China is the home of ______. It has more than 4,000 years’ history. People throughout China drink tea daily. ____ the three major drinks-tea, coffee and cocoa, tea is drunk by the largest ____ of people in the world. Tea from China, along ___ silk and porcelain, began to be known by the world over a thousand years ago and has been an important Chinese export ___.

Tea leaves ___ mainly in the area south of the Yangtze River, in the provinces of Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Fujian, because of the mild ____ and rich soil there. Longjing, Oolong, Pu’er and Tieguanyin are all ____ kinds of tea.

Over the past centuries, Chinese people ____ their unique tea culture. The tea culture includes tea planting, tea-leaf picking, tea making and so on. Tea is ____ a popular topic which is often mentioned in dances, songs, poems and novels.