Tea

The world's three drinks are Coca-Cola, coffee and tea. China is the world's first discovery and use of tea in the country. Through the development of Chinese tea to drink from the medicinal, from wild to cultivated a long process.

Three Kingdoms, the Jin Dynasty period, the culture of tea drinking gradually flourished, to the Tang Dynasty, tea drinking has become a kind of Han people living habits. Lu Yu tea expert (AD 733-804) summed up the tea, tea and tea drinking experience, under construction in the first year of the Tang Dynasty (AD 780) wrote the first of China's tea is the world's first monograph - "Tea. "This is an encyclopedia about the tea things, in three volumes, the volume of tea in terms of origin, characters, names, tea, tea and tea utensils and tea type of method; volume listed tea, tea Apparatus; volumes about Pengcha under way all over the merits of water and tea customs.

Many varieties of Chinese tea, large varieties of green tea, black tea, oolong tea, jasmine tea, white tea and pressed, collectively referred to six tea. Among each category, was divided into many different characteristics of tea varieties.