China is the initial place of tea and also the fist country to discover the tea tree and make use of it. Early back to primitive society, tea has been used as medicine. Tea has been found in the record documents of China’ Zhou dynasty about 1100BC. People began to drink tea in their daily life and the appeared the market of tea in 100BC. Drinking tea became a fashion in Xijin dynasty and Tang dynasty as Buddhism came to China and became more and more popular. “Tea Jing” written by Lu Yu in 760AD was the first book of tea in the world, which promote the development of tea culture.

It dated very early since tea was delivered to other country. Particularly, since 1700s, the Chinese tea has largely expended into the world market, providing tea to meet the requirement of the world people. Tea has become the big sale of Chinese traditional commodity.

Nowadays, tea production is all over the world including five continents and more than fifty countries and regions. However, China is truly the birth place of tea and tea drinking where the tea culture spreads to the world. China was called the motherland of tea by ancient people.

The Chinese tea still has its characteristics even today, such as: long history, large plant area, large variety, rich tea culture. Through our introduction of words and pictures, the reader can fully and easily get the general introduction of Chinese tea.
The reason for us to publicise our tea culture in words and pictures on the Internet, and also set the “World Tea Net” is that we want to build up a stage for the business and culture of tea in order to have a more convenient opportunity to communicate with friends all over the world. This should be a place for tasting tea, talking about the tea, selling and buying the tea and promoting the development of the tea.

Part of the materials and pictures of “World Tea Net” are from a series of books “ China-Motherland of tea”. We sincerely show our appreciation!

World Tea Net—the tea net of all the human being’s own