Legend has it that more than 4,000 years ago in 2,737 BC, tea was discovered by Chinese Emperor Shennong quiet by chance. A dead leaf had fallen into his drinking water while it was boiling under a tree.
He unwittingly drank it and was so taken by the refreshing effect of the tea leaf that he named it cha (tea in Mandarin). Tea drinking soon spread across the country and became the symbol of Chinese high culture which later travelled to other parts of Asia, Europe and the Americas and Russia. Since ancient times, the Chinese have been using tea to improve their health and to cure illnesses.
BE aware, today there are about 1,500 varieties of tea but only the leaves from the "camella sinensis" species of plants are considered tea.
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