The history of the development of tea, the origin and development history of tea

The history of tea development in China can be traced back to ancient times, when it evolved from the myth and legend of Shennong's attempt at a hundred herbs.

1. Some people think that tea is Shennong boiling water in a kettle pot in the wild, just a few leaves float into the pot, boiled water, its color is slightly yellow, drink in the mouth to quench thirst, refresh the mind, with Shennong's past experience of tasting herbs, judging that it is a medicine and discovered, this is the most common statement about the origin of Chinese tea drinking.

2. From the late Western Han Dynasty to the Three Kingdoms era, tea developed into a high-end drink in the court, and from the Western Jin Dynasty to the Sui Dynasty, tea gradually became an ordinary drink.

3. Tang Dynasty period: Tea mainly flourished in the middle of the Tang Dynasty, and developed into a lively and extraordinary heyday in the Song Dynasty. Song Huizong's "Daguan Tea Treatise" greatly improved the status of the tea ceremony.

4. The rulers of the Song Dynasty had a special fondness for tea, and the customs of the court that loved tea effectively promoted the development of tea production and tea culture, so that tea culture ascended to the altar of great dignity, and the tea ceremony became a noble entertainment.

5. Ming Dynasty: The Ming Dynasty was an era of further development of tea culture, and it was also an era of integration of attack and innovation, and the new concept and new norms of tea ceremony.

6. Some literati after the Qing Dynasty no longer had the tea style of the tea people in the Tang and Song dynasties, which advocated nature, was informal, leisurely and calm, and detached and free, but degenerated into a sick tea style of elegant, red tape, pretentiousness, and delicate style when tasting tea.

This is the history of tea development in China from the Han Dynasty to the Ming and Qing dynasties.

1. Shennong era: 5,000 years ago, the Shennong era used raw leaves to boil and drink, and used tea as medicine.

2. Western Zhou Dynasty and Eastern Zhou Dynasty: Before 3000, tea trees began to be cultivated artificially as vegetables.

3. Qin Dynasty: 2300 years ago, it began to be used as tea, boiling, and soup.

4. Han Dynasty: (Western Han Dynasty) Before 2000, commercialization began, and Chengdu became the earliest distribution center of tea. Around 1500 (Eastern Han Dynasty), tea cakes began to be made for transportation.

5. Tang Dynasty: Before 1200, it was influenced by the economy and culture of the Tang Dynasty; the advocacy of Lu Yu's "Book of Tea"; The influence of monastic life and tea for the teaching was absorbed, and the climatic conditions also benefited from the development of the tea industry.

6. Song Dynasty: the improvement of tea-making skills before 1000; attention to water quality; Bucket tea obtained.

7. Yuan Dynasty: 700 years ago, loose tea was made, stir-fried and slightly steamed.

8. Ming Dynasty: According to more than 600 years now, the craftsmanship of yellow tea, black tea and flower tea has been formed one after another.

9. Qing Dynasty: 300 years ago, Chinese tea swept the world, unique in the world tea market, at that time only China exported tea, the process was mainly roasted and roasted, and oolong tea, black tea, black tea, flower tea, green tea, white tea were made.

1886 was the prosperous period of Chinese tea (the area of tea plantations continued to expand, and the tea production increased rapidly, which effectively promoted the development of foreign countries).

The year 1947 was a period of decline in tea production in China (political, economic, and competitive failures in the international tea market).

In 1988, it was the period of recovery of China's tea production, with the support and attention of the first generation, vigorously restoring the old tea gardens, establishing new tea gardens, improving new varieties, and promoting scientific tea planting, and the tea economy was moving towards a stable development road. This makes the production of tea the second largest in the world.

The origin of tea is the tea of the Tang Dynasty and flourished in the Song Dynasty. China is the hometown of tea, and the world's earliest tea also appeared in China, and the tea culture has a long history.

Tea originated in the Tang Dynasty, flourished in the Song Dynasty, or it may also be at the beginning of the Song Dynasty, there are historical records about the relevant information about tea, "firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar tea", tea has become the seven things that open the door, but also proves the popularity of tea and the degree of love by everyone, the whole people drink tea at that time also really set off a boom, from the Song Dynasty began to become popular a tea, we also have through unremitting efforts to study the relevant knowledge of tea.

