The Benefits Of Tea

The Tea that reach America from china inspired new addictions, new trade connections and new forms of luxury, new social critiques and simmering provincial inferiority. Many caffeinated drinks had come before the tea however this was a new drink to the English-speaking world. Nevertheless, this drink did not come without its own problems (50).

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Tea became a mainstream drink in Asia around 100 BCE. It then became a mainstream drink in Europe around 1610 CE.

On the topic of world beverages, there is none such as ubiquitous as tea. Within history, tea has played a large role in many monumental world events, from the American Revolution to the Opium Wars. Though the origin of this bitter, fragrant juice is uncertain, it is known that tea cultivation is rooted in China. Though tea had been known and consumed prior, it was not until the Tang dynasty that a level of artistry surrounded tea was achieved. By the Tang dynasty and up through the Song, tea had developed a rather contradictory identity. To tea-purists such as Lu Yu, tea was an almost spiritual art, closely related to the ideals of Buddhism, to be savored individually in a quest for enlightenment. To many others, tea was a commercial and social drink, the facilitator of social gatherings and a luxury indicator of social rank. This paper will explore the development of these contrasting identities through the unprecedented expansion of the popularity of tea during the Tang and Song eras of China, and its relationship with poetry, religion, and social conventions.

Tea became popular for British royalty because of Catherine of Braganza. Catherine was a devout tea drinker and married Charles II. With that marriage came a dowry that included a chest of tea. This was popular with upper class England because

It also served as a food stuff, until it became a drink. According to Monks ( Buddhist) tea help with meditation, so it play an important part in Buddhism. Tea was used socially, people in both China and Japan, also in England would gather together for tea parties. While at these tea parties, people would have enjoy a cup of tea which helped the mind to stimulate intellectual conversations and debates. People drank a lot of tea because it help prevent waterborne disease. It served as a the main trade for China and Japan.

The origins of tea are rooted in China (Food Timeline). According to legend, the beneficial properties of tea were first discovered by the Emperor Shen Nung in the year 2737 B.C. He drank only boiled water for hygienic purposes, and one day while he drank a breeze rustled the branches of a tree and a few leaves fell into his cup. Creating the first cup of tea. It is challenging to know whether or not the emperor was real or just a part of the spiritual and cultural development of ancient China. China was not unified as an empire until the third century, so it is unlikely emperors existed back then. One thing that is known is that tea was popular in China thousands of years ago. The first written reference of tea is in the third century B.C. A famous surgeon recommended the beverage to patients to increase concentration and alertness. Tea was first written as “tu” in ancient texts. This caused a good deal of confusion because the same Chinese character was used for both tea and Chinese sow thistles. Between 206 B.C. and A.D. 220 a Han Dynasty emperor ruled that when referring to tea, the characters should be pronounced as “cha”. From here on, tracing tea’s history became easier because tea acquired its own individual character (Food Timeline).

They would work late hours, and become more susceptible to diseases. Thankfully, tea benefitted them in both of those ways; it would keep the workers awake, while helping to prevent diseases. Tea has caffeine in it, and it also has some medicinal qualities along with antibiotic factors to help prevent sickness. Tea served to be a profitable trade, which helped larger companies. Certain companies, such as the British East India Company, had a say in government due to its wealth. Officials of the British East India Company were so wealthy, they could just buy their way into

Carp stated that around the early 1580’s, Europeans adopted tea for the first time.Coffee and chocolate were also introduced to Europe around this time. These beverages did not make an impact right away because the taste was very bitter. The beverages started to “boom” once sugar was added. The plant, camelia sinensis, produces all pure tea. All the tea that Americans and Europeans consumed came from Chinese soil until the nineteenth. Ever since, India, has the most well-known varieties of tea.

Attention getter: In the East tea has always been looked at as playing a major role in having good health, happiness, and wisdom, and it has now begun to gain more attention from researchers here in the West.

Tea is the agricultural product of the leaves, leaf buds, and internodes of various cultivars and sub-varieties of the Camellia sinuses plant, processed and cured using various methods (Tea Guardian, 2010). "Tea" also refers to the aromatic beverage prepared from the cured leaves by combination with hot or boiling water, and is the common name for the Camellia sinuses plant itself. After water, tea is the most widely consumed beverage in the world. It has a cooling, slightly bitter, astringent flavor which many enjoy (Penelope Ody, 2000).

During the earlier Northern and Southern dynasties (420–589), and perhaps even earlier, the drinking of tea (Camellia sinensis) became popular in southern China. Tea was viewed then as a beverage of tasteful pleasure and with pharmacological purpose as well.[202] During the Tang dynasty, tea became synonymous with everything sophisticated in society. The poet Lu Tong (790–835) devoted most of his poetry to his love of tea. The 8th-century author Lu Yu (known as the Sage of Tea)

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