China: Teapot display at a shop near Wenshu Yuan (Wenshu Temple), Chengdu, Sichuan Province. Chengdu, known formerly as Chengtu, is the capital of Sichuan province in Southwest China. In the early 4th century BCE, the 9th Kaiming king of the ancient Shu moved his capital to the city's current location from today's nearby Pixian. 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. Around 800 CE tea seeds were taken to Japan.

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