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-The first appearance of tea in Chinese culture was the legend of Shennong. Shennong was the leader of a ancient Chinese tribe, it was a legend that Shennong, in order to help his own people, taught them how to farm and grow food. Shennong then diligent himself to identify different herbal plants to in order to heal sickness of his people. According to the legend, He use his body to test the effects of unknown herbal plants on human, and eventually discovered tea.

-Wild tea leaf was first planted in the southern-western province of China, as early as Shang Dynasty, 1600 BC (3600 years ago)
-Tea drinking became a unique culture in the Asian countries such as China, Japan and Korea. The practice of tea drinking shaped the above countries and its people into what it is now.

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Shennong in the ancient Chinese myth.

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The Chinese tea-growing regions

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-There are two main types of tea produced during the 1800s, which were green tea and black tea. Two of the major tea producer are China and India. India produce black tea, and china produce both green and black tea. Tea leaf can be collected from tea tree which were grown in tea farms. Tea leafs can be "harvest" two to four times a year. A tea tree can provide a constant growth of tea leaf for decades. After the tea leafs were matured and harvest, they were steamed and dried to produce green tea. Black tea takes extra fermentation and further oxidization.

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Tea plantation in Yunnan (a soulthern Chinese Province)

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The tea leafs need to be handpicked from the tea tree, so the number of labors is a critical part of tea production. During the 1800s, more and more labors, or tea farmers, were required following the increasing demand for tea. The tea-farmers needs to get rid of pesticides and weeds that will damage the growth of tea tree. When the tea leafs are matured and ready to harvest, the tea farmers will separate tea leafs from the tea tree.

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- China had a monopoly for tea so they were able to increase the prices and have high taxes.

- Tea was transported globally in tea chests.

- Turkish merchants bought tea at Chinese borders. The name chai and taste for it were carried across Asia on the silk road toward Iran, and tea tea probabay entered the Mediterranean region Turkic migrations.

-  The secret of how to make porcelain wasn't discovered by others until the 18th century but the products were/are still called "china" because they couldn't be found anywhere else in the world.

- Tea was sold in China but also was very popular in Europe and many other places in the world.

- When tea was transported, it was transported in its plant form because it was more condense and easier to trade about.

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- Tea was a type of green and when people started to make it a clear drink, they needed a pot that is closed to keep the water from steaming and that has a spout to pour from (tea pot).

- Another pot it the ewer pot that was widely traded. It became associated with drinking arabian coffee and moved the silk road toward china where they began to be used to steep tea.

-- Kaolin clay was very popular for ceramics and a technique that involved metal combat to make a beautiful bright blue glaze entered China from Western Europe.

- Tea was brought to Europe overland in tea chests which helped tea drinking spread through all different social classes becoming a custom to life. People also had fancy tea chests in which they stored all of their tea products.

- China such as tea cups, saucers, milk cups and many other products became popular and a luxury to have.

- Industries developed based on the hand making of all of these new, necessary products.