【正文】 Time goes by as the light, with the evolution of tea drinking history, we can see that although the difference of tea drinking history exist in both china and the west, but the tea culture also present some similarities: and western people are both the first to realize and use the therapeutic value of tea, started drinking, and gradually developed tea into a mon drink. Tea may help promote digestion with the aromatics. We therefore can say tea has great effect on many of the ethnic minorities in China who live mainly on meat . A popular old saying says, Rather go without salt for three days than without tea for a single day. Tea with various vitamins in it can help smokers discharge nicotine out of the body. Moreover, strong tea may prove to be a sobering pickmeup when people are over drinked. 2. Tea has relationship with many aspects of social life. Generally speaking, the use of something and the formation of a custom started from the mon people, while a group of scholars surprisingly take tea as a drink at first. Zhu GeLiang, prime minister of the state of Shu during the three kingdoms period (), is known to almost every household. His wisdom and civil and military abilities are still respected by later generations. Tradition says that Zhu GeLiang popularized tea cultivation in Yunnan province and other places. The great literature works about tea is also fruitful. In Britain, Victorian, the queen of Britain specially love tea drinking and make tea popular all around country in that time. 3. People are both in China and western countries take tea as an enjoyment and relax. 4. In many Western countries drinking tea have bee a fashion even though the history of tea drinking between china and the west is different. The whole nation are drinking.B. Differences 1. China and the west both create brilliant tea culture, but there are some differences on the tea culture due to the different cultural background and living habits. Chinese do enjoy tea’s original taste. They favor drinking tea without nothing added, while the western more like the tea served with milk, sugar, ice, some dried fruit and so on. This of course made by different culture background. 2. The ideas about tea are different, the western only regard tea as a drink, the Chinese instead make tea coated with the mysterious flavor of eastern philosophy. According to the Taoists’ channels, which tea helps to dredge. In addition, tea, which could keep people soberminded and quiet, was deemed a necessity to practice Taoism or Buddhism as both advocated sitting in the meditation. Thus, the effect of tea drinking was connected with the oldest oriental philosophy, rules of keeping good health, and an elevation in the spiritual sphere.C. The Fusion of China and Western Tea Culture China first grow, produce, and drink tea in the world. Over the long history of drinking tea, a special Chinese tea culture came into being. So we can say China is the home town of tea. According to the history, the spread of Chinese tea to the west largely experienced three periods. The first period dating back to the Yuan Dynasty, and Marco polo, a famous Italian brought Chinese tea to the west after his travel in China. The second period dates from the Ming Dynasty, (16century) when foreign countries began to import Chinese tea on a small scale . After the travels of Marco polo, the western documents during the reign of emperor Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty officially recorded tea drinking in China. The third period, China exported tea on a large scale and the tea trade gradually expanded. As the beginning of tea was first taken to the west, people did not know it very well. Tradition says a king ever found twin to test whether tea and coffee have bad influence on people’s health. the Twins agreed this, considering that they were likely to survive after the test. Therefore one of them drank several coffees, and the other had several cups of tea every day. The test succeeded eventually. The twin brothers have been very healthy, and the twins who drink tea lived longer. In this case, Chinese tea was finally popularized throughout the western countries. (Wang 201) After many centuries, tea has got a great development in the west. Western People have created some new ways of tea drinking. American iced tea is one of the most popular of them. British black tea with milk or sugar served. Some people also like adds fruit into the flower tea. These tea drinking ways reflected the freedom, openness and emotion of western people. In the 21st century, the tea culture between China and the west are integrating with each other. Some new tea products reflecting the fusion of different culture will be present continually, and instant tea, milky tea and other 。 but the disadvantage is that people just to drink tea for drinking, and don’t rise tea drinking to one of the world39。s tea. But afternoon tea is likely to be just a biscuit or small cake and a mug of tea usually produced using a teabag in the average suburban home. Having some hot or cold, sweet or plain every day is a very pleasant enjoyment. B. American iced tea culture America is known as the Kingdom of coffee, but amazingly half country people like to drink tea and create their own tea culture. The consumption of tea is over one billion US dollars in America annually. IN America most people like to drink iced tea. The United States is a country which pursuing a fastpaced. And the main tea consumption market is possessed by instant tea and iced tea. Instant tea produced in England in 1940, but popular in the United States. Currently, instant tea is very popular in the international market. Americans are interested in drinking cold, this drives them to create a tea iced tea. From iced tea taste, variety, way to take, to drink, to package, to price, etc. , are fully consistent with the times. The convenient, fast,