Is Shen Nong history or myth?
What evidence exists to decide if the story of Shen Nongs discovery of the health benefits of green tea leaves is history or myth? Archeological excavations show that human civilization in China in 2737 B. C. was widespread but still neolithic. Buy at AllPosters.com People built houses, rather than living in caves. They fished, farmed, and used quarried stone to grind flour. They made pottery, spun fabric, and made music. They had learned how to grow millet during the Jiahu culture around 7000 B. C., and how to make wine. They traveled widely and carried possessions in carts. They recorded life in pictograms. They had a pictographic system of writing in use since 6000-5000 B. C. as seen in the cliff carvings at Damaidi in Ningxia where 8453 separate individual characters have been identified in 3172 carvings. Though controversial, these pictographs are similar to early written Chinese. So far, there is no confirmation of tea in their writings. At the time of the August One ShenNong and
