就因為沒有公定價格，包裝、名稱又不一，因而買氣不高。