China is the native place of tea. Originally, tea (use) as a kind of medicine instead of a drink. Later as the ancient Chinese people explored further into the features of tea, they separated it herbs (药草)and made it into a kind of drink and (gradual) , it developed into Chinese tea culture.
Records show that the custom of tea drinking, started in the Western Han Dynasty (朝代), became fashion for people with high (society) position during the Wei Dynasty. In the Tang Dynasty it was common (drink) tea. And people tried out even more (way) to drink tea. In the Song Dynasty, tea planting and trade were on the increase and the technique of (make) tea was greatly improved. By the Yuan Dynasty, drinking tea ⑩ (become) something very common in everyday life. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, people drank tea in almost the same way as we do today.