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Wednesday, 15 July 2015

History of tea: China
















In 2737, the Chinese Emperor Shen Nung discovered tea by accident. As legend has it, the emperor was sitting under a tree and drinking boiled water when a few leaves from a nearby tree fell into his cup. The tree was Camellia Sinensis, and that was the birth of 'tea'.