Do you like to sit together with your family and drink tea after meals? Recently, " stove-boiled" tea（图炉煮茶）has become a popular activity all around China.
For thousands （A）____ years, tea has been a popular drink in China. Along with firewood, rice, oil. salt, sauce and vinegar. （D）tea is regarded as one of the seven necessary things for life by Chinese people. Since ancient times, Chinese people have been planting, picking, making and drinking tea. Boiling tea is one of the oldest Chinese tea brewing methods（煮沏法）, dating back to（追溯到）the Tang Dynasty（朝代）. Tea leaves were boiled for a long time and sometimes they were cooked together with different kinds of herbs（药草）and fruits. （B）____ people were boiling tea, they could enjoy a quiet time. Later in the Ming Dynasty, a fast and convenient method became popular-steeping （冲泡）.
However, the old method is now becoming popular again among Chinese young people. On the app Xiaohongshu. or Little Red Book. there are over 40, 000 posts（帖子）on the topic of " stove-boiled" tea. They lightly roast （tea leaves before boiling them in a teapot on a stove （炉子）. People sit around the stove in a natural environment and have snacks with their hot tea. Some also wear hanfu as if（C）itcould take them back to those ancient times.
Through " stove-boiled" tea, people can taste a slower and more comfortable life and find their inner （内心的）peace. As is written in one Xiaohongshu post, " It is very relaxing to drink hot tea, feel the wind and chat with best friends. "
