The history of tea - Shunan Teng

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“茶圣”陆羽在《茶经》中介绍:“凡采茶,在二月、三月、四月之间。”在“茶圣”看来,春天是茶叶采制的大好时机。在我国,有按节气定义春茶的传统,茶有“三前”一说,即分别在春分、清明及谷雨三个节气前后采制的茶。我国茶叶历史久远,从起源到现在茶叶经历了哪些?

During a long day spent roaming the forest in search of edible grains and herbs, the weary divine farmer Shennong accidentally poisoned himself 72 times.

But before the poisons could end his life, a leaf drifted into his mouth.

He chewed on it and it revived him, and that is how we discovered tea.

Or so an ancient legend goes at least.

Tea doesn't actually cure poisonings, but the story of Shennong, the mythical Chinese inventor of agriculture, highlights tea's importance to ancient China.

Archaeological evidence suggests tea was first cultivated there as early as 6,000 years ago, or 1,500 years before the pharaohs built the Great Pyramids of Giza.

That original Chinese tea plant is the same type that's grown around the world today, yet it was originally consumed very differently.

It was eaten as a vegetable or cooked with grain porridge.

Tea only shifted from food to drink 1,500 years ago when people realized that a combination of heat and moisture could create a complex and varied taste out of the leafy green.

After hundreds of years of variations to the preparation method, the standard became to heat tea, pack it into portable cakes, grind it into powder, mix with hot water, and create a beverage called muo cha, or matcha.

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