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Chinese Tea Culture Evaluation only. Created with Aspose.Slides for .NET 3.5 Client Profile 5.2.0.0. Copyright 2004-2011 Aspose Pty Ltd. History of the Tea ? China is the initial place of tea and also the fist country to discover the tea tree and make use of it. Early back to primitive society, tea has been used as medicine. Tea has been found in the record documents of China’ Zhou dynasty about 1100BC. People began to drink tea in their daily life and the appeared the market of tea in 100BC. Drinking tea became a fashion in Xijin dynasty and Tang dynasty . “Tea Jing”(茶经) written by Lu Yu in 760AD was the first book of tea in the world, which promote the development of tea culture. Evaluation only. Created with Aspose.Slides for .NET 3.5 Client Profile 5.2.0.0. Copyright 2004-2011 Aspose Pty Ltd. Shennong Tasted Plants Shen Nong Shi, the God of Agriculture, was believed to be the first to discover tea. In his “Book of Herbs”(神农本草经), it says that “Shen Nong shi personally tasted hundreds of species of herbs and he was hit by 72 poisons in a single day. But he used a kind of tree leaves to ease his case and it turned out to be tea tree. Evaluation only. Created with Aspose.Slides for .NET 3.5 Client Profile 5.2.0.0. Copyright 2004-2011 Aspose Pty Ltd. Lu Yu(陆羽): Sage of Tea Lu Yu of the Tang Dynasty is respected as the Sage of Tea(茶圣) for his contribution to Chinese tea culture. He is best known for his book the Classic of Tea (茶经), which is the first monograph on cultivating, making and drinking tea in the world Evaluation only. Created with Aspose.Slides for .NET 3.5 Client Profile 5.2.0.0. Copyright 2004-2011 Aspose Pty Ltd. The Spread of Chinese Tea ? As Buddhist priests start to move around China and Japan， the spread of cultivation and tea drinking follows them. ? The first mention of tea outside China and Japan is said to be by the Arabs in 850 AD and it was they who were reputed to have brought it to Europe via the Venetians(威尼斯) circa 1559. ? However，