Why do you start drinking tea? Some people are attractive by the tea aroma and some others believe tea is health and good for their body. Today tea has become second popular beverage in the world. (The first one is water)
In China, tea was not only aware and used in the long history but also tea cultivation and tea plucking. However, why should Chinese start drinking tea? How does the formation of drinking habits?
1, The sacrifice: The theory is that the tea and some other plant was first used as a sacrifice, and later found tea is harmless to eat. In doing so, it was "by the sacrifice, and fresh vegetables, and medicinal" eventually become the drink.
2, Medicine: The theory is that the tea "was originally used as medicine into the human society." "Shen Nong Herbs (神農本草 經) by" wrote: "Shen Nong tasted hundred herbs. One day, he had seventy- two toxics and then detoxicated by tea. <img class="aligncenter" title="Shennong" src="http:// upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/Shennong3.jpg" alt="" width="459" height="426" />
3, Food: It is very easy to understand that the ancient Chinese start eating tea leaf as one kind of vegetables and then become drinking it.
4, Synchronization: The first use of tea may be used as chewing of food ,as a roast to cook the food and then become gradually spice drink. Comparison of these methods and accumulation eventually developed into the habit of drinking tea.
No matter what theory you agree with, welcome to this wonderful tea world. Cheers!