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Feb 25, 2021
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11th century BCE
POET-TEA 11th-7th century BCE
Tea appears in the Shijing (‘Book of Songs’) poetry collection of 305 poems, possibly compiled by Confucius.
A NEW SIGN FOR TEA 121 CE
Scholar Xu Shen includes the seal script for ‘tea’ in the Shuowen Jiezi dictionary, presented to the Han emperor, An (r.106-125), by his son.
THE TANG OF TEA
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