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1. Tea: An evergreen woody plant with oblong leaves, generally white flowers and hard-shelled seeds. The young leaves are processed into tea. It is an important economic crop in southern my country.

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3. In the old days, it refers to the betrothal gift (in ancient times, betrothal gifts were mostly tea): give the betrothal gift.

4. Brown: ~ mirror. ~Crystal.

5. The names of some beverages: milk ~. Fruit

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There is a long record of tea tasting in Chinese history. It is impossible to pinpoint the exact era, but there are general estimates of the era. There is also evidence that the habit of drinking tea was indeed passed on from China to many parts of the world. Therefore, many people believe that drinking tea was first invented by the Chinese, and that the tea drinking and tea planting habits in other parts of the world were passed on directly or indirectly from China.

However, some people have been able to find evidence that the habit of drinking tea was not only invented by the Chinese, but was also invented in other parts of the world, such as India and Africa. In 1823, a major in the British invading army discovered large wild tea trees in India, and some people began to believe that the birthplace of tea was in India, or at least in India. Of course, there are records of wild large tea trees in China, which are concentrated in the southwest region, and the records also include individual areas of Gansu and Hunan. Tea tree is a very ancient dicotyledonous plant that is closely related to people's lives.
There are many different opinions on the origin of tea drinking in China: Tracing back to the origin of tea drinking among Chinese, some believe that it started in ancient times, some believe that it started in the Zhou Dynasty, and there are also opinions that it started in the Qin and Han Dynasties, the Three Kingdoms, the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and the Tang Dynasty. The main reason for the different opinions is that there was no word "tea" before the Tang Dynasty, and there was only the record of the word "荼". It was not until Lu Yu, the author of The Classic of Tea, that he reduced one stroke from the word "荼" and wrote it as "茶". Therefore, there is a saying that tea originated in the Tang Dynasty. Other theories include that it originated from Shennong, or from the Qin and Han Dynasties.

1. Theory of the Origin of the Era

Shennong talks about Tang Dynasty. Lu Yu's "The Classic of Tea" says: "Tea as a drink originated from Shennong." In the history of China's cultural development, the origins of all things related to agriculture and plants are often ultimately attributed to Shennong. The claim that Chinese tea drinking originated from Shennong has also led to different opinions due to folk legends. Some people believe that tea was discovered by Shennong when he was boiling water in a pot in the wild. A few leaves happened to float into the pot. The boiled water was slightly yellow in color, and drinking it quenched thirst and refreshed the mind. Based on Shennong's experience of tasting hundreds of herbs in the past, he judged that tea was a medicine. This is the most common theory about the origin of tea drinking in China.

Western Zhou talks about Jin. Chang Qu's "Huayang Guozhi". "Ba Zhi" records: "When King Wu of Zhou defeated King Zhou, he actually captured the troops of Ba and Shu,... and offered tea and honey... as tribute." This record shows that when King Wu of Zhou defeated King Zhou, the State of Ba had already offered tea and other precious products as tribute to King Wu of Zhou. "Huayang Guozhi" also records that there were artificially cultivated tea gardens at that time.

The Qin and Han Dynasty theory holds that the earliest existing reliable tea research data was in the Han Dynasty, with Tong Yue written by Wang Bao as the main basis. This article was written on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month in the third year of Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty (59 BC). It was the most important document in the history of tea studies before the Classic of Tea. The text explains the development of tea culture at that time.

There is a view that tea drinking in China began in the Six Dynasties. Some people believe that it started with "Sun Hao replacing wine with tea", while others believe that it started with "Wang Su drinking tea". In Japan and India, there is a view that tea drinking began with "Dharma's meditation". However, the Qin and Han Dynasty theory has solid historical evidence, which weakens the correctness of the Six Dynasties theory.

2. Functional Origin Theory

1. Sacrifice theory: This theory holds that tea and some other plants were first used as sacrifices. Later, someone tasted them and found that they were harmless, so they "went from sacrifices to vegetables, to medicines", and finally became beverages;

2. Medicine theory: This theory holds that tea "was first introduced into human society as medicine." It is written in the "Shennong's Herbal Classic": "Shennong tasted hundreds of herbs and encountered 72 poisons every day, which he could cure with tea";

3. Food theory: "In ancient times, people ate grass and drank water" and "food is the first priority for people". Food comes first, which is in line with the evolutionary law of human society.

4. Synchronous theory: The earliest use of tea may be as a chewable food, or as a roasted or cooked food, and gradually as a medicinal drink;

5. Social Theory: "Zai Jing Tang Collection" records: "Tea, either belonging to rare grass or fine wood, is a precious plant. Ancient names include 槚蔎茗荈. "Erya·Shi Mu" says: '槚, bitter tea.'蔎 is a fragrant herb. Tea is fragrant, so it is named 攎. Ming荈 are all late-picked teas. Ming is also a general name for tea. The use of tea is not only for medicine and food, but also for entertaining guests." There is a poem "Guests Come" which says: "Guests come on the ninth day of the first lunar month, and the courtyard is full of goose yellow willows. We sit and discuss papers, and the fragrance of brewed tea is better than wine." This theory theoretically introduced tea into the category of interpersonal communication, highlighting a kind of elegance in social occasions, and opened the "social theory" of the cause of tea drinking.