The tea character is 108, so the tea shou is 108 years old, the tea shou refers to 108 years old, the grass head of the tea character represents twenty, there are eight and ten below, and a brush is an eight, which adds up to 108 years old.
It shows that tea drinkers are relatively long-lived, and there are many records in history that drinking tea can live long, and there is also a saying of "many longevity stars in the tea world" in modern times. The tea industry represented by Mr. Zhang Tianfu is very long-lived. Mr. Zhang Tianfu lived for tea all his life and happened to live 108 years old.
"Tea" and "medicine", tea was first used as medicine in the mainland, called "tea medicine". "Shennong Materia Medica" first recorded the "medicinal use" of tea: "Shennong tasted a hundred herbs, encountered 72 poisons every day, and was solved". In the Han Dynasty, Chinese literati regarded tea as an elixir of immortality. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the medical saint Zhang Zhongjing wrote in "Typhoid Fever": "Tea is effective in curing pus and blood". Hua Tuo, a famous doctor during the Three Kingdoms, said at that time that "bitter tea is good for a long time". Chen Zangji, a great physician of the Tang Dynasty, also said in "The Collection of Materia Medica": "Other medicines are the medicine of various diseases, and tea is the medicine of all diseases."
Tea and health, as early as the seventeenth century, when tea was introduced to Europe, it did not enter food stores, but into pharmacies. In the 80s of the 20th century, the world launched the climax of the study of tea, the nutrients and medicinal components in tea have been continuously discovered, tea polyphenols in tea can inhibit the activity of human cancer cells, and it has been confirmed that tea can prevent cancer, anti-tumor, lower blood lipids and blood sugar.
China's Popular Medicine, the American Time magazine and Time, and Germany's Focus Magazine all recommend tea as the best antioxidant food or nutritional food.
Tea is undoubtedly the greatest beverage in the world. Today, the world drinks 900 billion cups of tea, 600 billion cups of coffee and 100 billion cups of cola a year. Tea is the world's most consumed and popular beverage after water.
It is precisely because of this that tea is so good, it is our treasure, and nothing else can replace it.
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