Chinese tea cuisine

Author: Reading Pictures Era / Country: Mainland China
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Publish Date: 2006-07-01
Features: In the profound and rich tea culture of China, "Chinese Tea Cuisine" is a highly significant branch. In the study of tea history, the legend of Shennong tasting a hundred herbs is a widely circulated and deeply influential ancient tale—"Shennong tasted a hundred herbs and encountered seventy-two poisons daily, but was cured by tea." Shennong used tea to counteract food poisoning, as recorded in books such as the Records of the Grand Historian·Biographies of the Three Sovereigns, the Huainanzi·Training for Diligence, and the Supplementary Meanings of the Herbal Classic. From this, we can appreciate how important tea was as a medicinal and edible substance in that era of low productivity! Incorporating tea into meals preserves the nutritional value of tea while enhancing its therapeutic effects. Therefore, from a health perspective, eating tea is more beneficial than drinking it! Today, modern science has increasingly proven the health benefits of tea. The introduction of tea banquets and tea cuisine is not only a positive response from the tea and culinary worlds to the growing public concern for healthy eating but also a vibrant promotion of our nation's five-thousand-year-old tea culture!