China has a long history of drinking tea, and the exact time cannot be verified, but there is a general statement about the time. We can also find evidence that the habit of drinking tea in many parts of the world was handed down from China.
Therefore, many people think that drinking tea was initiated by China people, and the habit of drinking and growing tea in other parts of the world was passed down directly or indirectly from China.
However, some people can find evidence that the habit of drinking tea was invented not only in China, but also in other parts of the world, such as India and Africa. 1823, a major of the British invading army discovered wild tea trees in India, so some people began to believe that tea originated in India, at least in India.
Of course, there are records of wild tea trees in China, all of which are concentrated in the southwest, and some areas in Gansu and Hunan are also recorded. Tea tree is a very old dicotyledonous plant, which is closely related to people's lives.
There are different opinions on the origin of tea drinking in China: tracing back to the origin of tea drinking in China, some think it originated in ancient times, others think it originated in Zhou, Qin, Han, Three Kingdoms, Southern and Northern Dynasties and Tang Dynasty. The main reason for the different opinions is that there was no word "tea" before the Tang Dynasty, only the word "tea" was recorded;
It was not until Lu Yu, the author of the Book of Tea, reduced the word "tea" by one painting and wrote it as "tea" that tea originated in the Tang Dynasty. Others are said to have originated in Shennong and Qin and Han Dynasties.
Extended data:
The invention of tea:
1, Sacrifice said: This statement holds that tea and other plants were first used as sacrifices. Later, some people found that it was harmless to eat, so it was "eaten by sacrifices, but eaten by vegetables, but used as medicine" and eventually became a drink.
2. Pharmacology: This view holds that tea "originally entered human society as a medicine." "Shennong Hundred Herbs Classic" wrote: "Shennong tasted a hundred herbs, and when he encountered seventy-two poisons every day, he was relieved by tea."
3. Eating: "The ancients drank water like grass" and "the people put food first". Eating first conforms to the evolutionary law of human society.
4. Synchronous said: "At first, tea may be used as chewing food or baking food, and it is gradually used as medicine." The comparison and accumulation of these ways will eventually develop into "drinking tea", which is the best way.
Baidu encyclopedia-tea