The origin of tea

"When China began to drink tea, all made special, today. CD can be described in general began in the Han, while popular in the Tang Dynasty. Tang before tea, Lu Yu" Tea Classic "the next volume of" Six of tea drinking, "almost as a word , said: "tea to drink, motivated by Shen Nong, heard in Luzhou Gong, Qi Youyan baby, there is Yang Xiong Han, Sima Xiangru, Wu Wei Yao, Liu Kun Jin a, Chang Tsai, far Zuna, Xie An, Zuo Si of believers, are drinking Yan. "But the number of non-historical facts. Vertical is historical, non-additive representations, and also difficult to clear." Tea "goes: Shen Nong" food by, "" Tea Tea Jiufu, powerful Yue Chi "(Liu Yuan, a long" history of tea, "Volume I). Lu Yu, "tea" that the tea from the Shennong However, "eat by" pseudo-book, well known, is far less. "Ya," a "Bitter Tea Ware" the sentence, the world of "Ya" for the Duke when the works absurd thought that drinking from Duke before, I do not know "ELEGANCE" not for the Duke of Zhou. less than the start of the permit for the tea.
"Spring and Autumn Annals, under miscellaneous articles within the" so-called "phase Qi Yan, clothing and 10 liters of cloth, food, fresh off millet, five eggs, Lactuca sativa only" that the tea (or tea) began in Spring and Autumn Period. However, "Spring and Autumn Annals," is not Qi Yan Ying's simply untenable. Wei Ting and 10000 series of "Kun Xue Ji Wen set card" 大 under the cloud: "(Sophora japonica by) this the" Spring and Autumn Annals miscellaneous articles within the next "three to five-Yi Mao Lactuca sativa, test," Yu Lan "vol 800 67 cited for tea, something in the tea ... loading ... "while making tea, natural tea made both, Kong Fei Ming drink tea. Therefore, do not appear in the tea drink by. Shi Youyi Poetry "Who bitter tea," the evidence for the tea, I do not know this tea is the bitter herbs and Tu, non-"Tu Grief" tea, not to confuse one. This Spring and Autumn tea may fear no wind, so "Zhou days Authoritative kill first" for the king who made the six pulp drink, one said, water and slurry on the 2nd, third is sweet wine, Si Yue cool, 5 say doctors, Liu Yue unitary. Not see the tea.
Since the Han Dynasty, tea drinking, or records, time to time, the three ministers when drinking wine every Sun Hao Wu, was promoted to limit the rate of seven, Wei Yao, but two liters, or cut, or give tea tea to when the wine ("The Three Kingdoms * Yao-Wu Wei Chuan "), to tea and tea time, fear has been used to entertain guests, or, during the banquet, why have tea? Jinzhang Hua Chang Wei" really drink tea, very little sleep "(Zhang "Natural History"), is the style of Jin have tea, so tea of tea, the long, Pei Han Song "tea as" the so-called: "tea from the Eastern Jin Dynasty, flourished in the eras (Song)." solid error . "In Luoyang," that tea drinking began between the Southern Emperor Wu-day monitoring, particularly error. The so-called tea-drinking style, began in the Han may be, is not popular in Han, because Northern and Southern Dynasties, the wind has not yet universal, what of the Han, Wei, Guan The "Tea History Miscellany," cited two anecdotes are as follows:
King of Qi Wei Xiao first joined, do not eat lamb cake pulp, fresh Yugeng regular meals, to drink tea juice, Capital Scholars, see Hsiao one drink a bucket, No. Louzhi, after the emperor would eat mutton cheese porridge, emperor of weird question , Japan, the number of sheep is the land animals, aquarium fish is long, likes different and each a treasure. Wei Ming is not in, and dairy as slaves, emperor laughing, drinking as a result of Ming No. casein slaves, the future king of digging into the offer that Peng Xiao said: "Big Tomorrow, I Ching Gu Ju of Tu set meal (ie fish) also There casein slaves. "
Xiao Zhengde clique are surrendering, the Yuan Ming Yi prefer to give set, first ask how much Emily in water Eritrea, Masanori nobody knows its meaning, A Date: Xia Guan was born in Waterside, conduct themselves has not been positive marquis of difficulty, take off laughing.
