Yan Zi's Spring and Autumn Annals Under the Miscellaneous Clouds says that "Yan Zi is harmonious, wearing ten liters of cloth, eating millet and eating five eggs of moss", thinking that drinking tea (that is, tea) began in the Spring and Autumn Period. However, Yan Zi Chun Qiu was not written by Qi Yanying, so it is difficult to be established. Moreover, Wan Weiting's Collection of Sleepy Learning says: "This edition of Yan Zi's Miscellaneous Chapters in the Spring and Autumn Annals is a three-and-a-half-year-old moss dish, which was collected as tea by Yu Lan ..." Although it is tea, it is not drinkable tea. Therefore, drinking tea is invisible in the classics. The world also takes the poem "Who is bitter for tea" as proof of drinking tea. I don't know if this tea is bitter, not "tea bitter", and I can't sell myself short. There seems to be no wind of drinking tea during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Therefore, Zhou Li Tianguan Jiazi No.1 said that the pulp man provided Wang with six kinds of drinks, one is water, the other is pulp, the third is water, the fourth is cold, the fifth is medicine and the sixth is unitary. I haven't seen tea ... Since the Han Dynasty, drinking tea has been recorded from time to time. During the Three Kingdoms period, Wu drank the wine of his ministers at a rate of seven liters, but only two liters, or reduced it, or used tea as wine (The History of the Three Kingdoms, Wu Zhi Wei Yao), which may be used to entertain guests. Why else would there be tea at the banquet? Zhang Hua, a Jin native, once said that "drinking real tea can make people sleep less" (Zhang Hua's Natural History), which means that Jin people also have the habit of drinking tea, so tea has a long history. Song Peihan's Tea Story said: "Tea originated in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and flourished today (Song Dynasty)." Correct mistakes. "Galand in Luoyang" refers to the period when Liang Wudi and Tian Jian started drinking tea in the Southern Dynasties, which is particularly wrong. The so-called wind of drinking tea began in the Han and Wei Dynasties and prevailed in the Han and Wei Dynasties. Because it was not common in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, how can we say Han and Wei Dynasties? Here are two anecdotes from Miscellanies of Tea History:
When Xiao, the king of Qi, first entered Wei, he did not eat mutton crisp paste, but often ate fresh fish soup and longed for tea juice. When he saw Xiao drinking a bucket of water, the number was missed. Later, he and Gaozu ate goat cheese porridge. Gaozu asked him that in Japan, sheep was the ancestor of land animals and fish was the leader of aquatic animals. Their interests were different and they were all called treasures ... but tea was missed, and they were different from each other.
When Zheng De surrendered, Yuan Yi wanted to make a name for himself. First, he asked how deep he was in the water. Zheng De doesn't know what he means. One day: Xiaguan was born in a water town. Since he became independent, he hasn't suffered from Yang Hou, and all the guests laughed.
Before, Wei Jing, a scholar of the Northern Dynasties, saw Xiao drinking tea, calling it strange and famous. From the latter point of view, if Youyangte wants to prepare tea for Xiao Zhengde, it is rare and strange, and it is not a household item, which at least proves that this is not an ordinary thing. Otherwise, it is not something used by Xianbei people in the Northern Dynasties. At this time, drinking tea may be confined to a certain place and is not popular among the people. So it can only be called the beginning of drinking tea. The popularity of drinking tea began in the Tang Dynasty. People in the Tang Dynasty began to like drinking tea. Dongpo's poem says, "Send bitter tea and drink it out of the world." It is based on today's tea. Since the Tang Dynasty, it has become commonplace for ordinary people to drink several bowls of wine every day. (Excerpted from Huang Xianfan's A Preliminary Study on the Interpretation of Ancient Books, Guangxi Normal University Press, July 2004,No. 1 Edition)
Note (1): The original word is unitary addition, both left and right.
Indeed, the habit of drinking tea in many parts of the world was handed down from China. Therefore, many people think that drinking tea was initiated by China people, and the habit of drinking and growing tea in other parts of the world was passed down directly or indirectly from China.
