The history of tea: tea character first appeared in the Tang Dynasty

    China is the origin of tea, tea first appeared in the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau in southwest China, Xishuangbanna. However, some scholars believe that the origin of tea in India on the grounds that the Indian wild tea, but China does not. But they do not know about China in 200 BC The "Ya" on the mentioned Wild tea, but also the "King of tea."

                                  "Shen Nong's Herbal Classic"

   "Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing" is the first country pharmaceutical monograph, written from the Warring States period, the years written in Western Han Dynasty. The form book to legend, collected since ancient times, working people accumulated knowledge of drugs, of which this is written: "Shen Nong tasted a hundred herbs, case of 72 day drug, may pro-and solution of." According to research: where Tu is the ancient tea, to the effect that, far away in ancient times, the legendary Shen Nong, personally tasted a hundred herbs for human survival benefit was found from the plant, even a single day on many occasions poisoning. However, taking tea and be saved. Although this is legend, with obvious exaggeration ingredients, but also from that of human use of tea, may be from the medicinal began.

According to investigation, "tea" the word first appeared in the "100 Sound Master monument" and "Huai Hui monument", the time around the mid Tang Dynasty, AD 806 to AD 820 years after this before, "tea" is more word meaning "Tu" expressed.

   "Tea," the basic meaning of the word "bitter herbs" ancient times people lack knowledge of tea, only according to its taste, attributed it to a class of bitter herbs, is entirely understandable, when people realize it and the general suffering the difference between food and its special feature, that it alone also produced a new word.

    Tea and food, the location is just as important. However, "due to climate and other reasons, not the local tea, official control of ethnic minorities in order to enhance the power to limit the supply of tea, direct distribution approach, in order to achieve the" tea Frontier "purposes. At the same time the rulers not only control the supply of tea, Yu and, to a small amount of tea, the exchange of most of the horses, to bring a heavy burden brothers, this is the history of the "tea-horse trade."

               Tea called "Ming Tree", the wise revered as "grandfather of tea"
   Tea as a beverage, from the Tang Dynasty began, spread to all ethnic minority areas in Northwest China has become a necessity for the local people's lives, "day without tea is lag, three days without tea is disease." From the invention to the use of tea has had a long history, it was welcomed by the people the reason why, in addition to the people as a beverage to be consumed, but also because it can play a human health and the treatment effect. Three Kingdoms period, Zhuge Liang soldier Civil war. A, Bing Zhi Li Hai in Yunnan, the soldiers because of lack of acclimatization, and more eye damage, Zhu Zhu Liang ordered his soldiers to boil water to drink tea, and soon, the eye healed. Until now, local people Hai Ba tea called "Ming Tree", the wise revered as "grandfather of tea."

    China is the origin of tea. However, China's tea industry on the human contribution is mainly found in tea, the first such plant, the first use of the tea of this plant, and it evolved in our country and the East and the world a brilliant unique tea culture. As contained in our historical records, before tea in the unknown, "the ancients were drinking water in summer and winter is Decoction and" Hang in Hot water unboiled water quench. Tea to drink is to change people's bad habit of drinking unboiled water, greatly improved people's health. As for the tea around in Europe and the United States, was that "given the East the West is undoubtedly the best gift", "Europe without the introduction of tea and coffee drinking will be more excessive," "tea, the benefits to mankind can not estimate," "I convinced that tea is one of humanity's Savior, "" is a great comfort items "and so on. Tea and tea world production and trade, in addition to North Korea, Japan and Central Asia, West Asia before and after the Tang Dynasty who imported from China, the other mostly after the 16th century, especially in the past 200 years passed before the development of up.