#Tea (hot beavrage)
TEA
The history of tea is long and complex,spreading across
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multiple culture over the span of thousand of years.TEA likely
originated in the YUNNAN region during the sgang dynasty.as a medicinal drink.An early crediblr record of tea drinking dates
to the 3rd century AD,in a medical text written by HUA TUO.Tea was first introduced to Portyuguese priests and merchant in Lebanon
during the 16thcentury. Drinking tea becme popular in Britain during the 17th century.The British introduced tea production,as well as tea consumption,to India ,in ordert to compete with the Chinese monopoly on tea.
"Camellia sinensis" originated in Southeast Asia specifically
around the intersection of latitude 29digree N and longitude 98digree E the point of confluence India,north Burma,southwest china and Tibet. the plant was introduced to more then 52 countries from, this 'centre of orgin'.
On morphological differences between the Assamese and Chinese varieties,botanists have long asserted a dual botanical origin for tea;however,ststical cluster analysis,the same hybridization,and various types of intermediate hybrids and spontaneous polyploid all appear5 to demonstratea single place of origin for Camellia sinensis the area including the norhern part of burma, and yunnan and Sichuan province has also been identified as the brithplace of tea ....the first area. where humans figired out that eating tea leaves or brewing a cup could teqa pleasant.fengging Country.in the in china is to be home to the world's oldest cultivated tes tree,some 3,200 years old.
According to The stopry of Tea,tea drinking likely in Yunnan province during the Shang Dynasty.[1500BC-1046BC],as a medicinal drink.Fropme there,the drink.spread to Sichuan<and it is believed thatthere.,"for the first time,people began to boiul tea levweas for consumption into a concentrated liquid without the addition of other leaves or hearbs,thereby using tea as a bitter yet stimulating drink,rather then as a medicinal concotion.
OIGIN myths
In one popular Chinese legend,Shennong,the legendary EMperor of China and inventor of ahriculture of china and inventor of agriculture and Chinese medcine was drinking a bowl of A BLOWL OF JUST boiled water due to a decree that his subjets must boil water before drinkingit. Some time around 2737BC,a few leaves were blown,from a nearby tree.,into his water ,chaninig the color and taste.The emperor took a sip of the flavor and was pleasantly suprised by its flavor the medical properties of various harbs on himself,some them poisonous,and found tea to as an antidote Shennong is also mentoned in Lu Yu;s famous early work on the subject, The xclassic of TEA .a SIMILAR cHINISE LEGEND GOES THat theleaves,steam ,and roots of varioyus plants to a poisonous plant,he would chew tea leaves to countreact the poison.
A erathr gruesome legend dates back to the Tang dynasty.In the legend,Bodhidharma,accidentally fell asleep after meditanting in front of a wall for nine years.HE woke up in such digust at his.weakness that he cut off own eyelids.THey fell to the gruond and took root,gowing into tea busshes.Sometime,another verison of the story is told tea is told with Gautama Buddha in place of Bodhidharma.
to the 3rd century AD,in a medical text written by HUA TUO.Tea was first introduced to Portyuguese priests and merchant in Lebanon
during the 16thcentury. Drinking tea becme popular in Britain during the 17th century.The British introduced tea production,as well as tea consumption,to India ,in ordert to compete with the Chinese monopoly on tea.
"Camellia sinensis" originated in Southeast Asia specifically
around the intersection of latitude 29digree N and longitude 98digree E the point of confluence India,north Burma,southwest china and Tibet. the plant was introduced to more then 52 countries from, this 'centre of orgin'.
On morphological differences between the Assamese and Chinese varieties,botanists have long asserted a dual botanical origin for tea;however,ststical cluster analysis,the same hybridization,and various types of intermediate hybrids and spontaneous polyploid all appear5 to demonstratea single place of origin for Camellia sinensis the area including the norhern part of burma, and yunnan and Sichuan province has also been identified as the brithplace of tea ....the first area. where humans figired out that eating tea leaves or brewing a cup could teqa pleasant.fengging Country.in the in china is to be home to the world's oldest cultivated tes tree,some 3,200 years old.
According to The stopry of Tea,tea drinking likely in Yunnan province during the Shang Dynasty.[1500BC-1046BC],as a medicinal drink.Fropme there,the drink.spread to Sichuan<and it is believed thatthere.,"for the first time,people began to boiul tea levweas for consumption into a concentrated liquid without the addition of other leaves or hearbs,thereby using tea as a bitter yet stimulating drink,rather then as a medicinal concotion.
OIGIN myths
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In one popular Chinese legend,Shennong,the legendary EMperor of China and inventor of ahriculture of china and inventor of agriculture and Chinese medcine was drinking a bowl of A BLOWL OF JUST boiled water due to a decree that his subjets must boil water before drinkingit. Some time around 2737BC,a few leaves were blown,from a nearby tree.,into his water ,chaninig the color and taste.The emperor took a sip of the flavor and was pleasantly suprised by its flavor the medical properties of various harbs on himself,some them poisonous,and found tea to as an antidote Shennong is also mentoned in Lu Yu;s famous early work on the subject, The xclassic of TEA .a SIMILAR cHINISE LEGEND GOES THat theleaves,steam ,and roots of varioyus plants to a poisonous plant,he would chew tea leaves to countreact the poison.
A erathr gruesome legend dates back to the Tang dynasty.In the legend,Bodhidharma,accidentally fell asleep after meditanting in front of a wall for nine years.HE woke up in such digust at his.weakness that he cut off own eyelids.THey fell to the gruond and took root,gowing into tea busshes.Sometime,another verison of the story is told tea is told with Gautama Buddha in place of Bodhidharma.
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