Amazing Facts About Tea

1.Evidence of the first use of tea in China 200 years ago

Items such as dried leaves have been found in the ancient tomb of Yinglung in central China.

 The presence of caffeine and thiamine in the leaves suggests that it was in fact tea that was buried with the deceased so that they could use it in the post-death world.

 For the first time since its discovery, the history of tea consumption goes back 200 years.

 2. All types of tea come from the same plant species

The world's largest tea plant is the mosquito 'Camilla sinensis'.

 The leaves and buds of this evergreen shrub or small tree were used to make tea.

 The different types of tea are due to its different cultivars, growing conditions and production process.

 3.  A religious beverage

Tea was brought to Japan by Japanese religious leaders and diplomats who had returned from China around the sixth century, and it became a favorite of the religious community.  And for many centuries, green tea has been an elite beverage.

  Chinese Buddhist monks introduced the tea ceremony in the 15th century, but the Japanese made it a regular ritual, which later became a semi-religious and social tradition.

4.  When China's monopoly broke

In the 17th century, when the diplomatic and trade relations between China and the British Raj broke down, Britain began searching for tea and markets.

 The East India Company, which controls global trade, hired Scottish foreman Robert Fortune, who collected rare plants from all over the world and sold them to the elite.

 They were asked to go into China secretly and smuggle tea plants to India so that a parallel industry could be established there.

 Surprisingly, they managed to smuggle 20,000 tea plants from China to Darjeeling, India.  But going there, they found that there was a lot of these plants already.

 But it would not be wrong to say that Robert Fortune's activities involved the making of India a tea house.

5.  Milk in tea

Tea plant grown in India is a subspecies of Camellia sinensis Asamica.

 The taste of Assam tea feels better in the form of black tea instead of green.  The leaves become blackened by oxidation or oxidation which removes their flower-like taste, making it thicker, sharper and 'like'.

 Usually the first English break fast tea containing Assam tea was very fast and this led to the need for milk.

 Nowadays in the UK, English Breastfeed Tea is weaned but in other parts of Europe it is not customary to give milk to tea.

 This is because tea in the Netherlands came from Indonesia's Java region, which was not fast and did not require milk and was popular in Europe, Spain and Germany.

6.The hand of tea in the revolution

In 1773, Boston residents of the United States rose up against the colonial era of British imperialism.

 At the same time, the Boston Tea Party came into being, protesting against the British government's tax on tea.

 In the dark of the night, the nationalists attacked three British vessels standing at the Boston port and threw 342 containers of tea into the sea.

 The protest made the American War of Independence a step closer