喝茶,是毛主席的一大嗜好,并对茶叶历史和茶文化也十分熟稔。他说,最早种茶、饮茶都在中国,大约在9世纪首先传入日本,后来才传到欧洲、印度。他也知道唐朝陆羽著的《茶经》是世界上第一部茶的专门著作,常说“这也是中国人对世界做的贡献”。毛主席还把茶作为“药”来看待,生前曾对他的保健医生徐涛这样说:“我的生活里有四味药: Drinking tea is a major hobby for Chairman Mao and is also very familiar with tea history and tea culture. He said that the earliest tea growing and drinking tea were all in China. They were first introduced to Japan in about the 9th century and later spread to Europe and India. He also knew that the Book of Songs by Lu Yu in the Tang Dynasty was the first specialized tea book in the world and often said that ”this is also the Chinese contribution to the world.“ Chairman Mao also treats tea as a ”medicine“. Before his death, Xu Tao, a health care practitioner, said: ”There are four kinds of herbs in my life: