In such an environment with lush vegetation and rich tea, Shennong is entirely possible to taste a hundred herbs. Later, these tribes moved northward or eastward, and the northwest became the political center of China, and King Shun Di was ceded to Dayu. The political center of clan society has moved to Dengfeng, Henan. A few years ago, Wang Chenggang, which Dayu took over, excavated the ruins of the Xia Dynasty, but it was not smooth sailing. At first, it controlled water along the coast of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, flowed into the sea, and guided Tiaoxi and Yubuxi into Taihu Lake, thus defeating the flood. Later, it was defeated by Fang Feng and gradually went north. Shun Di learned that Dayu had made great contributions to water control, so he made way for him. However, the descendants of "Sanmiao" refused to accept it. Therefore, the Historical Records of the Five Emperors records that "Sanmiao was in chaos in Jianghuai and Jingzhou".
Dayu managed the water in the south of the Yangtze River, and the history books also have evidence: after Qin Shihuang unified China, he once "visited Huiji to sacrifice Dayu", and when Sima Qian was twenty years old, he also "visited Huiji to explore Yu Cave." Therefore, there are Dayu relics in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province today. Yu Xia gave way to Bo Yi, the "general of all insects", but he seized power for his son Xia Qi, and his three sons, Taikang, Zhong Kang and Shao Kang, constantly competed for the throne. In the sixth generation of Yu, the political situation was unified and the national strength was strong. He led his troops south to seek roots, and went to Miao Feng in southern Zhejiang and Jindou in Shandong, so the mountain in this area is called Jue Mountain. At that time, there were some relics in Shannan, such as Wang Xia Village, a city that avoided it. After the Xia dynasty, after the eighth generation, the contract declined, and the contract was destroyed before the Shang dynasty.
It is not difficult to see from the existing historical data that tea production has lasted for several generations in the place where the clan society "Sanmiao family" lived. For example, in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Liu Kun mentioned Anzhou (now Anlu, Hubei Province) in "Tea Purchase"; Lu Tongjun has Youyang (now Huangfengdong, Hubei) and Badong (Fengjie, Sichuan). Wuling (Changde, Hunan) is mentioned in Jingzhou Land Records. Rich in tea. According to the historical data of the Tang Dynasty, Jiangling, Nanzhang, Peng Jing, Anjing and Qionglai in Hubei are rich in tea. Among the eleven states with unknown tea quality mentioned in Lu Yu's Tea Classic, Ezhou is now Wuchang, Hubei. It can be seen that Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica records that "Shennong tasted a hundred herbs and encountered 72 poisons every day, and solved them with tea", which should have happened in the Central Plains of China.
Even from the fact of drinking and selling tea recorded in Wang Bao Tong Yue, before the Han Dynasty, the cause of producing and utilizing tea in eastern Sichuan and western Hubei was quite developed. It is not difficult to imagine how long it will take from wild tea picking to artificial planting of tea trees, from self-sufficiency to "production, supply and marketing". Therefore, our ancestors have a long history of discovering and planting tea.