Tea culture is very important in people's life in China. Tea was used as a tribute to the king of Wu. In the late primitive commune, tea became an exchange of goods. During the Warring States period, tea had a certain scale.

Tea was recorded in the Book of Songs in the pre-Qin period. Like the Han Dynasty, tea has become a special tonic for Buddhism. In Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, there was a trend of drinking tea. In the Sui Dynasty, people drinking tea became a common phenomenon.

In the Tang Dynasty, the tea industry flourished, and tea became "a day that no one can live without". Teahouses, tea parties, tea parties appear, and guests are invited to drink tea. Fighting tea and tribute tea were popular in Song Dynasty.

Tea drinking in China began in the Han Dynasty and prevailed in the Tang Dynasty. Before the Tang Dynasty, drinking tea, Lu Yu's tea classic volume "Drink of Six Teas" was a general statement, saying: "Tea is a kind of drink, which originated from Shennong and was heard in Duke Zhou of Lu. Yan Ying in Qi, Han You, Jin You, Liu Kun, Zhang Zai, Yuan Zunan, Xie An and Zuo Si all drink. "

In the Han Dynasty, tea became a special tonic for Buddhist meditation. During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, there was an atmosphere of drinking tea. During the Sui Dynasty, the whole people generally drank tea. In the Tang Dynasty, the tea industry flourished, and tea became "a person can't live without tea for a day". Teahouses, tea banquets and tea parties appeared to encourage guests to offer tea. Fighting tea, tribute tea and gift tea were popular in Song Dynasty.

In the Qing Dynasty, Quyi entered the teahouse and the foreign trade of tea developed. Tea culture was born with the emergence of commodity economy and the formation of urban culture. The tea culture in history pays attention to cultural ideology, elegance, poetry, painting and calligraphy, drinking tea, singing and dancing. In the process of its formation and development, tea culture has integrated the philosophical colors of Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism, evolved into the customs and habits of all ethnic groups, and become an integral part of excellent traditional culture and a unique cultural model.

Lu Yu's Tea Classic holds that drinking tea originated from Shennong's family, but the Book of Food Classic is a fake book, which is well known and not credible. Erya has a saying "bitter tea". The world regards Erya as the work of Duke Zhou. It is wrong to think that drinking tea began in the Duke of Zhou, but I don't know that Erya was not written by Duke of Zhou.