After water, tea is the most popular beverage on earth. It is consumed in large quantities all over the world, but is likely most popular in Asia. Tea was even discovered in Asia, and most of the worlds tea is still grown in this part of the world, though India is a close second.
Chinese mythology dates the discovery of tea back to 2737 BC, when, supposedly, the Chinese Emperor Shen Nung was drinking boiled water under a tree, when a leaf from this tree dropped into his cup. The Emperor decided to try the concoction and found that he loved it. He ordered a large planting of tea trees and a new crop was born.
Its not certain if this story is true, historians have found stories in China about tea that date back to the third century AD, and there are ads for tea in China that date back to 780 AD, when Chinese tea merchants commissioned the writer Lu Yu to write a book about tea. The book was written to help boost tea sales. As early as 805 AD, the Zen Buddhist missionaries in Japan were using tea as a medicine, because they believed that it enhanced ones ability to meditate.
Throughout Asian history, tea has been used as medicinal purposes. Since the first...
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