Tea Is Not Just Tea

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In China, Tea was first introduced to common people as a medicine, and then a food spice, and later a new material for drinking. Tea was later introduced to the royal family, and then to the Buddhist monasteries.

When tea entered into common people's daily life, it became a part of Chinese traditional Daoism; when tea entered into royal family's life, the royal family branded it with Confucianism; when tea entered into the buddhist circle to help buddhist monks meditate, buddhists dissolved Buddhism into tea pots.

So, for Chinese, tea is not just tea, it is a combination of Chinese Daoism, Confucianism, and Buddhism.
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