As one of the world's favorite drinks, tea has become more and more popular. Chinese tea art with its custom was included in intangible cultural heritage lists by UNESCO (联合国教科文组织非物质文化遗 产名录)in 2022.
China is the1 of tea and tea has a long history. It is said that a Chinese ruler called Shen Nong was 2 first person to discover tea as a drink. When a leaf dropped into 3 , the taste of the water was changed, and so tea was born. From that moment on, the Chinese began 4 the soul (灵魂) of this special leaf.
It's known that tea culture gradually 5 normal people's life in the Tang Dynasty. The people in the Tang Dynasty not only drank tea,6 ate the tea leaves. That was why the process of tasting tea was 7 "tea eating". However, the Song people preferred "whisking tea"(点茶) . In the Ming Dynasty, tasting tea gradually went back 8 its true nature of "drinking tea. Later, the tea culture of 9 country finally was blended (融入) into normal families.
Nowadays, making tea around a stove (炉子) is a special way of drinking tea. It 10 already brought a wave of new lifestyle in China
Tea culture is a kind of sublimation (升华) of tea. In the long river of historical culture, tea combines the characters of the time, the nationality and unity.