On Feb 8, 3:13 pm, Chih Ting > wrote:
> Why do you start drinking tea? Some people are attractive by the tea
> aroma and some others believe tea is health and good for their body.
> Today tea has become second popular beverage in the world. (The first
> one is water)
>
> In China, tea was not only aware and used in the long history but also
> tea cultivation and tea plucking. However, why should Chinese start
> drinking tea? How does the formation of drinking habits?
>
> 1, <strong>The sacrifice:</strong> The theory is that the tea and some
> other plant was first used as a sacrifice, and later found tea is
> harmless to eat. In doing so, it was "by the sacrifice, and fresh
> vegetables, and medicinal" eventually become the drink.
>
> 2, <strong>Medicine:</strong> The theory is that the tea "was
> originally used as medicine into the human society." "<a href="http://
> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shennong" target="_blank">Shen Nong Herbs (¯«¹A¥»¯ó¸g)</a> by" wrote: "Shen Nong tasted hundred herbs. One day, he had
>
> seventy- two toxics and then detoxicated by tea.
> <img class="aligncenter" title="Shennong" src="http://
> upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/Shennong3.jpg" alt=""
> width="459" height="426" />
> 3, <strong>Food:</strong> It is very easy to understand that the
> ancient Chinese start eating tea leaf as one kind of vegetables and
> then become drinking it.
>
> 4, <strong>Synchronization:</strong> The first use of tea may be used
> as chewing of food ,as a roast to cook the food and then become
> gradually spice drink.
> Comparison of these methods and accumulation eventually developed into
> the habit of drinking tea.
>
> No matter what theory you agree with, welcome to this wonderful tea
> world. Cheers!

I started by substituting tea, which I could drink without additives,
for coffee, which needed a sweetener and a huge amount of saturated
fat. Toci