历史文化篇

    中国是茶的故乡，我国西南地区是茶树原产地。
   “神农尝百草，日遇七十二毒，得荼而解之。”这是我国先民对茶认识的最早记载。
    茶由中国的西南地区经巴蜀顺长江而下，经历数千年蒙昧混沌、兴亡盛衰，在唐朝进入全盛时期。国家的统一，交通的发达，以及南北经济文化交流的不断加深，为茶叶的生产及相关文化的传播提供了良好的条件。
    宋代是中国历史上茶文化大发展的一个重要时期。宋代贡茶工艺的不断发展以及皇帝和上层人士的投入，取代了唐代由茶人与僧人领导的茶文化发展的局面，民间茶风更为普及，茶坊、茶肆的出现使茶开始走向世俗，并形成了有关茶的礼仪。
明太祖朱元璋下诏废团茶改贡散茶是一大创举，饼茶为散形叶茶所代替，两宋时的斗茶之风随之消失，品饮方式发生了划时代的变化，以沸水冲泡叶茶的品饮方法一直延续至今。
    清代的茶文化表现得更加世俗，茶文化开始转向民间，深入市井，与人们的日常生活、伦常礼仪结合起来，逐渐形成一种普遍的民族习惯。

Historical culture

China is the hometown for tea. Southeast China is the place of origin of tea tree.
Shennong ever suffered 72 poisons in trying herb medicines and tea is the detoxifcation for him, which is the earliest record of tea by our ancestors.
Tea attained the prime in Tang Dynasty ,which spread from southwest China through Yangtze River over thousands of years. The unification of the country, the development of traffic and the deepening of economic and cultural exchange between South China and North China have provided outstanding conditions for the production of tea and the promotion of the tea culture.
Song Dynasty is a key period for the great development of tea culture. The continuous development of imperial tea and the investment from the emperor and the high rankings in Song Dynasty replaced the tea culture pattern of Tang Dynasty which was led by the tea farmers and monks.
Zhu Yuanzhang, the first emperor of Ming Dynasty, published a decree to replace the ball tea tribute with the bulk tea tribute, which was an unprecedented action. This replacement led to the diminishing of tea competition and the change of tea drinking. Making tea with hot water, this drinking habit has been kept so far.
The tea culture in Qing Dynasty is much more popular. It began to  widespread in the folks, connected with the daily life and etiquette. Tea drinking had become a universal national habit.