China is famous for tea both in the past now. It's said that Chinese tea was invented by . A Chinese called Shen Nong was the first to discover tea as a drink.One day Shen Nong was boiling drinking water over an open fire.Some leaves from a tea plant fell into the water and remained there for some time. It a nice smell so he tasted the brown water. The Chinese are without the ones who best understand the nature of tea.