During the Qing Dynasty, the main stream of Chinese tea culture - the spirit of traditional culture of nation began to enter common people's life. Tea house culture and tea customs culture replaced the former elite tea culture. Tea culture penetrated into the city people's daily life and became common customs and a noble national sentiment as it was integrated with traditional etiquette and order of importance and seniority in human relationships.

Spreading in the Qing Dynasty
    Foreign Trade

During the early Qing Dynasty, Chinese tea production developed with surprising rapidity. The tea field area and production volume were increased by a big margin. Chinese tea rapidly entered the world market as a staple trade commodity and once monopolized the whole world tea market.

Then tea entered the Commercial era.