It is recommended to send tea and wine together, as both tea and wine are traditional Chinese gifts.
Tea, refers to the leaves or buds of the tea tree. Tea is generally referred to as a beverage that is processed from the leaves of the tea tree and can be brewed directly with boiling water. Tea is a dicotyledonous plant, about 30 genera, 500 species, distributed in tropical and subtropical regions. China has 14 genera, 397 species, mainly produced in the south of the Yangtze River, of which the tea genus Camellia and the genus Schima are very rich economic value.
2nd century BC, the Western Han Sima Xiangru in the "Where will be mentioned in the" Thea sinensis amazed "is the tea; the end of the Western Han Dynasty, in Yang Xiong's "Fang Fang", called the tea "She"; in the "Shennong Materia Medica" (about the Han Dynasty), called the "Tantui grass". For example, in the Han Dynasty, Zhao Feiyan's biography, there is a section on tea drinking. The collapse of Emperor Cheng of Han Dynasty, "after (i.e., after the emperor) bed fright cried for a long time, the attendants called to ask, Fang Jue, was said: appropriate my dream to see the emperor, the emperor from the cloud to give me a seat, the emperor ordered to enter the tea.
Left and right played the emperor, after the day to serve the emperor is not rigorous, not suction this tea." This shows that at that time, tea has become a drink in the royal family.