The history of tea and origin on tea begins with the fairly certain story of discovery by Shen Nong, Chinese emperor and herbalist, in approximately 2737 B.
It is told that the emperor liked his drinking water boiled before he drank it so it would be clean, so that is what his servants did.
One day, on a trip to a distant region, he and his army stopped to rest.
A servant began boiling water for him to drink, and a dead leaf from the wild tea bush fell into the water.
It turned a brownish colo.
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