Sanban tea, also known as Sancha, is a way of drinking tea when Bai people in Yunnan entertain VIPs, and belongs to the category of tea culture. As early as the Ming Dynasty, three tea, a well-known Bai nationality at home and abroad, became a kind of etiquette for the White House to entertain guests and make friends with his unique "bitter, sweet and memorable" tea ceremony.

20 14, 1 1, "Baisan Tea" was approved by the State Council to be included in the fourth batch of national intangible cultural heritage representative projects.

As early as the Tang Dynasty, Schumann recorded that 1000 years ago, during the Nanzhao period, the Bai people had the habit of drinking tea. When Xu Xiake of the Ming Dynasty came to Dali, he was also moved by this unique custom. In his travel notes, he described it as "tea is fun, the first tea, medium salt tea and the second honey tea". The so-called "drinking tea for pleasure" means taking drinking tea as an artistic activity of appreciation, which is also known as the tea ceremony in later generations.

In the local Bai nationality, drinking three teas has the function of regulating interpersonal relationship and spreading national culture. Whether in the street or at the bow of the park, there are various forms and contents of drinking three teas. Especially in the important occasions of welcoming guests and entertaining guests, it is even more grand and warm.

In "Three Teas", each line is equipped with three to five programs. Dressed in beautiful national costumes, "Jinhua" and "A Peng" (Bai girls collectively referred to as "Jinhua" and boys collectively referred to as "A Peng") performed firewood-chopping dance and advised tea while performing. When the third lane is halfway drunk, those Jinhua and A Peng will warmly invite guests to sing and dance in the middle of the venue, thus pushing the activity to a climax.