Shen Nung And The Tea Leaf

My motivation for writing on tea is to unfold the information of pure therapeutic, for which I’m an enormous proponent. I additionally suppose tea is turning into stylish once more, however that is irrelevant. I might be writing a brief sequence of posts on the historical past of tea, its secrets and techniques, mysteries, and therapeutic properties.

Tea, as it’s identified right now, refers to any liquid brewed from leaves, roots, berries, barks, seeds, or different. Initially thought, tea comes from a really particular plant in China, the black tea shrub, and its beginnings are as legendary because the origin of fireplace.

The story of the primary cup of tea comes from historic China within the yr 2737 B.C. At some point the Emperor Shen Nung was heating water in a pot exterior of his palace. Rapidly the wind blew leaves from a close to by bush into the pot, leaves from a black tea shrub, and the aroma fully captivated the Emperor. He tasted the intriguing brew and from thence tea grew to become the world’s most consumed beverage.

Nonetheless the primary cup of tea grew to become brewed, the leaves from the black tea shrub started in China 1000’s of years in the past and made its approach internationally. Persian merchants used to trek throughout the Hymalayas to exchanged saffron and different spices for tea leaves. Then in 1559 it reached the Venetians, the worlds biggest seafaring retailers, who introduced it to Europe. Immediately tea was all the trend, everybody needed to attempt it. By the early 1600’s the Dutch East India Buying and selling Firm was importing massive quantities of tea from China to feed the demand in Europe. At first, in Europe, tea was reserved only for the rich due to big price of bringing it from China, and the customized of solely consuming it ceremoniously from Chinese language porcelain in occasion settings. Finally that modified as tea grew to become broad unfold, and different crops have been used as substitutes for the Chinese language black tea shrub in occasions of scarcity or defiance.

Tea has at all times been considered a therapeutic beverage with a number of medicinal properties. Whether or not you drink it for enjoyable or for medicinal functions, tea is an excellent drink.