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China is the hometown of tea. Before the Tang Dynasty, Chinese tea was exported by land and sea,first to Japan and Korea, then to India and Central Asia,and in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, to the Arabian Peninsula. In the early period of the 17th century, Chinese tea was exported to Europe,where the upper class started to drink tea. Tea spirit permeates Chinese culture, and throughout the country there are many kinds of tea,teahouses, tea legends, tea artifacts and tea customs. The West Lake in Hangzhou is famous for its excellent green tea; and provinces in southwest China like Yunnan where flie ethnic groups were less affected by foreign cultures still keep tea ceremonies and customs in original tea-growing areas.