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The early spread of Chinese tea in Europe was mainly carried out through tea activities in the exploration of the East by multiple subjects such as navigators, missionaries, businessmen, doctors, botanists and nobles. In general, it showed the historical route of smelling, drinking and recognizing tea, of which people’s impression of tea mainly originated from the literature transmission of various travel notes and the imagination of oral transmission. There was once a cognitive bias and misreading of the sanctification and stigmatization of tea, and tea became the symbolic intention for the imagination of the East and collective memory. With the introduction of tea products into Europe, the elite class played a leading role in forming the fashion of tea consumption and the public demand for tea based on physical concerns was growing. As foreign countries have deepened their cognitive needs of Chinese tea, the misreading of tea as a type of foreign culture has gradually been clarified, and has been localized in tea botany, medicine, chemistry and other aspects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]