According to textual research, the word "tea" was first written as "tea", and the earliest document in which the word "tea" appeared was the Book of Songs. The word "tea" appeared in five places in * * *, and then gradually evolved into the word "tea" today.

The change of the words "tea" and "tea"? There is no tea in the Nine Classics, or it is suspected that there was no tea in ancient times. I didn't know there was no light in the Nine Classics. In ancient times, candles were used as lights. So there is no word tea, not really no tea, but tea is used as tea. Not only does the Nine Classics have no tea characters, but the Banma characters also have no tea characters. Until the Tang Dynasty, a picture of a tea character was arbitrarily restored, thinking it was a tea character, and the pronunciation of tea also changed. Tea, with the same initial sound, reads like a disciple. So is the so-called "who says tea is bitter" in the poem. After the Eastern Han Dynasty, Yinfu edited it. After the Six Dynasties, pronunciation began to change. Although Tang Lu Yu wrote the Book of Tea, although he used the word "tea", Tang Daiyue saw Wang Yuan's inscription on the tablet, but there are still two words of tea, which shows that Tang people have not used all the words of tea. (Xi Shichang's Xi Reading Notes in Qing Dynasty, Volume I) can only be described by the sound reading of tea, and the tea system has changed from Liang Shi to Tang Shi. (Excerpted from Huang Xianfan's A Preliminary Study on the Interpretation of Ancient Books, Guangxi Normal University Press, July 2004,No. 1)? The germination of the word "tea" simplified from "tea" originated in the Han Dynasty. In ancient printing in China, some words of "tea" have been subtracted and changed into the shape of "tea". Not only the font, but also the pronunciation of "tea" was established in the Western Han Dynasty. For example, Chaling in Hunan was once the territory of Liu Xin in the Western Han Dynasty, commonly known as "Tea City", and was one of the subordinate counties of Changsha 13 at that time, and was called "Chaling County". The word "tea" in Yan Shigu's annotation of Han Geography is "tea": loud and rebellious, arrogant and rebellious. This inverted phonetic notation is the pronunciation of the word "tea" now.

Judging from this phenomenon, the pronunciation of the word "tea" was established earlier than that of the word "tea". ? China is vast in territory and abundant in natural resources, with many nationalities and different languages. The same thing has many names, and there are many ways to write the same name. On behalf of the word tea, there are Ming characters. ? There are many names about tea in ancient historical materials. By the middle Tang Dynasty, the sound, shape and meaning of tea had tended to be unified. Later, due to the wide spread of Lu Yu's Tea Classic, the shape of "tea" was further established until today. ? In the ancient literature of China, there are long records about eating tea, and the names are different from place of origin. China's tea spread abroad as early as the Western Han Dynasty. When Emperor Wu sent envoys to zhina Peninsula, he brought with him not only gold, brocade and silk, but also tea. During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, China tea was exported to Turkey together with silk and porcelain. In Yongzhen Garden, Tang Shunzong, the most sincere Zen master in Japan returned to China and brought China's tea seeds back to Japan.