The Tang Dynasty unified the whole country, cultivated literature and attached importance to farming, which promoted the development of tea production. Because of domestic peace and social stability, people can live and work in peace and contentment.

With the development of agriculture and handicraft production, the production and trade of tea also flourished rapidly, becoming the first peak in the history of Chinese tea.

At that time, the tea producing areas were distributed in the Yangtze River, the Pearl River basin and many counties in more than a dozen areas such as Shaanxi and Henan. At that time, the steamed green tea made from Wuyishan tea was very famous.