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History of tea
Tea is a drink that will guide us through everyday life and many people might therefore seem mundane and ordinary. It is almost unbelievable that appeared in Europe only a few hundred years ago. The richest drinks over the centuries became the drink that almost everyone will love.No one can say exactly when the tea is, and who first appeared in the wetting fluid delicious fragrant his lips. Legends depict like? Discoverer? tea and also a great healer of the Chinese emperor Shen-Mungo, who has nearly a five thousand years ago boiled highly polluted water, he would quench their thirst and to which he? unhappy? accidentally dropped some leaves from a tree. Angry and thirsty, was then bent down and dipped his hands into a tea to boiling water from the leaves removed. He was drugged sweet aroma that is emitted from the container and decided to taste the tea.

Some attribute the Chinese tea divine origin and combine this liquid with a Buddhist monk Bódhirmu. He swore all the faithful that he would pray for life, but soon fell asleep from exhaustion. Monk is coming very angry that so easily succumbed to sleep and the anger he cut off both eyelids. The place where dotkal country grew shrub from whose leaves the drink refreshed tired body and mind stimulating.

The oldest herbarium, which carries a record of tea come from China and originated 1,500 years ago. Legends of the miraculous power of tea, however, told of many centuries earlier. In the 6th century, tea became the drink of the aristocracy, for 4 centuries later všelidovým drink, probably due to poor hygienic conditions in this area did not allow not-boiled drinking water. The flowers are produced tea candles to the temples, the tiny leaves and seeds of expensive cigarettes served to oil extraction. The Sung Dynasty, enjoyed the greatest popularity of so-called whisked tea, the Japanese took over the preparation for their day-long tea ceremony. In some provinces was particularly special care to prepare the yellow tea, whose leaves had been harvested from the morning dew. At harvest time, this outstanding plant specially trained pickers could not eat any strongly scented food, the plants were allowed to approach each only after a thorough bath and gloves specially made for this work. From times of Ming Dynasty, roughly from 14 century, came the first reports about pairing tea as we know it today. China exported 1 19th century, most tea in the world, thanks to British colonial policy, however, been overtaken by India, which now holds the lead in exports of tea worldwide.

Tea has also spread to Tibet. The local nomads drink it with melted yak butter and salt, which is a way for us Europeans quite unusual. Mixing oil and tea have bleak and cold conditions of Tibet are good reasons? Tea has a high energy value, restoring the power of people.

In Japan tea once grew wild, but later became a very common beverage and its preparation in the 15th century began to apply the tea ceremony adopted from China. Japanese families had special tea rooms or houses with very small entrance to anyone who wanted to taste, before he had to bend down and express the humility of the drink. The tradition of the tea ceremony is still practiced today, is used Macca quality tea, which is the best tea to help prepare the equipment up to 4 hours.

In India, which has long been an English colony, the real interest in the tea found only in the 19 century. Today, the best and most expensive tea considers the Darjeeling tea.

The Ceylon began with the cultivation of tea and a little bit? Accidentally?. There was a particular favorite coffee plants, which are due to rust, which destroyed the plantations did not grow further. On this island tea is valued according to the altitude at which it starts. The best quality tea comes from the heights around 2000 m rule applies here, that the greater height tea grows, the higher its price.

With Russia, we also know we do tea. The tradition of tea in this country is not nearly as long as it would suggest that country’s common border with China. Many residents of this country took a cup of tea and began to pass on saying, Where they have a good tea, drink less vodka.

In Europe, tea was given in 16 century. Although this drink got mnnoho supporters found there as well as opponents who claimed that men drink tea loses its attractiveness to women. After Portugal and the Netherlands became the third power involved in trade with China, India and England, whose King Charles II in 1660 he married Catherine Portuguese. Both allegedly beat a great lover of tea and Catherine quipment comprising several pounds of tea spread the love of the drink throughout Aglio.