What legends are associated with the origin of tea?

According to Chinese legend, once a few leaves of the twigs burning under the pot fell into the water and gave a delicious flavour.

According to the Indian legend, Bodhidharma cut off his eyelids because he felt sleepy during meditation and threw them on the earth. Ten tea plants grew out of those eyelids. When he boiled them in water and drunk that water, it banished his sleep.

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