From the before said Hou Wei Northern Capital Scholars, see King of Qi Xiao tea, cited as weird, No. Louzhi; from the after that particular prefer to give Yang Xiao Zhengde special tea, and then one for less is more strange, a non- homemade goods, at least enough to prove its non-general-use, or, nor Northern Xianbeis-use, time for tea, fear limited to a certain place, certain class lines, is hardly universal people, it can only be that of green tea consumption of start time. The Mood of tea culture began in the Tang Dynasty. Tang people drink tea became an addiction. Su poem: "Poetry in mind weeks suffered Tu, tea drinking out of this world." Are based on the tea as Tu today. Since Don has been chief of tea to clear up and down the well, and ordinary day to drink a few bowls, and indeed rife carry on. (From Huang Xianfan the "interpretation of ancient books", Guangxi Normal University Press, July 2004 p. 1)
Note ①: Western side of the original word is also added, both the right are left unitary. Source: Kang Yongsheng World Culture Communication
Indeed in many parts of the world, the habit of drinking tea from the Chinese past. So many people think that tea is the Chinese people's first, the rest of the world, tea drinking habits, the habit of tea cultivation is directly or indirectly from the Chinese past.
(1) Shen Nong Period: Tang Luyu "Tea": "tea to drink, motivated Shennongshi." In the history of Chinese culture, often to all and agriculture, the origin of things associated with the plant ultimately attributed to Shennong. Return here later on can no longer be pushed up. Because of this, Shen Nong became the god of agriculture.
(2) the Western Zhou Dynasty: Jin Chang Qu "Huayang Kingdom Hashi": "Zhou King Wu, the Teacher of the obtained Ba, tea, honey tribute of all." The record shows that in the Zhou's Validity When Pakistan had tea and other valuable products and King Wu of the tribute. "Hua Yang Guo Zhi", also recorded when the tea has been cultivated there.
(3), Qin and Han Dynasty: Western Han Dynasty. Wang Bao, "about children": "Tu to do with cooking," "Wu Yang to buy Tu," An Examination of the term of the present tea Tu. In recent years, the Western Han Tomb in Changsha Mawangdui found buried with an inventory in " a trunk" and " a trunk," Bamboo paper and wood paper, by checking "" that is "jia" in variant forms, indicating that a fairly wide Hunan tea . We are now drinking a very ancient ancestor with the same drinks, such as Jiang Taigong really is something people emotionally. Can give us a lot of reverie.
Compound in the ancient history of tea in the name of the lot, but "tea" is the name, the "tea" before the word in the Tang Dynasty general writing "Tu" is used. "Tu" meaning the word has more the nature of the word, that tea is one of them. Since the development of tea production, tea's popularity growing, the text of the use of tea increasing frequency, therefore, the non-writers, in order to express the meaning of tea, more clearly and directly, thus, the "Tu" word minus a plan, became what we now see the "tea" word.
"Tea" character from the "Tu" in streamlining the seeds out, originating in the Han Dynasty, ancient Chinese and India, some "Tu" has been less a word, a "tea" the shape of the word. Not only the shape, "tea" in the Western Han Dynasty established the pronunciation. If now Chaling Hunan, is Liu Xin's territory during the Western Han Dynasty, commonly known as "Tu" King City, Changsha, China was one of 13 counties are known as "Tu" Ling County. In the "Geography", the "Tu" Tombs of the "Tu", Reappraisal Note: audio Yi extravagance against, but also audio plus anti-husband. The tangent phonetic, is now, "tea" word pronunciation. From this phenomenon see, "tea", the pronunciation of established earlier than "tea" the establishment of the word shape.
China's vast land and many nationalities, which is also in the language and colorful characters, a variety called the same thing, there are many of the same title written.
Compound in the ancient history, the name of the tea a lot, to the Tang Dynasty, tea, sound, form, meaning and has become unified, and later, because of Lu Yu, "tea" in the widely circulated, "tea" in the shape further established until today.
In ancient Chinese literature, have long records of tea drinking, but with different origins and have different names. China's tea when they reached the early Western Han Dynasty abroad, when Han had sent envoys envoy to Indochina, in addition to the items brought gold, Jinbo, there are tea. John next year when the Southern and Northern Qi Wudi, China's tea exports as silk, porcelain spread to Turkey. Emperor Shunzong of Tang Yongzhen, Japan Saicho Zen Master to return to China tea seeds back to Japan. Later, tea from China continue to pass to the world, many countries have begun to tea, and had the habit of tea drinking.
But some people can find evidence that the habit of tea drinking is not just invented by the Chinese in the world of the other places where they invented the tea, such as India, Africa.
In 1823, a British invasion army major wildlife found in the great Indian tea, which people began to identify the origin of tea in India, at least, also in India. China, of course there are records of Wild tea, are concentrated in the Southwest, records also include Gansu, Hunan individual regions. Tea is a very old-dicots, and is closely related to people's lives.
In China, tea has about the earliest origin of the controversy, there are several claims. Many people believe that in Yunnan, a research scholar at after careful study concluded that in Yunnan Xishuangbanna is the origin of tea. Artificial cultivation of tea began in the earliest written record of the Western Han Mengshan tea. This is in the "Annals of Sichuan" in records.