(1) Shennong period: Tang Lu Yu's Tea Classic: "Tea is a drink, which originated from Shennong." In the history of cultural development in China, the origin of all things related to agriculture and plants always belongs to Shennong. After coming back here, you can't push it up any more. Because of this, Shennong became the god of agriculture.
(2) Western Zhou Dynasty: Jinchangqu's "Eight Records of Huayang Country": "Zhou Wuwang's attack on Zhou Dynasty is really a teacher of Bashu, and all tea and honey are accepted." This record shows that when Zhou Wuwang attacked the week, Pakistanis had paid tribute to it with tea and other precious products. It is also recorded in Huayang National Records that there were already artificially cultivated tea gardens.
(3) Qin and Han Dynasties: Western Han Dynasty. Wang Bao's Tongyue: "Exhausting tea" and "Wuyang buying tea" are the teas after the exam. In recent years, in the tomb of the Western Han Dynasty in Mawangdui, Changsha, "? A "and"? " Textual research on bamboo slips woodcut "?" That is, the variant of "rhyme" shows that tea drinking in Hunan was quite extensive at that time. We still drink the same drinks as our ancient ancestors, such as Jiang Taigong, which is really exciting. Can give us a lot of reverie.
In ancient historical materials, there are many names of tea, but "tea" is the correct name, and the word "tea" was generally written as "tea" before the middle Tang Dynasty. The word "tea" has the nature of polysemy, which means tea, and it is one of them. Due to the development of tea production, the popularity of drinking tea is getting higher and higher, and the frequency of using tea characters is getting higher and higher. Therefore, in order to express the meaning of tea more clearly and intuitively, folk writers subtract a dash from the word "tea" and it becomes the word "tea" we see now.
The germination of the word "tea" simplified from "tea" originated in the Han Dynasty. In ancient printing in China, some words of "tea" have been subtracted and changed into the shape of "tea". Not only the font, but also the pronunciation of "tea" was established in the Western Han Dynasty. For example, Chaling in Hunan was once the territory of Liu Xin in the Western Han Dynasty, commonly known as "Tea City", and was one of the subordinate counties of Changsha 13 at that time, and was called "Chaling County". The word "tea" in Yan Shigu's annotation of Han Geography is "tea": loud and rebellious, arrogant and rebellious. This inverted phonetic notation is the pronunciation of the word "tea" now. Judging from this phenomenon, the pronunciation of the word "tea" was established earlier than that of the word "tea".
China has a vast territory and abundant resources, and many nationalities, so its language and writing are also rich and colorful. The same thing has many names, and the same name has many ways of writing.
There are many names about tea in ancient historical materials. By the middle Tang Dynasty, the sound, shape and meaning of tea had tended to be unified. Later, due to the wide spread of Lu Yu's Tea Classic, the shape of "tea" was further established until today.
In the ancient literature of China, there are long records about eating tea, and the names are different from place of origin. China's tea spread abroad as early as the Western Han Dynasty. When Emperor Wu sent envoys to zhina Peninsula, he brought with him not only gold, brocade and silk, but also tea. During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, China tea was exported to Turkey together with silk and porcelain. In Yongzhen Garden, Tang Shunzong, the most sincere Zen master in Japan returned to China and brought China's tea seeds back to Japan. Since then, tea has spread from China to all parts of the world, making many countries begin to grow tea and have the habit of drinking tea.
However, some people can find evidence that the habit of drinking tea was invented not only in China, but also in other parts of the world, such as India and Africa.
1823, a major of the British invading army discovered wild tea trees in India, so some people began to believe that tea originated in India, at least in India. Of course, there are records of wild tea trees in China, all of which are concentrated in the southwest, and some areas in Gansu and Hunan are also recorded. Tea tree is a very old dicotyledonous plant, which is closely related to people's lives.
In China, there are also arguments about the earliest origin of tea trees, and there are several opinions. Many people believe that in Yunnan, after careful study, a scholar asserted that Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province is the origin of tea trees. The earliest written records of artificially cultivated tea trees began with Mengshan tea in the Western Han Dynasty. This is recorded in Sichuan Tongzhi.