I Drank Tea For The First Time
After searching the land
For curative, palliative, preventive
Drinkables for health and for pleasure,
I sampled 72 plants a day
Some days poisoning myself
72 times.
On one occasion
I was lying on my back in the brush
Having taken a poisonous plant,
My mouth open and gasping
A potion dripped from a bush
Into my mouth and saved me.
From that plant
We make
Tea.
It restored me
And protects me from all contamination.
I am Emperor Shen-nung.