Category: Culture
Created by: U2Chinese
Number of Blossarys: 2
English (EN) 
Tea drinking became a necessary addition to the diet of herding peoples living in the border areas. About the 5th century the tea had been bartered for horses with nomadic peoples on Chinese borders. ...
The Tang Dynasty was golden age of tea when the beverage spread wide. Relations with Japan in the subsequent Song Dynasty took tea to Japan. Chinese researchers say Japanese tea ceremony was ...
The tea earliest reached Europe around 1610 on Dutch ships. Tea became so prevail in Dutch high society that “the craze for tea parties resulted in the ruin of many homes.” Tea became popular in ...
Tea was introduced and knew into North America by early settlers but was heavily taxed by the British, eventually resulting in the well-known Boston Tea Party of 1773. Nevertheless tea has never ...
The Oolong tea mainly grow in the Fujian and Guangdong provinces, many people are fond of drinking it, a half-fermented tea of dark brown color, the heavy fragrance of fresh flowers mingled with ...
Zhejiang Province is best known for its Longjing Green tea cultivated at the West Lake in Hangzhou. People who live there say the best Longjing tea is produced from leaves gathered in early April. It ...
China now is the second largest tea producer in the world, next to India. In recent years, tea no longer dominates home beverages in China. It faces to the challenge of the foreign cola and coffee. ...
