During the Tang Dynasty in 60 AD, the Chinese poet Lu Yu first wrote an essay on tea called Cha Jing (Tea Classic). From then on, every spring the Chinese peasants began to give the emperor the best tea they could produce. In those days, tea leaves were cut between two bricks to facilitate transportation. Then the tea leaves were conveniently crushed.
Expressing his love for tea, Lu Tang of the Tang Dynasty wrote:
“The first cup soaked my lips and my throat;
My loneliness in the second cup;
Finding the third cup brings back my barren pores and brings back a thousand forgotten memories;
The fourth cup is a little sweaty and the mistakes of life come out through the pores;
In the fifth cup becomes pure I;
The sixth cup calls me to the realm of immortality.
Seventh cup - Ah! I can't sleep anymore!
I can only feel the cold air touching my two arms.
Where is Divyadham? Blow me away in this gentle breeze and sprinkle it with coldness. ”
Russia first introduced tea in 1818. The Chinese ambassador took the Russian jar as a gift for Elixir and returned it as he did not know the value of the jar.
In the 1800s, tea was planted in the backyards of the West. At that time, only fragrant green tea was the way to quench their thirst. Coarse-grained black tea or black tea was not invented then. The exclusive commercialization of tea began in this century. The Baniya group, the East India Company, brought tea in 184 as a gift to the British king and queen. In 189, the East India Company persuaded the government to ban all tea importers and to emerge as the sole importer. In the 1800s, an Englishman drank an average of two pounds of tea a year, which increased fivefold over the next ten years.
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Very nice article...... Black tea is my favorite