History of tea - Wikipedia
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The history of tea spreads across multiple cultures over the span of thousands of years. With the tea plant Camellia sinensis originating from the land between today's northeast India, north Burma, southwest China, and Tibet, one of the earliest tea drinking is dated back to China's Shang dynasty, in which tea was consumed as a medicinal drink. An early credible record of tea drinking dates to ...