The History of Tea (Part 1)

In this first episode, we'll explore tea's ancient and humble beginnings in the Ba 巴国 and Shu 蜀国 States in today's Sichuan province. We'll also look at the mythical story of the discovery of tea by the Divine Farmer, Shen Nong. We have a long way to go as far as tea's history is concerned. The teas we love and enjoy today, a few millennia ago in Shen Nong's time, also still had a long way to go. Over the next twenty episodes, we'll look at the history of Chinese tea and how it transformed into a beverage that many of us couldn't do without.