What is true of tea in the Tang dynasty?
According to legend, tea was discovered in China more than four thousand years ago, when leaves from a wild tree blew into a pot of boiling water. Whatever the truth of the story, tea was certainly being drunk as medicine during the Han dynasty. By the Tang dynasty it had become an everyday drink, and a scholar named Lu Yu wrote the first book devoted to it. Tea reached Europe in the seventeenth century and quickly became fashionable among the wealthy. Because it was heavily taxed, it was also smuggled in large amounts. Only when taxes were lowered did tea become a drink for ordinary families.
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: C. It had become an everyday drink
- Step 1: The passage says that by the Tang dynasty tea had become an everyday drink.
Answer
It had become an everyday drink.
Why not the others: The passage does not say any of the other three.
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