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History in a teacup

Did you know that your favorite afternoon pick-me-up or breakfast € â € œcuppaâ has a history Dates back thousands of years? According to legend, the Chinese emperor Shen Nung € â € œdiscoveredâ tea way back in 2737 BC when tea leaves were blown by the wind into the pot with boiling water. Whether it was the Emperor Shen actually boiling in water, that tea tree or not remains to the fact that tea was a part of Chinese medical and nutritional tradition since at least 1700 years. It is first mentioned in a manuscript dating to 340 CE. Sometime around 400, folks started adding other Ingredients to make their tea. Some popular additions have been orange, ginger, spices and onion and garlic.

In 479, discovers Turkish distributor Tea during business hours on the Mongolian border. A little more than a hundred years later, Buddhist monks return to Japan in the year 593 out seeds and leaves take it home, the introduction of the Japanese who Immortality.â € â € œElixir of Japan, but doesnâ € ™ t start their own tea Maintain up almost half a century later. Even then it is very rare, expensive and only for the nobles and high priests.

Between 960 and 1280, Tea-drinking is popular, initially in China and Japan. Tea starts losing its earlier, exotic flavors. Tea is so important, Emperor Hui Tsung, tea that he contests and tea-tasting events holds. Apparently he is so obsessed with tea, he doesnâ € ™ t notice when the takeover in Chin's 1125th Another burglary s such a project by the Mongols ended Teaa € ™ reign as the drink of the aristocracy. Tea drinking is commonplace, even among the poorest peasants. Tea Sets start place of the usual ceramic and drink tea sets and porcelain rituals may have left the rich and noble, as tea became a part of everyday life. In fact, the Mongols WERENA € ™ t big on tea and tea drinking dies in the upper classes, so that € ™ s Because the fate of the masses. In 1386, however, the Mongols fall from power and tea again gains prominence in the Chinese courts.

While the 1400A € ™ s Japanese Zen Buddhist priest Refine Tea-ceremony of his day, and tea takes an elegant, almost religious atmosphere, to an art form in itself.

The 17th, 18th and 19 Century are perhaps the most important time in Teaa € ™ s history, as soon as a player in both world societies and world politics. It isnâ € ™ t until 1589 that Europeans learn to tea, by the writings of the Venetian author. In 1610, The Dutch East India Company began exporting tea from China to Europe. They market it as an exotic medicinal drink. Tea is so expensive that, like buying in early China and Japan to provide only the richest of the aristocracy, tea, and his plays can be used. By 1635, tea drinking has managed to catch in the Dutch court, and in the middle of the 17th Century, are wealthy Dutch merchantsâ € ™ Women's hosting tea parties. Tea is so popular in all social classes, which many fear it will ruin the family. Ministers call for a ban terrible on the fabric.

Tea makes his first appearance in the New World in 1650, when it is imported via the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam. He comes in England in 1657, where she promoted and sold as a healthy beverage. By 1662, when the King takes a bride Dutch drink tea, tea is so popular among the English, that alcohol consumption actually see a decline. Sometime in the 1680A € ™ s, Scotland, is to the delights of tea and 1690 introduced Tea is sold in the British American colonies. In the early 1700a € ™ s controversial practices in Scotland and England, whether tea is too expensive, overburdened excessively dangerous to deliver € ™ s health and whether tea drinking is SocietyA € ™ s cause of moral decay. Tea starts over Britainâ € ™ s coffee houses, to replace coffee as the preferred beverage. The first tea shop was opened by Thomas Twining in London in 1717. Scandalous Way, both men and women, often in the tearoom. After the French and Indian War, Parliament decided to tax the British American colonies, to pay debts pay off incurred during the war. All these taxes, with the exception of the tax on tea, are repealed in 1770. To decide the colonists to boycott tea purchases and in 1773 and 1774, â € œtea parties, â € the most famous of which is in Boston, are held throughout the colonies. Colonists in Philadelphia, New York, Maryland Maine and dump tons of tea in harbors. Parliament responded with coercive measures and the closing of Boston Harbor. They plan to reopen the port, when the English East India Company is reimbursed for the lost tea. The colonists refuse to protest further. These protests eventually develop in the American Revolution.

In the meantime, back in England, tea consumption to rise further. By 1785 11 million pounds of tea to be imported. Tea reached 2 pounds per person in 1797. By 1807 would consumption of 10 pounds per person. This is partly due to the fact that the Parliament once again reduced import duties on tea. Afternoon tea is â € œinventedâ € by the Duchess of Bedford in 1840. Harrodâ € ™ s Department Store in London began with a tea wholesaler in 1849th Tea and the British Empire became synonymous. The 1880â € ™ s, however, America looked to the worldâ € ™ s largest importer of tea.

The twentieth century Tea was the introduction of several innovations. Iced tea made its first appearance at the 1904 Worldâ € ™ s Fair. Tea bags were accidentally invented in 1908, as Thomas Sullivan, a New York tea importer and tea delivered to customers in silk packages. Customers permeated the entire package and praised him, because he needs the tea no effort. Today, Americans consume about 140 million cups of tea per day, with an estimated 80% of it as iced tea. But surprisingly, it is still virtually the same brew than that of the old emperor Shen, way back when.

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