According to various records, most books set the discovery time of tea as 2737-2697 BC, and its history can be traced back to the Three Emperors and Five Emperors.
In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Hua Tuo recorded it in the Book of Food, which explained the medicinal value of tea. Today's "Chaling" in Hunan is named to commemorate the discovery of tea in the Western Han Dynasty. In the Wei Dynasty of the Three Kingdoms, Guangya recorded the method of making and drinking cake tea for the first time. Tea began to appear in the form of matter and penetrated into other humanities fields, which had an impact on the enlightenment of tea culture.
The strong national strength and unprecedented openness of the people in the Tang Dynasty provided a good background for the formation of tea culture. The Tang Dynasty had a vast territory and attached importance to foreign exchanges. Chang 'an was the political and cultural center at that time, and China tea culture was formed in this climate.
The symbol of the formation of tea culture in Tang Dynasty, now called Cha Sheng, is a Tea Classic compiled by Lu Yu with painstaking efforts. It is a comprehensive treatise summarizing the history, origin, present situation, production technology and principle of tea art and tea ceremony before and after the Tang Dynasty. It not only describes the natural science of tea in great detail, but also focuses on tea culture. ?
In the Song Dynasty, due to the establishment of professional tea tasting societies, the sweat wiping culture reached a prosperous level. Drinking tea has become a noble etiquette in the Song Dynasty. Tea in the Song Dynasty lost its original cultural level in the Tang Dynasty because of its connection with officialdom. The prevalence of tea drinking in Song Dynasty made tea culture have a broader level in society.
By the Ming and Qing Dynasties, tea culture had spread to all kinds of people.
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The customs of growing, making and drinking tea, which are widely circulated in the world today, are all from China. It is speculated that China tea has spread abroad for more than 2000 years.
Around the 5th century, during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, China's tea began to be exported to neighboring countries in Southeast Asia and other parts of Asia. In 805 and 806, the most sincere Japanese Zen master came to China to study abroad, and brought back tea seeds for trial planting when he returned home. In Song Dynasty, Zen master Rong introduced tea seed cultivation from China. Japanese tea industry inherited the principle of steaming green in ancient China and produced green tea with unique flavor.
/kloc-In the 20th century, when Mongolian caravans came to China to engage in trade, they brought China's brick tea from China to Central Asia via Siberia. /kloc-At the beginning of the 5th century, Portuguese merchant ships came to China for trade, and tea trade with the West began to appear. The Dutch brought tea to western Europe around 16 10, and then to eastern Europe after 1650, and then to Russia, France and other countries.
1684 Indonesian tea seeds were introduced to China for trial planting, and then introduced to China, Japanese tea seeds and Assam seeds for trial planting. After a bumpy ride, it was not until 19 th century that obvious results began to be achieved.
1780, the British East India Company introduced tea seeds to China and planted them in hard India. Then drinking black tea became popular in Britain in the early18th century, and even became an elegant expression. Tea has become a high-end gift of British upper class. From 65438 to 0880, China exported1450,000 tons of tea to Britain, accounting for 60% to 70% of China's tea exports.
1833 introduced tea seeds from China for trial planting in Russian, 1848 introduced tea seeds from China for planting in Black Coast. 1893, a tea teacher Liu from China was hired, and a group of skilled workers went to Georgia to teach tea planting and tea making technology. ?
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