EXPLANATION OF NAMES OF TREES. 181 
4th century, was very fond of drinking tea (#). He 
used also to set this beverage before his friends who came 
to visit him, but they found it too bitter, and generally 
declined, feigning some indisposition. : 
_ From the above translated ancient records and many 
others, which it would be too long to quote, it appears that 
the use of tea in some parts of China was known to the 
_ Chinese in early times, but it was not before the 6th or 7th 
century that its use as a beverage became common among — 
all classes. The Ch‘a pu, “another treatise on tea, published 
between the 10th and 13th centuries, states that in the | 
_ teign of the Emperor Wen v1 of the Sui [A.D. 589-605] a 
_ Buddhist priest first recommended the boiled ming leaves 
4s a medicine to the Emperor, who suffered from head-ache. 
Kuo Po mentions Se ch‘uan as one of the ancient 
_ Names for tea. According to the ancient dictionaries Ts yiin 
and Lei pien [11th century] this term denoted the late and 
old leaves of the tea-plant. 
~ In the above-mentioned Ch‘a hing, #& she is given as a 
_ Name for tea, referring to the third gathering. There is a 
Passage 35 DT Wy A 38 & BK, the people in the south-west 
of Shu call the tu « she.’ which is attributed to Yane 
Hiuye (Yano CHI-KI), who lived in the Ist century B.C. 
[See Botan, sin., I, 106]. The Shuo wen defines the character 
she as fragrant herb, 
ae Regarding the character #& as a substitute for #%, see 
above, 292, : 
- E-has several volumes devoted to 4%, not in the botanical 
_ portion of the work, but under “ Administration of Goyernment,” 
He Be, and there, under the heading of “ National Economy,” 
‘ £ 8. 284-296. All the names can be found in chapter 288.— 
Sm., 212. : 
308.—Hk #8 Su p'o; Sin. [Comp. also 284]. 
~ Kuo P'o ;—This is the same as the #} #k hu SU, 
