A Chinese legend on the origins of tea: The emperor Shen Yung was boiling water to drink one day when the leaves of a tea plant were carried into his pot on a gust of wind. He was so pleased with the mixture that he wrote it into a medical treatise, and the drink became popular for medicinal use.

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A Chinese legend on the origins of tea: The emperor Shen Yung was boiling water to drink one day when the leaves of a tea plant were carried into his pot on a gust of wind. He was so pleased with the mixture that he wrote it into a medical treatise, and the drink became popular for medicinal use.

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