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The Eternal Tea Hut Of The Ages

As you might know, in the year 2737 b.Ch, the emperor Chen Nung discovered tea by accident, in his bowl filled with boiled water fell a few leafs from the tree under which the emperor was resting.
And so Tea came to be, and with time this recipe’s qualities were discovered.
Starting with the 4 century a.Ch, tea becomes very popular all through China and so giving birth to 3 great tea schools.

The TANG dynasty creates the boiled tea school- the tea was boiled with rice, ginger or orange peel, spices and even milk. Under the TANG dynasty a very popular saying was “a family cannot live a day without drinking tea”.

The SONG dynasty establishes the grinding tea school- this is about the Matcha tea powder , which is prepared by immediate infusion in boiled water, bearing a vegetable taste, green coloured and it’s used up to this day, mainly in pastry.

The MING dynasty developed the infused tea school, the thing we drink today, inserting (introducing) the tea in a filter and submerging it into boiled water.
These 3 schools were the founding spreaders of tea around the world. More and more famous Japanese monks came from all around to China in that period to study the art of Buddhism and up took the art of tea making back to their own country, Japan. One of the monks brought back to his country a few tea seeds to plant and so came to be the “tea ceremony”. Japanese sow this plant of more than a mere drink, giving it a spiritual connotation, that of spiritual enrichment, fulfilment and uplift.

Tea was introduced in Europe in the 13th century, by a Arab merchant, and after 1600, tea concurred the whole of Occidental Europe. Ludovic the XIVth was among the first to be fond of tea, he raised it’s status to “a royal drink”, “an aristocratic drink, at this point tea was actually competing with chocolate . The women from the French court had fallen irremediable in love with this potion and this is when the tabiet of pouring and drinking milk into the tea.

Today, the French drink about 100 cups/a year/per person, and were the first in the world to crate special mixtures of teas.
In England tea became a national drink in the XIXth century and Queen Victoria introduced the famous “Five O’clock Tea”