Herbal tea has a long history. In 306 AD, Ge Hongnan, a Taoist priest of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, came to Lingnan. Because boils were prevalent at that time, he was able to carefully study various drugs for febrile diseases in Lingnan. Ge Hong's medical monographs and later doctors of Lingnan School summed up the rich experience of working people in preventing and treating diseases for a long time, and formed herbal tea with profound Lingnan culture. Its formula and terminology were passed down from generation to generation. Historical allusions and folklore about herbal tea are widely circulated in Lingnan and overseas. For hundreds of years, the herbal tea shops in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao have formed a unique Lingnan cultural landscape in China. The unique and profound cultural connotation of herbal tea makes it have a lasting expansion, which is an incomparable advantage for any beverage in the world.
The history of herbal tea can be traced back to the Shang Dynasty, the beginning of China's letter history. The word soup comes from water. "Cloud" means "diffusion" and "dispersion". "Water" and "cloud" together mean "water in which solid components are dissolved" and "solution". (noun) decoction; Soup, the most commonly used dosage form of traditional Chinese medicine, was called decoction in ancient times, but now it is called decoction, and it is called decoction in folk; Herbal tea is not tea, but a medicinal soup made of Chinese herbal medicines; After the death of Mao in Shang Dynasty, his descendants were honored as "soup" in Shang Dynasty because of the medicinal soup made by Chinese herbal medicines to commemorate his great achievements.
Before the war between Tang Zheng and Tang Shi, Shang Tang adjusted and improved the formula of Beiherbal tea, the pioneer of herbal tea, so that the monarch and his ministers kept upright and were more suitable for the Central Plains war. After the establishment of Shang Dynasty, Shang Tang adjusted and improved the southern herbal tea and health tea, and the monarch and ministers remained unchanged. Later, Shang Tang repeatedly improved and established the forbidden prescription of Jiuding Decoction. Evidence shows that Lu You's poems in Song Dynasty are called; Tracing the history of herbal tea: it originated from Shennong tasting a hundred herbs, and Shennong I and Yan Di II both lived in Baoji (North Herbal Tea Party); And radiated to the two lakes (the prescription of southern herbal tea/the popularity of ancient Hunan and Hubei love is even worse than that of Lingnan); Sinan soil in Yan Di, Zhu Rong, this flower () is the owner of Fangqun (Southern Herbal Tea Prescription); It also originated from Ye (Southern Herbal Tea) where Emperor Yan of Shennong VIII lived in Yanling County, Hunan Province. Originated from health tea, Yanhuang health prescription is also; On the eve of the battle of Zhuolu, Emperor Yan cooperated with the Yellow Emperor to complete their first herbal tea prescription-tea prescription; Its unilateral (monarch) dates back to Fuxi; This is the historical heritage and truth that China people should know.