{"id":1915,"date":"2021-06-11T16:31:48","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T16:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tcmai.uk\/staging\/?page_id=1915"},"modified":"2021-06-11T16:38:04","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T16:38:04","slug":"chinese-teas","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tcmai.uk\/staging\/chinese-teas\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Teas"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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CHINESE TEA HISTORY<\/span><\/h1>

China is the homeland of tea, taking a leading position in planting, producing and drinking of tea. The discovery and use of tea has had a history of over four thousand years in China. Since the earliest times of antiquity when fresh tea leaves were boiled in the water as a soup, to latter dried preserved tea in the Tang (618 \u2013 906) and Song (960 \u2013 1279) dynasties, and when the tea culture experienced revolutionary development, ever since tea has played very important role in the Chinese culture, society, medicine, and people\u2019s everyday life.<\/p>

The origins of tea are lost among history and legends. What can be roughly confirmed is that tea originated in the southwest of China. In Yunnan and some other places there are still wild tea trees over thousand years old. It is said that the first man to discover benefits of tea was Shen Nong, the father of agriculture and herbal medicine in China (2737 B.C. to 2697 B.C) (Picture left).<\/p>

Shen Nong tasted various kinds of plants to find out their features and actions as food or medicine. That is where the famous story of \u201cShen Nong Tasting A Hundred Plants\u201d come from, when one day after a long day of walking and feeling tired, Shen Nong was thirsty so rested under a tree and started a fire to boil water. Suddenly some tree leaves fell into the water hollowware on the fire. He drank the water and discovered that the water was not only sweet but also refreshing too. He found his exhaustion was all gone so he drank all the water. Discovering potential properties of herbs, he started exploring different plants and tasting them. Over seventy medicinal herbs are accredited to Shen Nong ever since, and recorded in the latter book Shennong Bencao Jing (Herbal Classic of Shennong) which says:<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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