茶叶是我国的特产,世界上最早喝茶和最早种茶的是我们中国人。早在二千年前的东汉时代,四川的茶叶便已当作一种商品向各地转运。当时的茶叶原是当作一种草药吃的,因为它兼有解毒、杀菌、收敛三种作用,在民间应用很广。到了一千五六百年前的南北朝时代,茶叶才成为一种普通的饮料。此后,茶叶的栽培逐渐盛行,到了唐朝,陆羽就根据当时人民栽茶和制茶的一些实际经验,写了一部“茶经”,这本书的刊行大大的普及了采制茶叶的常识,提高了我国人对饮茶的兴趣,使茶业越发兴旺。在宋明以后,我国专论茶叶的著作,很是丰富,这些著作大都根据茶经为蓝本,再结合当地的实际情况辑合而成,都有一定的参考价值。 Tea is our specialty, the earliest tea in the world and the earliest tea growing are our Chinese. As early as the Eastern Han Dynasty two thousand years ago, the tea in Sichuan had been transported as a commodity to various places. At that time, the tea was originally eaten as a kind of herbal medicine because it has both the functions of detoxification, sterilization and astringency, and is widely used in the folk. By the time of Southern and Northern Dynasties fifteen to six hundred years ago, tea became an ordinary drink. Since then, the cultivation of tea gradually prevailed, to the Tang Dynasty, Lu Yu, according to the people’s tea and tea at that time some practical experience, wrote a “tea by”, the publication of this book greatly popularized knowledge of tea production, The interest of our people in drinking tea has been raised and the tea industry has become increasingly prosperous. After the Song and Ming dynasties, the monograph on tea in our country is very rich. Most of these works are based on the scriptures modeled on tea and combined with the actual situation on the ground, all of which have certain reference value.