It is said that the tea tray was a small invention of the daughter of Chengdu Yin Cui Ning during the Jianzhong period of Emperor Dezong of the Tang Dynasty (780-783). Tea tray was first seen in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the North and South Dynasties began to be popular, after the Tang Dynasty, with the tea drinking style and prevalent. Tang Dynasty calendula mouth is generally shorter, some of the mouth along the rim of the curve for the lotus leaf, quite exquisite; Song and Liao period calendula almost become a fixed attachment to the tea calendula, mouth higher, the middle of the hollow calendula; Ming Dynasty, the mouth of the slightly bulging, there is also a boat-shaped calendula, said the tea boat, the tea boat; Qing Dynasty calendula for the round.
