According to Jacob Bogatin the first tea known to man, was probably white. According to legend, people learned about tea after the Divine Farmer Shen Nun, who came to earth to study the properties of plants and to transmit this knowledge to mankind, have tried several poisonous plants, felt ill and lay down under a tree, from which rolled warmed by the sun and the dew fell into his mouth, after which he fully recovered. Of course, the tree was a tea one and a heated dew was the first in the history of tea infusion. Jacob Bogatin tells us that following the recipes of the Divine Landsman, the Chinese began to dry tea leaves and use them to strengthen and cleanse the body. Today, white tea produced in Sri Lanka, India and Africa, but China, with its centuries of tradition remains the leader in the production of white tea.
In fact, Jacob Bogatin confirms that white tea – it is sun dried buds and upper leaves of the tea bush. Only after studying the properties of dried tea leaves, Chinese researchers began to experiment and invent new ways of production of tea. Chinese emperors prized white tea for the refinement of taste, subtlety of aroma and clarity of mind which arises after tea, and China’s poor, who could not afford the expensive tea, white tea called simple boiled water. White tea has always been a rarity, as it was produced only in the mountains of Fujian Province. Jacob Bogatin says that initially, for the production of white tea used raw customary tea bush, and only in 1885 was derived plant, giving the raw materials exclusively for white tea.
