INGLES II

Creation Myths

in one popular Chinese legend Shennong, the legendary Emperor of China, (inventor/invention) of agriculture and Chinese medicine, was on (journey/journal) about five thousand years ago. The emperor, known for his wisdom in the ways of (science/scientist), believed that the (safety/safest) way to drink water was by first boiling it. One day he noticed some leaves had fallen into his boiling water. The ever inquisitive and (curious/curiosity) monarch took a sip of the brew and was pleasantly surprised by its flavor and its restorative (property/properties). Variant of the legend tells that the emperor (tried/proved) medical properties of various herbs on himself, some of them poisonous, and found tea works as an antidote.(Shennong is also mentioned in Lu Yu's Cha Jing, famous early work on the subject.

A Chinese legend, which spread along with Buddhism, Bodhidharma is credited with discovery of tea. Bodhidharma, a semi-legendary Buddhist monk, (founder/found) of the Chan School of Buddhism, journeyed to China. He became angered because he was falling (sleep/asleep) during meditation, so he (cut off/cutting) his eyelids. Tea bushes sprung from the spot where his eyelids (hit/hitting) the ground. Sometimes. the second story is retold with Gautama Buddha in place of Bodhidharma. In anoter variant of the first mentioned myth, Guatama Budda discovered tea when some leaves had fallen into boiling wáter.

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