Dear Tom, In your e-mail you asked about tea culture in China. Now I want to let you know of something about it. Tea is native to China and Chinese tea culture has a long history. It plays an important part in Chinese culture. A great many famous poets and writers have written many works in appreciation of tea and about the love for it, among whom was Lu Yu in the Tang Dynasty, who wrote The Classic of Tea, the first book on tea and was regarded as the “Tea Saint”.