History
of tea
Contributed by Han Yubing
Japanese
tea comes from China. People began drinking tea 2,000 years ago
in China.
In
Chinese myth, early inhabitants searched the mountains for medicines
and got poisoned by 72 different kinds of plants. But in the end,
they were saved by the blade of the tea. From then on, people continued
drinking tea as medicine.
In
the Heian period, tea was handed down to Japan by a Japanese priest
who gave it to the Emperor. After that, in the 12th century, the
way of serving tea was introduced to Japan. The first book of tea
was published in the 15th century. At that time, tea was used only
by the upper classes and they treated it as an event.
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