Introduction to the Origin of Tea, Origin and History of Tea (Introduction to Chinese Tea)

Tea refers to the fresh leaves of the tea tree as raw materials, after processing technology made of a class of beverages, its cocoa, coffee and the world's top three non-alcoholic drinks within the list, and it's extremely popular, so what is the origin of the tea brief? Here let me take you to see it.

     1:The origin hypothesis

The origin of tea time has not yet been clear, now the schools of thought, controversy is not determined, which, after all, there is a degree of conviction is the Shennong said, said the Shang Zhou, said the Western Han Dynasty, as well as the Three Kingdoms said, of which the "Shennong said" is from the Tang Dynasty's famous tea writings, "Tea Classic", said the Shang Zhou and the tea spoon at the time, and the Western Han Dynasty, said that because of Western Han Dynasty tea drinking culture began to popular, but no matter what the theory is undeniable is tea! originated in China.

     2:Stages of development

Tea has gone through four stages of development, generally speaking is "raw, soup, cooking, drinking", of which raw refers to raw food, that is, the fresh leaves cleaned and chewed directly after taking, or drying chewing to take, at this time is the tea as a cure for the disease, can be eaten raw to remove the fire, but also can be applied externally to stop bleeding.

Waiting for the Shang Zhou, Qin Han period, tea gradually with rice, onion, ginger, garlic and other foods boiled together as soup, this time tea is gradually transformed from medicinal to drinking, but also the originator of the modern mixed cooking and drinking method, waiting for the Western Han Dynasty tea began to be served with water decoction to drink, but due to the fact that this time has not yet appeared in the tea production process, so the consumption of soup, soup porridge based on the Three Kingdoms period of the tea industry, the tea bricks began to drink at this time, wait until the Tang Dynasty! After the emergence of tea art, a variety of brewing methods are endless. After the development process, the tea drinking method has been simplified, instead of tea production methods are more and more mysterious, more and more complex, now there are seven tea processing technology, including green tea processing technology first appeared, when the tea is mainly steamed, burned mainly.

     3:External communication process

Tea was first spread abroad in 805 AD, at this time for the Tang Dynasty, the exchange of overseas monks is more extensive, especially the Japanese monks often go to China to study Buddhism, return home will be China's steam green tea tea-making technology brought back, the role of the 12th century, the Japanese monk Rongxi monk again to study in China, at this time will be the pot of fried tea production method brought to Japan, 1828, after the dissemination of tea successive After 1828, the spread of tea continued to spread widely, has been introduced to Indonesia, Tsarist Russia, India and other countries.