Just as coffee became a part of daily life in the West, tea became a part of daily life in China. The Chinese tea is broad and profound, and it has a long history. It is said that the Chinese culture is the development of Chinese tea and Chinese tea culture, with the history of more than 5000 years.
Tea plays an important role in Chinese social and emotional life. Tea is always offered to a guest immediately upon entering a Chinese home. Serving a cup of tea is more than a matter of mere politeness. It is a symbol of togetherness, a sharing of something enjoyable, and a way of showing respect to visitors. The Chinese tea Culture includes articles, poems, pictures about tea, the art of making and drinking tea, and some customs about tea.

Tea culture entered its most prosperous ear in Tang and Song Dynasty, and Chinese tea had thus won the status as national beverage. Tea is not only the most widely popular non-intoxicating beverage in the world, but also the medicine. It is found that tea is rich in minerals and vitamins such as Vitamin C and the B vitamins. It contains manganese, magnesium, potassium and fluoride. Tea can refresh and help work efficiently as a thirst quencher and aids digestion of food, which can help to disinfect and alleviate inflammation as well as help urinary output and purge toxine. Tea makes nutrition sense and is good for health since it helps fitness and against cardiovascular diseases. To surprise tea can keep and add the activeness of enzyme (SOD) while withering so that white tea has magic effects on facial, detoxification, reducing fatness and sugar, anti-knub and etc.

China is truly the hometown of tea. All tea used in the world now are from China originally. It is showed that China has tea-shrubs as early as five to six thousand years ago. Tea from China, along with her silk and porcelain, began to be known the world over more than a thousand years ago and has since always been an important Chinese export. Later, this habit was picked up by Japan and other South East Asia countries. Western nations started importing tea from China only in the 17th century. During the late 19th century and early 20th century, tea cultivation became popular in other colonies like Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Malawi, Kenya, etc.

The tea culture plays a role of enriching cultural and leisure life, promoting the development of tea-related economy and trade, and propelling culture exchange between nations. At present more than forty countries in the world grow tea with Asian countries producing 90% of the world's total output. Now the number of tea drinkers in the world is legion and is still on the increase. In the 21st century, tea culture will grow to an even larger scale, involve an even wider range of fields, perform an even stronger function and bring an even closer integration of tradition and modern times which will in turn promote tea culture to an international level.