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THE ROOTS OF TEA

In some countries, such as Greece, if you offer
someone a cup of tea, they may well say, 'No thanks,
I'm not ill'. For them, they
a cup of tea is something
are given when they are tucked up in bed, feeling
poorly. In Britain, however, tea is not just a daily
drink, enjoyed throughout the day, there is even a
special meal, 'afternoon tea' dedicated to enjoying this
beverage. In the UK, a cup of tea is also part of the
remedy when anyone has a problem. 'Sit down, love,
don't worry, have a cuppa and tel1 me ali about it.'
So, did tea originate in Britain? No, the story of tea
goes much further back to China.
There is a 1egend that in 2737 BC, the
Chinese emperor Shen Nung was sitting
outside under a tree when a 1ight
,*,A breeze blew some leaves into
the water which his servant
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Nung grew herbs to be
used as medicine, so he
was curious and tried the
drink of boiled leaves. What
Shen Nung drank that day,
was what we now know as
tea. The leaves were from a
Camellia sinensis tree.
W-e don't know how true this story is, but tea was
definitely the national drink of China a long time
before it appeared in the west. During the late eighth
century, Lu Yu wrote the Ch'a Ching, or Tea Classic,
the first book dedicated to this leafy beverage. Not
long after, tea travelled to }apan, taken there by
|apanese Buddhist monks who had been studying in
China. A special tea ceremony was developed in |apan
for the preparation and presentation of tea. Drinking
tea still occupies a huge role in |apanese culture.
So, who brought tea to Europe? It was the Dutch.
They had trading post in fava, Indonesia, and
a
shipped tea from China to Holland. Tea soon became
popular in Holland and then spread to other countries
in western Europe, although it was mainly a drink for
the wealthy, because at the time it was stil1 costly.
It is very probable, that it was the British East India
Company who first imported tea into Britain at
the beginning of the 17th century, as they were the
company who imported goods from the East. There is
an advert in a London newspaper that gives the first
recorded date of the presence of tea in Britain as 1658.
It advertised the 'China drink, Tcha, alias Tee' to be on
sale at a coffee house in Sweeting's Rents in the City.

O. ln Greece, tea is usually drunk when someone is ill.

1, ln the UK, people tell each other their problems over a cup of tea.
2. A legend says that tea was discovered by accident.
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3. Shen Nung found the taste of tea to be delicious.
4. Shen Nung wrote a book about tea.
5. The Chinese introduced a special ceremony for the preparation of tea to Japanese monks.
6. The Dutch had a base in Java which was used for shipping tea back to their homeland.
7. Tea could be drunk in coffee houses in London in the early 17th century.
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