# Tea, Its Mystery and History

Author: Day, Samuel Phillips, 1833-1916; Loh, Lo Fong [Contributor]

Genre: Category: History - Other

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59170

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Tea%2C+Its+Mystery+and+History+Day&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The Chinese writing is eminently picturesque; and as the language admits of no alphabet, all ideas and objects are conveyed through the medium of groups of characters, each group representing a series of impressions, or opinions. By an ingenious and elaborate combination of strokes, upwards of 40,000 distinct symbols are perfected. This vast array has given rise to the amusing, but erroneous notion, that the Chinese pass their lives in learning to read; so that old and infirm scholars, after having devoted all their days to its accomplishment, have departed this life with the task undone.

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tea-its-mystery-and-history-59170/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tea-its-mystery-and-history-59170/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tea-its-mystery-and-history-59170/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tea-its-mystery-and-history-59170/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tea-its-mystery-and-history-59170/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tea-its-mystery-and-history-59170/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tea-its-mystery-and-history-59170/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tea-its-mystery-and-history-59170/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tea-its-mystery-and-history-59170/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tea-its-mystery-and-history-59170/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tea-its-mystery-and-history-59170/chapters/8/index.md)
- [part x. chap. 13. And to the end that all persons of eminency and](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tea-its-mystery-and-history-59170/chapters/4/index.md)