Tea is the source of health. As a traditional Chinese health drink, tea has a history of thousands of years. For thousands of years, drinking tea has not only represented a way of life and a cultural taste, but also represented a unique idea of ??health preservation.

Health-preserving tea has a very long history, with a history of thousands of years in our country.

Tea first appeared in Chinese history as a medicine. The "Shen Nong's Materia Medica" records: "Shen Nong tasted hundreds of herbs and said that when he encountered seventy-two poisons, he was able to cure them." At that time, " "Tea" refers to wild tea leaves. This was the first time that humans realized the medical effects of tea, but at that time they were eating tea, not drinking tea. Judging from the existing ancient literature, the first people to use tea as a drink should be the Bashu people in the Spring and Autumn Period. Because Gu Yanwu, a famous scholar of the Qing Dynasty, pointed out in "Rizhilu": "Since the Qin people took Shu, tea drinking began." It can be seen that the earliest history of health-preserving tea can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period.

By the Western Han Dynasty, drinking tea had become a part of the daily life of the upper class at that time. "Tong Yue" written by Wang Bao of the Western Han Dynasty records that at that time, there was a custom among scholars of "guests coming to cook tea". At this time, tea drinking was limited to the upper class and had not yet become common people. The main method was to make tea.

Drinking tea became truly common among the people in the Tang Dynasty. At that time, not only the upper class liked to drink tea, but also among the people. Lu Yu, the tea sage, described the popularity of tea at that time in his "The Book of Tea": "...Xie An and Zuo Si's disciples all seemed to drink tea, so they were very popular with the times, immersed in the secular world, and flourished in the country. In the two capitals of Jingzhou and Yuzhou, it has become a must-drink for every household."

During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, tea became popular. With the participation of literati, tea drinking became more and more important. In order to distinguish the taste of elegance, people at that time attached great importance to tea products, heat, cooking methods, drinking effects, etc. The expansion of the Yuan Empire spread the tea-drinking style to wherever the Mongolian cavalry went.

The Ming and Qing Dynasties were the heyday of the development of health-preserving tea. The way of drinking tea also changed from boiling tea to making tea. Health-preserving tea in the modern sense appeared. People in the Ming Dynasty began to add milk, Lemon, sugar, etc. Tea drinking became a common practice in the Ming Dynasty, which was mainly reflected in the fact that literati often drank tea to cheer up. Therefore, there were countless works about tea in the Ming Dynasty. Talented literati often used "tea events" as the theme in their calligraphy and paintings, such as Wen Zhengming's "Tea Tasting Picture", Tang Yin's "Shi Ming Picture", Qiu Ying's "Trying the Spring in the Pine Pavilion", etc. During the Qing Dynasty, the cultural nature of tea drinking had been greatly weakened, and it was more practical and utilitarian.