Offerings:
The allegation that some tea
and other plants was first used as offerings, but found it was reimbursement of fresh and fresh sound, it "from the offerings, and fresh vegetables, and medicinal" and ultimately become beverages. Drugs:
This allegation that tea "as a medicinal initially entered human society.", "Shennong Baicao
as" wrote: "Shennong taste hundred herbs, the case of 72 drugs, and a solution of tea." Food:
"Ancient Grass to the RU drinking water," Fresh first meet the evolution of human society.
Synchronous said:
"Initially the ways and means of tea, I might as chewing the grass, may also be baked as a cook food, medicine also expected gradually to drink." Comparison of these methods and accumulated ultimately become a "tea" is the best way.
Several of the above argument is the fourth most useless, it is the previous three combined, has become his "absolute safety" interpretation. Perhaps this interpretation is the most appropriate place.
Now we can be demonstrated early tea in China
will understand and use, there are also early tea tea cultivation and the acquisition. But can research, the tea all sectors in society are widely popular for drinking, generally or in the Tang Dynasty Lu Yu's "Tea Classic" handed down later. So a Song Dynasty poem cloud "since Lu Yu Sheng world, the world of learning things Spring Tea." In other words, after the invention of tea, there are more than a millennium of time is not known to the public
