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China is the hometown of tea. Chinese tea culture is a combination of tea art and spirit. Classification of tea: Green tea, Black tea, Yellow tea, White tea, Dark tea, Oolong tea, Scented tea

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Li Shizhen who writes the Bencao Gangmu said that: tea is bitter and cool…can best dissolve internal heat which is the root of all diseases. Internal heat is checked by the cooling effect of tea when ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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Lu Yu wrote the Canon of Tea in the Tang Dynasty about the year780. This is the first book about tea. So Lu Yu is known as the Tea saint.

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Many people may think that tea drinking is such time-honored practice in China that no other beverage could truly replace it in a country with thousands of years of tea-drinking tradition. The tea ...

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