chinese tea history

In the process of Chinese ancient civilization, The Tea Road is the most famous and important road as the cultural route that communicated extensively with other countries in the world, which still affects people’s life style and behavior yet.
China is the earliest country which found and makes use of tea tree in the world, which is honored “the motherland of tea”. According to the document record in the Shi Jing and Er Ya, 3000 years ago, Chinese began to plant and drink tea which gets around in the world in Han Dynasty. The fashion of planting and drinking tea is all originated from china and Chinese tea as well as the tea pot became the symbol of china. Although the British Major Mr. R. Bruce found the wild tea trees in the north of India in 1824, the knowledge and use of tea was influenced by Chinese tea culture afterwards. Presently, there are about 50 countries planting tea trees which distribute over the wide regions between the north latitude 45°and south latitude 34°, and the rite of drinking tea spreads all over the world.