China is the original habitat of chinese tea (including,green tea, wu long tea (oolong tea),Puer tea,..as the chinese tea tree most early appears in
China north west Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, Xishuangbanna area. But some scholar believe that
the tea tree original habitat in India, the reason is India has the wild tea tree, but
China does not have any. But they did not know China "Is elegant" in 200 B.C. about center mentioned
has the wild big tea tree, moreover also has "the tea tree king".
Shen Nong Book on Chinese
medicine record" is our country first pharmacy monograph, from Warring
States when writes, book in circulation in Western Han Dynasty year. This
book by the fable form, has collected since the ancient times, the working
people long-term accumulation medicine knowledge, including such record:
"Shen Nong tastes , the date meets 72 poisons, must kiss but solves it".
According to textual research: Here bitter edible plant was refers to the
ancient times the chinese tea, the general idea is said that, far in the antiquity
time, in fable Shen Nongshi, personally has tasted , in order to
discovered had favor the human survival the plant, unexpectedly within one
day many times was poisoned. But as a result of takes the tea to be saved.
This although is a fable, has the obvious exaggerating ingredient, but
also may know, the humanity uses the tea, possibly is from for medicinal
purposes starts. According to the inspection, "the tea" the character most
early appears in "Hundred Masters Tablets" and "Bosom Sunshine Tablet"
center, the time probably in the Tang Dynasty intermediate stage, A.D. 806
years to the A.D. 820 years around, Before this, "the tea" is "the bitter
edible plant" expresses with the equivocal character. "The tea" the
character basic significance is "the sow thistle", the antiquity time
people also lack to the tea knew, merely acts according to its flavor,
belongs to it a sow thistle kind, is definitely may understand, when the
people realized when to it with common sow thistle's difference and its
special function, alone expressed its new character also produced.
The chinese tea and the grain, hold the equally important position. But,
"as a result of reason and so on climate, the locality certainly does not
produce the tea, the government authorities in order to strengthen the
control national minority the strength, adopts to the tea supplies limits
the quantity, the direct apportionment means, side 
achieved in order to "to the tea governs" goal. At
the same time, the government authorities not only the control tea supply,
Yu also, by the few teas, exchanges the most warhorses, the brotherly
nationality brings the serious burden for, this is in the history "the tea
horse trades". The tea took one kind of drink, starts from the Tang
Dynasty, to spread our country northwest each national minority area,
becomes the local lives of the people the essential item, "on first does
not have the tea to stagnate, on third does not have the tea to get sick".
The tea from invents to the use, has experienced phase of long history, it
therefore deeply people's welcome, besides may drink as the drink by the
people with, but also because it to the person physical ability the
certain health care and the treatment function. Three countries times,
Zhuge Liang leads troops to fight up and down the country. Once, had urged
the sea the soldier to Yunnan, the soldier because is unaccustomed to the
climate, the multi- evils ophthalmopathy, Zhu Zhuliang orders the soldier
to pick the tea to drink, soon, cured the ophthalmopathy. Until now, the
local people also were called as the tea tree "Kong Mingshu", revered
Zhuge Liang was "the tea ancestor".
China is tea tree's original
habitat. However, China on the tea industry to humanity's contribution,
mainly lay in had most early discovered tea this kind of plant, has first
used tea this kind of plant, and developed it forms for our country and
Eastern and even the entire world one kind of bright unique tea culture.
If our country historical records carry, in unknown drinks in front of the
tea, "ancient summer then the potable water, the winter drinks soup",
permanently relieves thirst by the lukewarm water unboiled water. As drank
take the tea changes the people to drink the unboiled water the vulgar
customs, compared the earth to raise people's health standard. As for the
tea area Europe and America, was considered "without doubt is the East
grants western the best gift", "Europe if does not have the tea and the
coffee spreading to of, drinks wine to be surely more excessive", "the tea
is unable for humanity's advantage to estimate", "I believe firmly the tea
am one of humanity's savior", "am great consoling" and so on. The various
countries drinks the tea and the tea production and the trade, except area
North Korea, Japan as well as the central Asia, west Asia is around the
Tang Dynasty on from Chinese spreading to, other are many is after 16th
century, since specially the nearly 200 years only then have spread
develop.
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