It is said that during the Jin Dynasty, Ge Hong lived in Putuo Mountain and sat alone in a cave well. He used the water from the "Immortal Well" to boil Putuo tea, drank the tea to relieve sleepiness, stayed up all night, and wrote a book with the medicine. The remains of Xianrenjing still exist today. Putuo tea has been closely related to Taoism since its birth. The name "Buddha Tea" is relatively late, and the specific age cannot be verified. Tracing back to the development of "Buddha Tea" in Putuo Mountain, it has roughly gone through various historical periods since the prosperous Tang Dynasty in China. According to the "Putuo County Chronicle", Putuo Mountain has a long history of tea production, which flourished in the Song Dynasty. The Song Dynasty was an important period in Chinese history when tea culture was highly developed and rapidly matured. Temple tea developed greatly.

Beginning in the third year of Yuanfeng (1080), the reign of Emperor Shenzong of the Song Dynasty, the Central Dynasty began to take into account the food problem of the monks on Mount Putuo. In order to express their piety to Guanyin, the emperor not only sent people for pilgrimage, but also continued to Allocate surrounding acres of land for monks. According to historical records, from the seventh year of Jiading in the Song Dynasty (1214) to the fourth year of Taiding in the Yuan Dynasty (1327), the imperial court granted Putuo Temple 3,093 acres of official land and 1,000 acres of mountain land five times. In the eighth year of Chunyou reign of Song Dynasty (1248), Emperor Lizong issued an edict to exempt the whole mountain from rent service. At that time, there were 560 acres of permanent land and 1607 acres of mountain land. In addition to providing food for fasting, part of the monk's field is also used to grow tea. In addition to offering Buddha tea, a small number of Buddhist teas are also used to honor guests.

On March 15, the eighteenth year of Shaoxing (1148), the eighteenth year of Emperor Gaozong of the Southern Song Dynasty, the writer Shi Hao and Cheng Xiufu of Poyang visited Putuo. They inscribed the "Stele Inscription of Baotuo Zen Temple" at the Buddhist temple saying: "Shaoxing Wu Chen March Wang... I went boating from Shenjiamen and hung up my mat in the wind. The next morning, I went to Chaoyin Cave and paid homage to Master Guanyin. When I arrived, I saw nothing but incense sticks and tea. ... A monk pointed out: There is a sinus on the top of the rock, which can be climbed up. When he looked up, the golden light suddenly appeared, and his eyes were clear. Weihao saw that his teeth were white. "Ruyu." Chaoyin Cave is located outside Zizhulin Temple in the southeast of the island. The cliffs on both sides are about 10 meters high and more than 30 meters deep. The cave's feet are inserted into the sea. It is wide on the outside and narrow on the inside. There is a cave on the top of the rock, called "Skylight", where the waves surge day and night. When the spring hits, the sound is like thunder, and when there is strong wind, the waves splash out of the window, like a giant whale spouting water, which is said to be the place where the spirit of Guanyin appears. Shi Hao is also one of the three famous historians of the Southern Song Dynasty (Shi Hao, Shi Miyuan, and Shi Songzhi). He is an upright man. Later, during the Xiaozong period of Song Dynasty, he was famous for his unjust imprisonment of Yue Fei Zhaoxue, a famous anti-jin general. Shi Hao once served as a captain of Chang State in Zhoushan, and his traces were recorded in several chronicles of Mount Putuo. During this visit to the mountain, he and his friend Cheng Xiufu arrived at Chaoyin Cave early in the morning. The cave was deserted and there was nothing to see. Shi Hao burned incense, offered tea and worshiped the Buddha in Chaoyin Cave, and saw only floating flowers. After dinner, under the guidance of the monk, we climbed up to the top of the rock to take a look at the cave. We were lucky enough to see the appearance of Guanyin.

The emperor of the Yuan Dynasty believed in Buddhism. Mount Putuo, as the dojo of Avalokitesvara, had the highest status. The court often sent incense to rice monks and cut off the Tianshan Island of Zhoushan Island and Ningbo for the monks. For example, in the fifth year of Dade in the Yuan Dynasty (1301), Zhang Pengshan, a scholar from Jixian, was ordered to offer incense and was granted more than 4,000 acres of fields, land and mountains to Putuo. One of his companions was Zhao Mengjia, a famous calligrapher at the time. Another example is that in the second year of Huangqing (1313), the Empress Dowager sent an envoy to the mountain to offer incense, and ordered the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Provinces to allocate 868 ingots of banknotes, buy 3 hectares of land, and give it to Baotuo Temple, etc. These official aids were one of the important economic sources for the development of Buddhism in Mount Putuo in history. The monk fields were used to provide food for fasting and to plant tea, and the production of Buddhist tea continued to develop. However, the life of the Yuan Dynasty was very short and no historical materials were left behind. In the Wanli year of Emperor Shenzong of the Ming Dynasty, Hou Jigao, the general of Ningshao, wrote in "A Journey to Butuoluojia Mountain": "It's another three or four miles, and a thousand steps on the sand every day. There is a wise monk who came from Wutai Mountain, Zhuoxi was here, and he made a grass. I used to live in Rihai Chao'an... There was a spring on the top of the mountain behind the nunnery, and Dazhi ordered his disciples to pull it out through bamboos. The tea tastes extremely sweet and refreshing." On September 16, the twenty-fourth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1391), Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, issued an edict to abolish Tuan tea and replace it with tribute leaf tea. Cake tea was replaced by loose leaf tea, and the drinking method of boiling and brewing leaf tea in Tang and Song Dynasties by grinding it into powder became a drinking method of brewing leaf tea with boiling water. The art of tea drinking has undergone epoch-making changes, ushering in the Qing Dynasty through the ages. The source of drinking. People in the Ming Dynasty called this drinking method "extraordinarily simple, full of natural interests, and can be said to bring out the true taste of tea." This passage by Hou Jigao reflects the way of drinking Buddhist tea in the Putuo Mountain temple at that time.

According to the Ming Dynasty scholar Li Rihua's "Purple Tao Xuan Miscellaneous Collection": "The old monk of Putuo left a small white rock tea wrapped in it. The leaves have white velvet and the color is colorless. After drinking it, I felt cool and cool in my heart.

The reputation of modern Putuo Mountain Buddhist tea is expanding day by day, and the production area and output are also increasing year by year. In 1984, there were only 2 hectares of tea garden, which expanded to 24 hectares in 1991. In 1992, the tea garden area expanded to 33.3 hectares, and the output of Buddhist tea reached 2,800 kilograms. The sales market has spread to large and medium-sized cities in Europe and China.

The local government of Putuo has always developed and expanded Buddhist tea as a major industry of benefit agriculture. It has successively established the Putuo Tea Association and the Buddhist Tea Culture Research Association, and also registered the origin certification trademark of Putuo Buddha Tea. Through active The implementation of the Putuo Buddha tea famous brand strategy has effectively promoted the development of tea specialty industries. At the same time, using the construction of Buddhist tea culture as a carrier, it actively participated in various tea cultural festivals, trade fairs, agricultural expos, etc., and formed a professional Buddhist tea performance team to comprehensively promote the Buddhist tea culture of Putuo Mountain and deepen its understanding of Putuo Mountain. Special research on the history and culture of Buddhist tea, and the development of the cultural heritage of Buddhist tea in Putuo Mountain.