Development so far, people for the varieties of tea, distribution area, brewing methods, brewing tea sets and so on have been well understood, in our country, the development of the tea industry, but also played a huge role in promoting the economy of the whole China, the Chinese people like to drink tea, foreign friends also have a lot of tea friends who like to drink tea, we share the joy of drinking tea, talk and laugh together, drink tea, it has become a beautiful thing without borders.

The history of the development of tea is as follows:

Legend has it that Shennong was the first to discover and use tea, which was not originally drunk, but used as medicine. From the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, tea began to enter the homes of ordinary people and became a necessity of life. The fashion of drinking tea was formed, and it gradually spread from south to north and from top to bottom.

The Tang Dynasty was a period when tea culture flourished, and it was also a period of large-scale popularization in tea-producing areas. After Tang Kaiyuan, the tea drinking activity reached an unprecedented scale and became the national drink. Compared with the pre-Tang Dynasty, when tea was mainly used as a medicinal or extensive form of thirst-quenching drinking, this was a qualitative process.

After the Tang Dynasty, although it experienced five dynasties and ten kingdoms, it did not decline but flourished, and it became more prevalent in the Song Dynasty. The Song people also developed some novel and unique techniques for drinking tea, such as: fighting tea and dividing tea.

In the Ming Dynasty, Ming Taizu abolished the tribute of Fujian Jian'an group tea, banned the creation of group tea, and changed the tea system to bud tea, that is, loose tea.

This kind of loose tea is directly roasted without steaming, which retains the true color and true taste of the tea. By the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the drinking method of tea gradually changed to the current drinking method of brewing directly with boiling water. The decline of tea in modern times continued until the founding of New China.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the tea industry also flourished again.

Characteristics of tea culture:

1. Historicity: The formation and development of tea culture has a very long history, which is born with the emergence of commodity economy and the formation of urban culture.

Historically, the tea culture pays attention to ideology, mainly elegant, focusing on the expression of poetry, calligraphy and painting, tea singing and dancing, tea culture has been integrated into the philosophy of Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism, and has evolved into the etiquette and customs of various ethnic groups, becoming a unique cultural model.

2. Epochality: In the new era, the connotation and expression of tea culture continue to expand, extend and develop, exchanges are becoming more and more frequent, and the way of tea culture communication is large-scale, modernized, socialized and internationalized.

3. Nationality: The national tea art formed on the basis of the national tea drinking method is rich in life and culture, showing the diversity of tea drinking, the rich and colorful life interest, as well as tea customs and festive weddings, and fully demonstrating the national nature of tea culture.

Tea originated in China more than 5,000 years ago.

The origin of the "history of Chinese tea" is so far a matter of opinion, controversy is undecided, roughly speaking, there are pre-Qin theory, Western Han Dynasty theory, Three Kingdoms theory. Tea appeared as a cultural appearance, in the two Jin and Northern Dynasties.

Overview of the history of tea

China is the origin of tea. Chinese people are familiar with tea, from the emperor and generals, the literati and inkers, the sons and hundreds of families, down to the porters and traders, and the common people, all of whom regard tea as good.

People often say: "Seven things to open the door, firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea". It can be seen that tea has penetrated into all strata of the people. Similarly, ethnic minorities are also good tea, Tibetan butter tea, Mongolian milk grandson Tuancao tea.

History of Tea

Tea appeared as a cultural appearance, in the two Jin and Northern Dynasties. If its origin is to be traced back to the Han or liquid dynasties, there are official records ("The Covenant" written by Wang Bao of the Han Dynasty). The earliest people who liked to drink tea were mostly literati and elegant people.

In the history of Chinese literature, when it comes to Han Fu, Sima Xiangru and Yang Xiong are the first to be recommended, and they are both famous tea people in the early days. Sima Xiangru once wrote "Fan Jiang" and Yang Xiong wrote "Dialect", one from the medicinal point of view, and the other from the literary point of view of tea.

Zhang Zai of the Jin Dynasty once wrote "Poems of Dengchengdu Building": "I want to see Changqinglu by asking Yang Zishe", "Fangcha crowns six feelings, and overflows with flavor and spreads nine districts".