Bohea, the Chinese tea originating from Wuyi Mountain, was the major tea product that China exported to Western countries from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. The pronunciation of Bohea comes from the southern Fujian dialect, rather than from its actual place of origin in northern Fujian nor from Mandarin. Restrictions on maritime trade were lifted by the Qing government in 1684, and this resulted in Xiamen becoming one of the four ports open to foreigners. It was the Western merchants who bought tea in Xiamen that drew from the local dialect the name of Bohea to refer in general to teas originating from Wuyi. Therefore, the term Bohea clearly embodies both the Eurasian connection and the role of the market that went into shaping it as a commercial product of historical significance within a world of transnational trade networks. The connotation of Bohea varied according to the specific context. Ever since the late  seventeenth century, Bohea had successively been known as the earliest black tea, as the superior Chinese tea, as the general name of Chinese tea, and finally as the inferior Chinese tea. The transmission of Bohea reflected the changing trends of Chinese tea export on the international market, as well asthe influences from other emerging tea-producing countries. Additionally, the oral evidence acquired through my fieldwork on Wuyi Mountain points to the historical complexities that have gone into shaping this transnational product: The complex interrelationship amongst the related and sometimes overlapping terms Bohea, Lapsang souchong 和 Wuyi black tea—each with slightly different implications and emphases— clearly highlights the reconstruction of locality within the long distance international trade.