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Tea as a Way: A Brief History of the Origin and Development of Tea

China has a long history of tea, and the Chinese tea culture is even more profound. Tea for the Way has compiled some information about the origin and development of tea, giving you a brief history of the development of tea, in the hope that you can have a preliminary knowledge of Chinese tea culture. China is the home of tea and was the first country in the world to discover tea and make use of it. No country can deny China's status as the suzerain state of the tea ceremony, otherwise it would be against the basic civilisation of the tea ceremony. The origin of the tea tree is at least 60,000 to 70,000 years old. Tea has been discovered and utilised by mankind for about four to five thousand years. So tea is the national drink of the Chinese people, developed in the Shennong clan, heard in the Lu Zhou Gong, flourished in the Tang dynasty, flourished in the Song dynasty and became popular in the Ming and Qing dynasties. There is a legend about the origin of tea: Shennong tasted hun