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What is the Chinese legend about the origin of tea?
Yan Emperor Shen Nong era (4094 B.C. ~ 3574 B.C.) Who was Shen Nong? Shen Nong is one of the ancient Chinese Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors’ Yan Emperor and he discovered the tea. Tea plays a vital role in Chinese life since ancient times. Tea has existed in China more than 5000 years. Yan Emperor Shen Nong According to the Qing Dynasty thirty-four years of Qianlong (1769) March Wenyuange photocopy of "Siku Quanshu · Gezhi Jingyuan" Volume 021 recorded, "Shen Nong tasted hundreds of herbs, encounter 70 kinds of poisonous every day, and tea is the detoxification for him"....