Abstract: Obesity may occur after long period of disoders in appetite and energy metabolism regulations.Obesity is strongly associated with many diseases.Therefore, searching for the high effective and safe anti-obesity medicine has become the common aspiration of people.Tea, with its putative function of anti-obesity, has attracted more and more attention all over the world.In recent years, tens of literatures were focused on the mechanism of the anti-obesity effects of tea.In this paper, recent progress on tea anti-obesity mechanism was reviewed, including inhibiting the absorption of nutritients, improving lipid metabolism, promoting lipoapoptosis, regulation of obesity-related genes, and a plausible pathway.