Thailand: A pot of locally grown Chinese green tea, Yun Lai Viewpoint, Pai, northern Thailand. According to oral tradition, tea has been grown in China for more than four millennia. The earliest written accounts of tea making, however, date from around 350 CE, when it first became a drink at the imperial court.

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