Tea has existed as a beverage since 2000 . The brewing, serving, and drinking of tea are time-honored rituals throughout the world. While there is general agreement that the tea trade began in China, both China and India lay claim to discovering the dietary properties of tea leaves. The Chinese tell the story of a mythical emperor named Shen Nung who was so particular about his nutrition that he boiled his drinking water before he drank it. One day, the story goes, the wind caught some of the leaves on the tree branches that he had used to build a fire. The leaves floated into his boiling. | phanquangthoai@yahoo lhu Cong nghe san xudt tra tui loc tea bag Background Tea has existed as a beverage since 2000 . The brewing serving and drinking of tea are time-honored rituals throughout the world. While there is general agreement that the tea trade began in China both China and India lay claim to discovering the dietary properties of tea leaves. The Chinese tell the story of a mythical emperor named Shen Nung who was so particular about his nutrition that he boiled his drinking water before he drank it. One day the story goes the wind caught some of the leaves on the tree branches that he had used to build a fire. The leaves floated into his boiling water and lo tea was created. In India the discovery is attributed to Bodhidharma an actual person who founded the Ch-an School of Buddhism. In . 527 after four years of a self-imposed nine-year meditation Bodhidharma grew sleepy. In an attempt to stay awake he began to chew on the twigs of a nearby tree and suddenly found himself wide awake he had discovered tea. Trang 1 ks. phanquangthoai phanquangthoai@yahoo lhu The tea bush is a white-flowered evergreen in the Camellia family. Chinese documents record it as indigenous to the Hunan province in southwest China. In modern times it is generally accepted that the original tea bush grew in India and was brought to China. It thrives in a rocky terrain. In approximately . 350 tea cultivation was also reported in the Szechwan province along the Yangtze River. During the T ang Dynasty in the eighth century tea drinking achieved the status of an art form. Tea merchants hired a man named Lu Yu to compile the first written record of Chinese tea ceremonies. Entitled Ch a Ching The Class of Tea the three-volume work revolutionized the tea industry. The second volume includes an exhaustive list of the equipment necessary to brew tea correctly all-told 24 items are listed. In the 12th century monks from the Zen sect of Buddhists brought the teabrewing process home .
