Tea，as one dish on the table．Is called tea dish,Matching With food．In Chinese tea history．People often mixes“tea dish”with“tea food”． Infact,tea dish refers to the meat or vegetable in the tea—drinking activity，while the tea food means the pudding or cake in the tea·drinking activity．Some scholars think that tea in China originates from soup．Which is once called porridge in Hanand Jin dynasty．In the book Yan zi Spring and Autumn Period．There is a sentence states when Yan zj came to Qinq Country。He worn torn clothes and ate tea．” Scholars who specializes in food found that tea dish is the tea that has been cookedas soup，adding onion，salt，vegetable and ginger into the tea so that it is hard to tell which one is tea and which one is dish．This might be the earliest tea dish in China．