Small Space history and the history of tea

      Tea, this means picking the tea leaves when the weather later, refers to tea, it refers to tea cook, cooking, or Jianzhi drinks.

      Su Song in the "sub-Yun Cao auxiliary Send gully try baking a new source of tea," the poem to tea than for beauty: "Spirit Mountain Spirit wet clouds and rain, washing powder evenly over the Hong muscle. Tamagawa son tomorrow to vote, clearing storm damaged Wuling spring. heart good to know that Jade Snow is not the first face new anointing oil. Do not play for verses Jun laugh, never Jiaming like beautiful woman. "

      Tea ancient times. The origin of tea in two different ways: one is in Yunnan, a southwestern mountain range is in the east of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau. Who discovered tea then? Rustic Yan ancient legend, "tasted a hundred herbs, Japanese case of 72 drugs, get the tea and the solution." Another said, "Fresh Herbs Yellow Emperor, have tea and detoxification." "Ya. Explanation of wood," recorded: "jia, bitter Tu." Jinren Guo Pu note said: "The tree is as small as gardenia, Dong-Sheng, Ye can cook soup to drink, to take this call early to Tu, later taken as tea, Tu Shu people were suffering. "clearly describes the characteristics of tea.

      Tea was originally for medicinal, food and ritual use, and then for drinks. Yan Emperor, Huangdi poisoning, have tea and solution of, that is, medicinal tea. Qin and Han Dynasty, "Shen Nong's food through," said: "The Tea Jiufu, Yue-chi is strong." Sanguo Wei Hua Tuo "food on", said: "Tea for a long time think Italian food benefits." Tea is mainly used for food before the Han Dynasty, "Shu Shi "Cloud:" pepper tree, cornel, Shu for tea, one for tea Wu, cook them all together that food. "pickled tea now, playing swing tea, oil tea, roasted tea, tea pot cloud, have been using the ancient practice .

      Tea as a beverage, but two thousand years, the Western Han Shu fashion with tea, there are special tea, there Chashi. Wang Bao Han people 59 years BC in the "children about" a paper record of the child at home to do every day, including "Pengcha do with, Wu Yang (now Pengshan County, Sichuan Province) to buy tea," tea time can be seen has become part of daily life, and and tea has become a commodity, forming a distribution center for tea like Wu Yang.

      Wang Su Wei who defected Southern Qi, do not eat lamb and dairy slurry (ie, milk or goat's milk), eat the fish soup, tea thirsty then. Once he Meet North Weigao Di, began to eat meat, dairy slurry. Weigao Di was very surprised and asked him: "Lamb and Yu Geng than what? Tea and dairy slurry than what?" Wang Su replied: "Sheep are the most land productivity, the length of aquarium fish. Qilu like big sheep Bang, Ju small fish like Zhu. but not in tea, and cheese into slavery. "Xie Pengcheng Wang Tuoba interrupted:" Big does not re-Qi Lu Dabang, and Love Zhu Ju small. Tomorrow we set Zhu Ju of you will, also dairy slurry and tea. "Then people will bring in tea called" casein slaves. "

      Tang has a tea, produced in Anhui Anqing Prefecture Tianzhu Feng. Tang dynasty prime minister ranking positions with a friend granted by the court Shu State (now Shucheng of Anhui Province) to know the state, ranking positions and said to him: "you go to a comfortable state, Tianzhu Feng tea please send a few angle (angle is stored tea) to me . "comfortable one to state that people will quickly Tuoren Dai Tianzhu Feng several pounds of tea to the ranking positions.

      Ranking positions are not available, returned to the friend. The next year, a friend was relieved to know the state Shu State, before leaving, he carefully selected a few corner Tianzhu Feng tea given ranking positions. Ranking positions are pleased to accept, and to the friend said: "This tea can be sobering botulinum." Then he Jiao Puren cooked a pot of tea, then tea poured into a silver bowl full of meat box, close the lid. The next morning, ranking positions with friends opened the box, the meat has turned into water. And they were all serving their extensive knowledge.

      Chinese like to be processed into cakes of tea, Black Tea, wrapped in the middle to play a hole with a rope to string together, easy to carry, this is known as series of tea.

      Southern Tang Court has prohibited the Kyoto Kaifeng Beiyuan to Dong Yuan, the Bank said, "Dong Bei Yuan", good tea, people think that you, saying that this tea is Beiyuan tea. Fujian statehood later (today Jianou) produced by the Phoenix Mountain tea, also known as Beiyuan tea. Taipingxingguo early years of the Dragon Emperor Taizong of Song Zhao Guangyi until the system model, thereby making tea with tea, known as the "Dragon Mission", exclusively for the court to drink, as distinct from the masses unified and drink tea.

      Zhao Zhen Qing Song Renzong the calendar year, Fujian transfer to another system out of a small group Cai Xiang tea, as a tribute. Tea is extremely valuable small groups, often in the tea house on the engraving on the gold cake, 20 more than a pound cake weight, value of silver 2 ��. But tea is not easy to get, Renzong time to the southern suburbs of worship Heaven and Earth, the Central Secretariat and the Privy Council gave all a cake, four hours a cake.

      Southern Song Dynasty, the Japanese monk here especially to China, no less than 100 temples in the study of Chinese Tea culture. Later, the West Wing Monk tea plant species back to Japan to form Japan's tea culture and tea ceremony, Wing West, the Japanese monk called "grandfather of tea." Most countries, "tea" are from the Chinese pronunciation of the word "tea" made of pronunciation changes. English tea, then tea pronunciation te from Xiamen shift in the English slang tea, cha, the Chinese pronunciation and tea breaks closer; Russian is the transliteration of northern China, then tea; Japanese "tea" read the word "appropriate" entirely according to Chinese pronunciation.