China is the hometown of tea and the birthplace of tea in the world. The "Chinese Tea Classics" contains: In China, the discovery and utilization of tea began in matrilineal clan society, and it should have a history of five or six thousand so far. "It shows that our ancestors began to cultivate and use tea trees more than 3,000 years ago." When it comes to Chinese tea, you have to talk about the top ten famous teas in China. Daming tea? Phoenix Dancong tea is also one of them. Why is Phoenix Dancong ranked among the top ten famous teas? Let's not discuss why? Let you understand its history and development.
Where did the word tea come from?
Initially, the sine symbol of the word tea had two different pronunciations: "ch'a" in Mandarin and Cantonese, the verb "pick", and "t'e" in the southern Fujian dialect used in Xiamen (now Xiamen). ), in southeastern China.
Through the Silk Road by sea or land, tea was found in different parts of the world. The sea route opened by the Dutch starts from the Xiamen area and waits for European countries. Therefore, in these countries, tea is designated as words beginning with "t": tea, tee, tea... because it originated from the southern Fujian dialect pronunciation "t'e".
Countries that use "tch" or "ch" learn about tea through the trade route of silk caravans through the Cantonese word "ch'a". This is the case in Afghanistan, Russia, Central Asian countries, Turkey, Iran, the Middle East, Tibet, and Japan. Tea is introduced into Buddhist countries from China.
The legend of tea
According to Chinese legend, the history of tea began in 2737 BC: Emperor Shennong rested in the shade of a tree to quench his thirst. A breeze moved the branches, and a few leaves fell into the water, stained with amber and a faint fragrance. The emperor tasted the perfume and enjoyed it. That tree was a wild tea tree, and the tea tree was born.
According to Indian legend, His Holiness traveled in China, preaching the Dharma, and stayed awake for nine years. But by the end of the third year, he was so tired that he was going to fall asleep, so he picked a few leaves from the tree and took a bite. This tree is a tea tree. His Holiness was quickly inspired by their invigorating merits, collecting other leaves, drawing strength from their merits, and staying sober during his final journey.
The Japanese legend is a bit different. Prince Bodhidharma walked for three years, exhausted and fell asleep. When he woke up, he was ashamed of his weakness, cut his eyelids and threw them to the ground. Returning to the same place a few years later, he found that where he cast his eyelids, there was a tree that he had never seen before. Perplexed, he tasted the leaves and realized that they had the properties that made him open his eyes. This tree is a tea tree. He followed from the beginning, and then developed the habit of growing tea in the places where the tea ceremony passed.
The world is discovering tea
Regardless of the legend, the tea tree (Camellia Sinensis) seems to have originated in China, probably in the region between Myanmar, northern Vietnam, and China's Yunnan Province. Therefore, the habit of drinking tea first developed in China and then spread to all parts of the world through various trade routes. In China, during the Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD), tea became an everyday drink.
Therefore, tea has appeared in Japan since the 7th century. Since the 15th century, it has become an art of living through Zen Buddhism.
Due to the development of East-West relations, tea was discovered in Europe in the 17th century. In 1610, the Eastern India Company imported tea for the first time, first in the Netherlands, then France and the United Kingdom. British and Dutch immigrants also brought tea to the New World. The economic benefits are so great that there will be a speed race between tea clippers (light sailing ships used to transport tea) on the main sea routes between Europe and the United States. In 1773, the colonists who settled in Boston decided to boycott these imported products with excessively high tariffs and threw a batch of tea from Britain into the sea on December 16th: this behavior was called the "Boston Tea Party."
In the mid-nineteenth century, in order to meet the growing demand from the West, the British developed plantations in India and Ceylon. At the end of the 19th century, tea was established in many Asian countries, first in English-speaking Black Africa, and then in South America. Today, tea has become the world's first drink after water.
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