As one of the world’s favorite drinks, tea has become more and more popular. Chinese tea art with its custom was included in intangible cultural heritage lists by UNESCO (联合国教科文组织非物质文化遗产名录) in 2022．

China is the _________ of tea and tea has a long history. It is said that a Chinese ruler called Shen Nong was _________ first person to discover tea as a drink. When a leaf dropped into _________, the taste of the water was changed, and so tea was born. From that moment on, the Chinese began _________ the soul (灵魂) of this special leaf.

It’s known that tea culture gradually _________ normal people’s life in the Tang Dynasty. The people in the Tang Dynasty not only drank tea, _________ ate the tea leaves. That was why the process of tasting tea was _________ “tea eating”. However, the Song people preferred “whisking tea” (点茶). In the Ming Dynasty, tasting tea gradually went back _________ its true nature of “drinking tea”. Later, the tea culture of _________ country finally was blended (融入) into normal families.

Nowadays, making tea around a stove (炉子) is a special way of drinking tea. It __________ already brought a wave of new lifestyle in China.

Tea culture is a kind of sublimation (升华) of tea. In the long river of historical culture, tea combines the characters of the time.

Wang Xiaojun is 12 years old. He lives in the country in Gansu Province. Today is his birthday. His parents prepare a nice dinner for him, but the boy says, “I won’t have the dinner because after the dinner, today is over, and you are leaving for Shenzhen tomorrow. I don’t want to let you go.” It is the first birthday that Wang Xinojun is spending with his parents during the three years. In the past three years, his parents have stayed in Shenzhen and worked to make money. They haven’t seen their son for three years. Tomorrow, they will have to leave home to go to Shenzhen again. Wang is not the only stay-at-home child. There are more than 20 million stay-at-home children facing a lot of problems. Many of them stay with their grandparents. They get less care from their parents. Their parents can’t help them with their studies. The Chinese government now cares about the children very much and is trying to solve their problems.

Peter was the richest in town. Nobody liked him because he was too proud of his money. One day, Peter became blind. Only by doing corneal trans-plant surgery (角膜移植手术) could he see again, but there was no donor (捐献者). Peter had to wait in hospital sadly.

One afternoon, Peter sat in the little square in the front of the hospital. He raised his head to enjoy the sunshine. However, he saw nothing but the whole darkness.

Just as Peter felt hopeless, someone hit him hard all of a sudden. That angered Peter, so he shouted loudly, “Don’t you have eyes? Don’t you see who you hit! I’m Peter!”

The answer was from a little boy, “I’m sorry, sir. I didn’t notice. Please forgive me!”

Peter changed his mind and ordered, “I can forgive you, but you must talk with me!”

The boy began, “How beautiful! The grass is green, the sky is blue, the flowers are coming out everywhere, and the little trees are also very lovely.”

As he was listening, Peter began to envy (忌妒) that boy. Suddenly, he shouted, “Oh! The little boy is so poor, nothing but a pair of eyes! Why do you give him light?”

“You are wrong!” came the voice of a lady. “My son is too poor to have eyes. What he just described is what I told him!” Peter sat in the square silently, tears coming up in his eyes.

Since then, the city charity (慈善机构) would receive a great deal of money every year from the richest person, Peter.