Tea originated in China, and there are thousands of years of tea drinking traditions and related records in China. For example, the tea-making technology in the Song Dynasty was beautiful, and everyone would praise the Prime Minister for offering a good cup of tea to others. Therefore, the song dynasty's "not a day without tea" is also widely circulated.
There are different opinions about the origin of ethnic tea drinking: some people think it originated from Shennong in ancient times, some people think it originated from Zhou Dynasty, and some people think it originated from Qin and Han Dynasties. The main reason for the disagreement is that the orthography of the word "tea" was "tea" before the Tang Dynasty, and Lu Yu, the author of the Tang Dynasty Tea Classic, wrote "tea" by subtracting a picture from the word "tea", so some people say that tea originated in the Tang Dynasty. But in fact, this is just a simplification of words, and in the Han Dynasty, people already used the word tea. Lu Yu just summed up the history and culture of ancestors drinking tea.
Now we can prove that China's understanding and utilization of tea has a long history, and the cultivation and harvest of tea trees have a long history. But why did humans drink tea in the first place? How did you get into the habit of drinking tea?
1, Sacrifice said: This statement holds that tea and other plants were first used as sacrifices. Later, some people found that it was harmless to eat, so it was "eaten by sacrifices, but eaten by vegetables, but used as medicine" and eventually became a drink.
2. Pharmacology: This view holds that tea "originally entered human society as a medicine." "Shennong Hundred Herbs Classic" wrote: "Shennong tasted a hundred herbs, and when he encountered seventy-two poisons every day, he was relieved by tea."
3. Eating: "The ancients drank water like grass" and "the people put food first". Eating first conforms to the evolutionary law of human society.
4. Synchronicity: At first, tea may be used as chewing food, baking food, and gradually used as medicine.
The comparison and accumulation of these ways will eventually form the habit of drinking tea.
The most useless of the above statements is the fourth, which adds up the first three and becomes your own "foolproof" explanation. Perhaps this explanation is the most appropriate. However, it can also be verified that tea is widely used in all walks of life, probably after Lu Yu's Tea Classic was handed down in the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, there is a poem in the Song Dynasty that "since Lu Yu was born, the world has learned from each other's strengths and made spring tea". In other words, after the invention of tea, 1000 was not known to the public for many years.
Now we can prove that China's understanding and utilization of tea has a long history, and the cultivation and harvest of tea trees have a long history. But why did humans drink tea in the first place? How did you get into the habit of drinking tea?
1, Sacrifice said: This statement holds that tea and other plants were first used as sacrifices. Later, some people found that it was harmless to eat, so it was "eaten by sacrifices, but eaten by vegetables, but used as medicine" and eventually became a drink.
2. Pharmacology: This view holds that tea "originally entered human society as a medicine." "Shennong Hundred Herbs Classic" wrote: "Shennong tasted a hundred herbs, and when he encountered seventy-two poisons every day, he was relieved by tea."
3. Eating: "The ancients drank water like grass" and "the people put food first". Eating first conforms to the evolutionary law of human society.
4. Synchronicity: At first, tea may be used as chewing food, baking food, and gradually used as medicine.
The comparison and accumulation of these ways will eventually form the habit of drinking tea.
The most useless of the above statements is the fourth, which adds up the first three and becomes your own "foolproof" explanation. Perhaps this explanation is the most appropriate.
Then passed down from generation to generation. Therefore, there is a poem in the Song Dynasty that "since Lu Yu was born, the world has learned from each other's strengths and made spring tea". In other words, after the invention of tea, 1000 was not known to the public for many years. Drinking tea is like tasting life. It doesn't need much decoration, but it needs the right temperature to make the best tea. As for the taste of tea, you need to savor it carefully!