Tea historically originated in China, China is the world's earliest discovery of tea and the effective use of tea in the country, China's tea culture is in the late Sui Dynasty, the early Tang Dynasty began to gradually take shape at that time, people on the choice of tea and water, cooking methods and drinking tea in the environment more and more elaborate, and gradually formed the atmosphere of the solemn, elegant environment at the same time, the etiquette of a strict Tea culture.

During the Sui and Tang dynasties, tea cultivation and processing technologies began to develop at a rapid pace, resulting in the emergence of many different types of tea, and the way of drinking tea was gradually enriched.

In the middle of the Tang Dynasty, around 780 AD, Lu Yu of the Tang Dynasty wrote a book called "The Book of Tea", which elaborated on the ideas of tea, tea art and tea ceremony, laying the foundation for the prosperity of tea culture in later generations.

Development

1, Wei and Jin

Tea, from Shennong's, but in the Qin era, tea is more just the exclusive princes and nobles. By the Wei, Jin and North and South Dynasties, with the prevalence of Buddhist culture in China, tea drinking gradually became popular among Buddhists. But because of the constant wars at that time, people didn't have much effort to study tea in front of the big problem of survival.

2, Tang Dynasty

Tang Dynasty, the country is peaceful, tea slowly to the public, Lu Yu, mainly some of the literati began to study its tea, tea culture, the core content of the "tea ceremony", it is in this period was born, the content of a variety of connotations of the tea culture, in the Tang Dynasty, the initial formation of the period. Formed.

3, Song Dynasty

Tea culture in the Song Dynasty developed to a climax, the emergence of professional tea societies, the court also set up a special tea organs, the folk are fighting tea wind. Japan's prevalent tea ceremony, it is in this period spread over. Unfortunately, after the Song Dynasty, tea culture began to decline, there is still no Sheng Tang, Southern Song period of the flourishing state.