There is a long history of tea drinking in Chinese history, and it is impossible to find out exactly what time it is, but there is a saying in the general era. And there is evidence to show that the habit of drinking tea in many parts of the world is indeed passed down from China. Therefore, many people think that drinking tea is the first of its kind in China. The drinking habits and the cultivation of tea leaves in other parts of the world are directly or indirectly passed from China.
However, some people can find evidence that the habit of drinking tea is not only invented by the Chinese, but also in other places in the world, such as India and Africa. In 1823, a major British invader found a wild tea tree in India, and some people began to believe that the birthplace of tea was in India, or at least in India. Of course, China also has records of wild big tea trees, all concentrated in the southwest region, and the records also include individual regions of Gansu and Hunan. Tea tree is a very old dicotyledonous plant, closely related to people's lives.
There are many opinions on the origin of Chinese tea drinking: Tracing back to the origin of Chinese tea drinking, some think that it originated in the ancient times, some think that it started in the Zhou Dynasty, and there are also sayings from the Qin and Han Dynasties, the Three Kingdoms, the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and the Tang Dynasty. The main reason for the divergent opinions is Because there was no word "tea" before the Tang Dynasty, only the word "Tu" was recorded. Until Lu Yu, the author of the tea classics, reduced the word "Tu" to "Tea". Therefore, it is said that tea originated in the Tang Dynasty. Others still have the origins of Shennong and Qin and Han.