Cginese people generally drink tea in two major ways. Some, according Io their ersonal taste, like to add salt. sugar. milk, shallot, orange peel, mint, iongan. and Chinese date into tea while drinking, whereas some others only cook tea with boiled water without adding anything to spoil the original taste of tea. This is called "pure ctrinkingf in which way some people drink with big bowls to satisfy thirst, and some others who emphasizz tl1e mlur, fragrance and taste of tea and are particular about t]1e water quality would sip and appreciate the tea slowly. lf equal importance is given to the drinking atmosphere, tea cooking technique, as well as public relations, one has to go to tea houses to appreciate "tca ceremony? Tea ceremonies are not mystic. They are both commonplace and elevated, just like the character of Chinese people, casual and natural, not restricted by certain patterns.

The Chinese have an inveteratu habit of drinking tea. The way uf drinking tea goes through a change from simplicity to complication and then back to simplicity again — from frying to cooking, from roll tea to loose tea. At the very beginning, people put leaves directly into the pot to boil. just as Shen Nong did. Later. with the improvement of tea production and preservation skills, people ground tea leaves to make tea cake and added water when drinking it. Up to Ming Dynasty, loose tea leaves completely replaced tea cake to take the lead in tea drinking, and @ continued ever since.

It's recorded in documents that as early as 2000 BC, Sichuan Province in southwest China already produced tea leaves, and even presented them as tribute to the royai family of Kingdom Zhou. Some scholars also found out that the discovery and usage of tea has a history of at least 10,DDG years. Still, it has been a long time before tea was widely accepted as a kind ot drink. Within a very long period, hea is as important as medicine, or even more important than, it is food and drink.

Hi On Boards,
I am Jenny how are you . Chinese people are much fond of drinking tea.The tea drinking habit in china is too much they couldn't even live a second without taking tea.Different people in china have different habits of drinking tea some only boiled water and take original tea.While some make other
addition and variation in the style of tea.

Thanks..

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