In ancient times, tea was a medicine and was recorded in medical books. It is recorded in the “Shennong Herbal Classic” that “Shennong tasted all kinds of herbs, encountered 72 poisons a day, and got tea to solve them.” It can be seen that the origin of tea should be used for medicinal purposes. In the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties when the custom of tea drinking was just formed, tea making technology was not simple and naive, reflecting that tea making technology had been fully developed before tea became a hobby drink, and this development was completed in the field of medicine. From the beginning of tea as a hobby drink, under the premise of maintaining the biological characteristics of tea, the processing of tea to be more delicious has become the most eye-catching goal of the development of tea technology at this stage.
Tea takes a different path in the world of hobby drinks, although it has parted ways with drugs in concept, but there has been no fundamental change in technology. Since the Han Dynasty, many historical books and ancient medical books have recorded a lot of discussions on the medicinal value of tea and the fitness of drinking tea. According to incomplete statistics, there are 20 of 16 ancient medical books in China that record the health effects of tea, 219 kinds of drug effects, such as refreshing the eyes, quenching thirst and curing dysentery, eliminating greasy and sobering up. “Shennong Herbal Classic” : “tea taste bitter, drink it makes people benefit four, less sleep, light body, bright eyes.” “Shennong Food Classic” said: “tea for a long time to take, people powerful and pleasant.” “Guangya” said: “Jing Ba tea between the cake drink sober, sleepless.” Lu Yu said in “The Book of Tea” : “Tea for use, taste to cold, for drinking the most appropriate, fine practice of frugal people, if hot thirst congeal stuffy, brain pain, eyes astringent, limbs vexed, a hundred sections of discomfort, chatting four or five sipping, and Daigui Ganlu contend also.” “New repair Materia Medica · Mubu” said: “Tea, bitter tea, taste sweet and bitter, slightly cold and non-toxic, the main fistula sore, urine, to phlegm hot thirst, less sleep, spring harvest. Bitter tea, the main qi, small shelter food.” Also known as “lower qi digestion, drink, add dogwood, onion, Jiang Liang.” In the Southern Song Dynasty, Yu Zai’s “Ancient and modern Hebi Matters” recorded: “Tea has the effect of headache, drinking and eating, and not sleeping.” Li Shizhen “Compendium of Materia Medica” : “Tea is bitter and cold, the best way to reduce fire and also cure the poison of alcohol and food, so that people can open their minds and stay awake, this tea is also good.”
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