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Overview Of China Tea History
For Chinese, tea is not only a drink, but also a spiritual symbol of calm and meditation. After thousands of years, tea has penetrated into every aspect of Chinese life.
China is the first country in the world to discover、utilize and cultivate tea trees, and China is also the suzerain of the world’s tea ceremony, which is beyond doubt. Tea has been discovered and utilized by human beings for four or five thousand years. Today tea has become one of the three most popular non-alcoholic drinks in the world.
The development of tea culture from ancient times to the present
1，The Era of Shennong: 5,000 years ago, people in the era of Shennong used raw tea leaves to boil water for drinking and used the tea leaves as medicine.
2，Western Zhou Dynasty and Eastern Zhou Dynasty: 3000 years ago, tea trees began to be cultivated artificially, and tea was eaten as a dish.
3，Qin Dynasty: Before 2300, tea began to be used as a popular drink、boiled and souped.
4，Han Dynasty: (Western Han Dynasty) Before 2000, tea began to be commercialized, and Chengdu became the earliest tea distribution center in our country.
(Eastern Han Dynasty) Around 1500 years ago, people began to make tea cakes for easy transportation.
5，Tang Dynasty: 1200 years ago, the tea drinking culture prevailed by the influence of the economy and culture of the Tang Dynasty and the advocacy of Lu Yu’s “The classic of Tea”.
6，Song Dynasty: 1000 years ago, the skills of making tea has been improved、people have higher requirements for water quality, then the contrast of tea became a tide/general mood.
7，Yuan Dynasty: 700 years ago, loose tea appeared. Common people mainly use loose tea, and tea cake is mainly used by emperors and nobles. At that time, the method of making tea appeared, that is brewing tea leaves with boiling water simply and directly. It laid the foundation for the rise of loose tea in Ming Dynasty.
8，Ming Dynasty: 600 years ago, Zhu Yuanzhang ( the emperor ) abolished multiple shape compressed tea and changed it to loose tea, and the crafts of yellow tea, dark tea and scented tea were formed gradually.
9， Qing Dynasty: 300 years ago, Chinese tea culture was popular all over the world, outshined others in the world of tea market. At that time, only China exported tea. white tea. The tea technology mainly included baking tea and frying tea, oolong tea, black tea, dark tea, scented tea, green tea and white tea were produced.
10，Modern times: The period from 1846 to 1886 was the prosperous period of Chinese tea. The area of tea gardens continued to expand, and the output of tea increased rapidly, which strongly promoted the development of external trade.
The period from 1886 to 1947 was a period of decline in China’s tea production. Due to political and economic reasons, the competition in the international tea market failed.
The period from 1950 to 1988 was the recovery and development period of China’s tea production. The government supported and attached importance to it, restored the old tea gardens vigorously, established new tea gardens, upgraded new varieties, and implemented scientific methods to cultivate tea. The development of tea economy was gradually stable. The production of tea ranks second in the world.
