Shennong group introduction to the tea cultures influence on the westerners

Beijing shennong materia medica agriculture group co., LTD

The development of tea culture in China has a long history, Chinese tea culture begins with shennong, to its height during the tang and song dynasty, continues to this day. Tea has shifted from the original drink gradually developed into a cultural category. Out in Chinese and traditional Chinese tea culture, since the Ming and qing dynasties is already in the local widespread. Early Chinese communities in places such as Europe and the United States, the tea culture is a basic as gang culture synchronous transmission, for example, hong door tea array, and so on.

Tea culture into the western s is also very long, according to geographical points: one is the whole of America. The other is for Europe. China is the hometown of tea, long before the tang dynasty, in the production of tea is sold to all over by land and by sea. First arrived in Japan and South Korea, and then spread to India and central Asia. In the Ming and qing dynasties, and reached the Arab island. At the beginning of the 17th century, Chinese tea and sold to European countries, many of the upper-class aristocratic gentleman, have formed the habit of drinking tea. China's silk and porcelain, tea and China has become the synonymous with China in the world. When the Portuguese, Dutch and British ships appeared in the seas near China and Japan, they many Oriental treasures, tea is an essential commodities. In Europe, the physician to see not seen in the tea benefit and harm. In general coffee is tasted at the same time, the British but love at first sight to tea. Britain became a tea big country on earth. 18 ~ 19 century, the British tea consumption more with every day, economists worry that even the Treasury silver is not enough to buy the tea! Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus tried to plant tea tree in my hometown, eventually because of poor northern winter climate ended in failure. In 1840, the opium war broke out, the direct cause of the outbreak of war is a British opium cultivation in India, in an attempt to replace silver, in exchange for Chinese tea, lead to escalating the conflict between China and the UK. Reviewing the long historical long river, human love of plants, human nature ever tried to plant many flowers grass, hard to implement from hunger and refreshing.