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 NongAccording 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".

Siku Quanshu • Ge Zhi Jing YuanAccording to ancient legend, the Yan Emperor Shen Nong often went to the mountains to collect herbs to help people heal. One day, Shen Nong tasted a poisonous grass when picking medicinal herbs. Suddenly he felt dizzy with a dry tongue. He quickly found a big tree and sat down to rest. At this moment, a gust of wind blew, a few leaves with delicate fragrant fall from the trees, then Shen Nong picked a few leaves on the mouth to chew, unexpectedly, a fragrance arises spontaneously and produces saliva, it elevated his spirits, the discomfort was swept away. Shen Nong felt so strange, so he picked up a few leaves and looked closely. He found that the leaves, veins, and margins of the leaves were different with the common trees. Shen Nong collected some of the leaves and studied it carefully, and later it was called "tea".

Shennong Tasted Hundreds of GrassesThere was a record dating back to Zhou Dynasty (1046-256 BC) about the usage of tea in a Chinese dictionary- Erya (oldest surviving Chinese dictionary). Tea was used to as a medicine to make people stay awake at the beginning, it was still used as a medicine functional plant in Han Dynasty (206 B.C. - 220 A.D.).