The book, which opens the new series “China on the Silk Road,” talks about Chinese tea culture as one of the components of ancient Chinese civilization. According to written sources, tea growing began three thousand years ago and the Chinese were the first to discover the properties of tea and began to consume it, and then produce it, passing on this experience from generation to generation. For a long time, methods of growing, storing and making various types of tea have been developed and improved. The book contains the most diverse and interesting information about tea, tea technologies and the art of tea drinking.