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The Chinese were the first ones to discover tea and use it for drinking. It all started thousands of years ago, when a man named Shen Nong, the founder of agriculture discovered the plant called tea. He was a sort of plant pioneer. He and his tribe wandered through the forest trying to find plants that were edible. (A legend says that he had see-through belly skin, so that he could see the food as he ate it.) One time when he was eating some plants, he accidently swallowed a poisonous plant. He started to get weak and also very dizzy so he started to look for a cure. He spotted a bush with little green leaves and he thought that it would cure him, so he ate it. After a few moments he felt well again. That's when the Chinese started using tea for drinking.
In 1973, a man was digging a well, when he discovered a life-size terra-cotta soldier! Since then, over six thousand individual terra-cotta soldiers have been found, each with different hair, posture, and facial expressions. Also, there have been several chariots discovered . All of the terra-cotta soldiers were discovered near the emporer's tomb just outside the city of Xian.
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