参考答案： Tea is a wonderful beverage originally produced in China. Chinese people began to drink tea more than 4,000 years ago. During the Tang dynasty, Japanese monks introduced tea seeds to Japan, and by combining tea with Zen Buddhism, created the world-famous tea ceremony. In the 17th century, the Dutch took to Europe the Chinese habit of tea drinking, which then became a tradition of the Europeans. In China, the home of tea, drinking tea is still a widespread habit. Over the past several thousand years, tea has been the most favoured drink of the Chinese people. Just as many important events took place in cafes in the West, it is in the tea houses that many important things happened in China.