Ever since human beings have drinking habits, the container for holding the tea began to appear and constantly updated, the oldest tea box is in fact not the box but the pottery, Xia and Shang Dynasties have appeared; With the material wealth of the rich human life improve the level, slowly emerged that a number of tools to replace humans handmade, especially after the emergence of iron production tools have been greatly enriched in the Spring and Autumn Period, people with iron casting after the emergence of farming tools iron weapons and carpentry iron tools, so wooden tea box began to appear on China's human history. At that time, long-term caddy is specially produced tea bloom, usually appear in the aristocratic elite home appliances as a special use.
       As the tea from the tea room and the mountains, the first contact with the tea or the civilian population, so the tea box slowly appear in civilian homes, the only civilian homes in relatively Chaye work is not detailed enough, even with the use of bamboo, etc., as tea box and so on; With the continuous development of society Chaye style modeling, production materials are also constantly updated progress, tea Ming and Qing Dynasties appeared to do silk-lined, wood attached embryo outside the practice, wooden body also began to appear sculpture, painting , paint and other craft this event also appeared bulk ceramic tea pot for distribution in the tea box, a typical figure: Empress Dowager Cixi, drink Longjing summer and winter, and to drink Pu'er tea caddy considerable stress.
       Chaye is a great development in modern and contemporary, while developing Chaye benefited to some extent on the behavior of Chinese culture gift etiquette derived. In modern times, since there is a great material wealth to get the progress of advanced equipment as well as the late Qing Dynasty and the Ming government there a lot of gifts to promote the flow of tea has been elevated to a certain height, and the caddy also will correspondingly been considerable development . Chaye development in the true sense of the contemporary appear after the reform and opening up, under the guidance of the principle of taking economic construction as the center, the life of the material life of the people has been increasing, while the improvement of living standards to promote the improvement of people's lifestyles, Chaye get at this stage of the rapid progress in the country there has been a lot of tea box production clusters: Guangdong as the center of the southern high-grade tea box cluster, centered on southeastern Zhejiang Tea and production clusters, centered in Shandong The solid wood tea box clustering. And Chaye at home and abroad to form a huge production and consumption market, the current market to gift Chaye Chaye mainly focus on tea box material environmental protection, environmental protection and the use of materials mix, and the emergence of a process of enrichment, diverse needs resistance, mass customization and other features.