Chinese Herbal Tea,Refreshingly Cool and Healthy

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Chinese herbal tea enjoys a long history.It was said that in 306 AD,a doctor of Taoism named Ge Hong in East Jin Dynasty traveled to the south and found that malignant malaria was prevalent due to its warm and humid climate. He studied the medicines that were used to cure diseases caused by dampness and wrote many books targeted at the diseases caused by the climat of south of the Five Ridges. Based on Ge Hong’s medical theory,coupled with their richful experience in the process of long-term prevention of disease, people in the south boiled Chinese medicine that was cold and cool in essence as a drink to relieve the summer heat.This was a summary of the rich experience Tormed in the process of fighting against diseases.Thus the Chinese herbal tea was created in the south,with the profound rich cultural deposits there.The formula and (erms were passed from one generation to another.Stories about Chinese herbal tea were popular both in the south and overseas.

In 1796,the first year of Jiaqing in Qing Dynasty,a doctor named Wang Zebang (A Ji was his pet name)realized that many of the diseases were caused by excessive internal heat in the hot weather when he was treating the patients.As a result,he and his son gathered Chinese herbal medicine from Baiyun Mountain,devoted himself to the relevant study and made a prescription of cool tea as a treatment. It worked well.Once in a year,flu broke out in the South Sea Islands and many caught the flu.Knowing the epidemic,A Ji offered his prescription of the Chinese Herbal Tea and saved many people’s life.In memory of A Ji,the tea was named after him,”Wanglaoji”.This was the story about the earliest cool tea.Later,Wanglaoji was spread to other foreign countries and popular with Chinese people all over the world for more than 170 years.It was truly the pioneer of the drinks that can relieve the internal heat.

For hundreds of years,the numerous cool tea stores in Gungdong,Hong Kong and Macao have formed unique scenery of the south culture.The profound cultural connotation of Chinese herbal tea enables its enduring spreading force,an unmatchable advantage over any other drinks in the world at present.