The Beginning

In the year 2737 BC, there lived the legendary Emperor Shen Nong. He was a scholar and an herbalist, and he only drank boiled water. One day, he decided to sit under a wild tea tree to boil his water. While he was boiling his water, a slight breeze came over the tea tree and a few of the leaves fell into the pot. At that exact moment, the Emperor, discovered tea!

There was no written record of tea until the 3rd century BC, in a document that only discussed only its medicinal properties. It wasn’t until the 3rd century AD that tea started to be used other than for medicine. In 618 AD the “golden age of tea” started in the Tang Dynasty, in which the finest teas were offered to the Emperor, and all of his people also enjoyed tea. In 733 AD, Lu Yu wrote the first book public book on tea called “Classic of Tea.” Up until that time there had only been private works in monestraries. The “Classic of Tea” contains a vast array of tea knowledge and correct ways of brewing tea.

by Western Immortal