During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period more than 2,000 years ago, Bashu was the cradle of tea culture. The real tea ceremony: flourished in the Tang Dynasty and flourished in the Song Dynasty. Four major changes in the history of tea drinking methods: 1, decocting; 2, drinking soup method; 3, grinding and drinking; 4. Whole leaf brewing method. I found you a passage from the Internet. If you are interested, you can have a look: In the Tea Classic written by Lu Yu in the Tang Dynasty, the "tea set" refers to the tools for picking tea, steaming tea, setting, drying, sealing and counting, while the "tea set" refers to pointing fire, boiling tea, baking tea, grinding tea, measuring tea, holding water, taking water, filtering water and counting. It can be seen that the "tea set" in the Tang Dynasty basically has nothing to do with the current tea set, but a part of the "tea set" in the Tang Dynasty is equivalent to the current tea set. The names of "tea set" and "tea set" in the Tang Dynasty continued until the Northern Song Dynasty, and Cai Xiang still called tea drinking utensils "tea sets" when he wrote Tea Records. In the Southern Song Dynasty, when Lao Shen Man 'an wrote "Tea Set", he renamed the tea-drinking utensils that used to be called "tea sets" as "tea sets", which have been in use ever since. China's tea set, from ancient times to Tang and Song Dynasties, is a process of making and perfecting; From the Tang and Song Dynasties to the present, it is basically gradually streamlined, that is, from tea picking, tea making, tea storage, tea making, tea drinking and other utensils to tea drinking utensils. This development law of tea sets is closely related to the evolution of tea drinking methods in China for thousands of years, that is, the method of decoction-soup-brewing-soaking. Fried tea is the earliest method of drinking tea. In primitive society, when people found that the leaves of tea trees were non-toxic and edible, they ate tea. This is purely to fill the stomach, not to enjoy the color, fragrance and taste of tea, so it is not a tea drink. When people found that tea can not only relieve summer heat and quench thirst, but also cheer up the spirit and treat many diseases, tea began to be separated from food. Boiling tea juice to cure diseases is the first stage of drinking tea. Drinking soup is the second stage of drinking tea. From the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to the Han Dynasty, tea changed from medicine to drinking. The drinking method at that time, as Guo Pu said in Er Ya Zhu, was that tea "can be boiled into soup to drink", that is to say, millet and spices should be added to make porridge when cooking tea. In the Tang Dynasty, this drinking method was still in use. In the two stages of boiling and drinking soup, agricultural civilization is strong, China tea culture has not yet formed, and tea picking utensils are more important, while tea making and drinking utensils are mostly mixed. Because tea set is in the stage of germination and slow development, tea set culture is in the hazy stage. Brewing is the third stage of drinking tea. The method of grinding and drinking appeared in the Three Kingdoms period, prevailed in the Tang Dynasty and flourished in the Song Dynasty. During the Three Kingdoms period, wei ren Zhang Yi recorded in Guangya: "Jing and Ba picked leaves to make cakes. Old Ye Man, when the cake is ready, paste it with rice. To cook tea, first roast it red, mash it, put it in porcelain, cover it with soup, make it with onion, ginger and orange má o, and stay awake after drinking it. " It is very clear here that the tea collected at that time should be made into cakes first, then roasted when drinking, pounded into powder and boiled. This is basically the same as drinking brick tea today. But at this time, the tea brewed with soup still needs to be mixed with onion, ginger and orange, which shows the trace of the transition from drinking soup to brewing and drinking. In the Tang Dynasty, Lu Yu opposed adding other spices to tea and stressed that tea should be tasted with its original flavor. Just add salt when frying tea, but it is required that "the taste of tea cannot be taken away". Pure tea brewing is called "green tea" by the Tang people. In the Song Dynasty, tea was mainly brewed, and the way of drinking soup was rarely seen except in remote places. From the popular "tea-frying method" in the Tang Dynasty to the popular "tea-ordering method" in the Song Dynasty, we can also see the gradual establishment of the grinding and drinking method. Mature tea-making methods involve complicated procedures such as picking tea, making tea, storing tea, making tea and drinking tea. There are many tea sets naturally, and the division of labor is very specific, and the use is very particular. At this point, tea culture and tea set culture have formed and reached a peak. Soaking is the fourth stage of tea drinking, which can be called whole leaf brewing. This method is to collect tea buds in spring, bake them and make loose tea, and brew them with whole leaves when drinking. Loose tea is of good quality and tastes great. Fried green tea has existed since the Tang Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, the main method of making tea was to make loose tea, and the drinking method was basically whole leaf brewing. This is the same as the popular tea drinking method today. The soaking method emphasizes the function of the tea drinking process itself, and the tea set made by the previous brewing method naturally saves a lot. The gradual popularity of tea making is a process of gradual deepening of tea culture and tea set culture in China. Historically, from ancient times to the Tang and Song Dynasties, the appearance and gradual improvement of tea sets reflected social progress. The complexity of tea sets in Tang and Song Dynasties is a reflection of the highly developed material civilization and spiritual civilization in ancient China. After the Tang and Song Dynasties, the gradual simplification of tea set is the result of more and more fine social division of labor, faster and faster pace of life, more and more convenient lifestyle, more and more common tea drinking behavior and more frequent interpersonal communication, which is also a reflection of social progress.