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Tea in China [Infographic]

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01-03-2021 - Yummy World

Tea In China [Infographic]

Tea is instant wisdom...Just add water!

History

Wild tea bushes grew in southern China, where people first began in the Stone Age to make tea by drying tea leaves and then steeping them in hot water.

Curiosities

• Chinese doctors used to tell sick people to drink tea as a kind of medicine. • People offered tea to guests when they came to their house. • Families that were too poor to buy tea offered their guests hot water. • Tea was a luxury, and mostly men drank it, while women only prepared it.

Han Dynasty (200 BC)

Sui Dynasty (600 AD)

Fifty years later

1600s AD

1700s - 1900s

2000 BC

Sogdian traders brought tea from northern China to the Islamic Empire.

European travelers came to China and imported the tea to Europe.

People in southern China were growing tea bushes on farms.

The British planted tea in India and Kenya.

They conquered South China + they brought tea to northern China.

(+) The part of the curiosities.

Make a luxurious pot of Chinese "ba bao cha" (八宝茶) with 8 ingredients - jasmine tea, ginseng, chrysanthemum, rose buds, rock sugar, longan, red dates and wolfberries.

https://quatr.us/china/history-tea-ancient-china.htm

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