A movie showing the history of the drink "tea" drinking second in the world

The second most drinking drink in the world after water is "tea". Sweet chai is drunk in Turkey, contrastingly salty butter tea in Tibet, Matcha in Japan, etc. There are various ways to drink tea depending on the country consumed, but TED's movies approaching the roots of such tea are released It is being done.

The history of tea - Shunan Teng - YouTube


The shrine farmer who appears in Chinese myths walked by eating the vegetation which is visible in the mountain from one end so as to find effective medicinal herbs for people. There are also poisonous grass in it, it is said that the farmer has been poisoned 72 times a day.


Meanwhile, it is said that the effect of reviving the weak body was obtained by poisoning the tea leaves found by the farmer.


Actually, there is no detoxification effect on the tea leaves, but it teaches that tea was useful in ancient Chinese.


In archeology it is said that the world's first tea tree was grown in China about 6000 years ago.The Great Pyramid of GizaAbout 1500 years ago when people were built, people might have been tea. That Chinese tea tree is the source of the tea which is drunk all over the world.


However, tea leaves were not originally drunk as drinks, but in some countries they were eaten as vegetables, and in some countries they were mixed with grains and they were consumed as food.


Approximately 1500 years ago, it seems that people finally noticed that if you put hot water in tea leaves you can drink as a drink.



After several hundred years, how to drink tea will be sophisticated. A beverage produced by grinding tea leaves dried in China and mixed with hot water ......


The beverage is "End tea(Matcha) "to be called.


It is said that Matcha has become a very popular drink in China and it has become the beginning of Chinese tea culture. The evidence also shows that the Chinese emperor was lacking tea with books and poetry.


During the Tang dynasty of the 9th century, Japanese monks brought back the Japanese tea tree for the first time to Japan.


That was the origin of Japanese tea ceremony culture, which led to the creation of unique tea ceremony.


In China, tea was counted as one of the serious export goods aligned with porcelain and silk in the Ming Dynasty of the 14th century. It seems that not only has the great economic influence in China due to the growing popularity of tea as export goods, but also the opportunity to spread tea around the world.


In the 1600s, merchant ships in the Netherlands began carrying a large amount of tea to Europe.


Tea that was brought to Europe married Charles II in 1661Catherine of BraganzaFamiliar to the Queen, the Queen is regarded as an accomplished person who made the tea culture rooted in England.


Also, Britain at that time was a world power that continues to expand colonies. As Britain strengthened global influence, it also became a catalyst for the spread of tea culture all over the world.


However, because tea was grown in China, it was sold at 10 times the price of coffee beans until 1700.


Expensive tea is also useful as a trade commodity, and at that time the world's fastest large sailing ship "Clipper ship"As a result, we have created intense competition among Western trading companies.


It seems that UK at that time had paid silver as a price for tea ... ...


"Silver is too expensive as the price of tea leaves" was discovered and opium of drugs began to be used for paying black tea. As a result, opium produced a large number of addicts in China and developed into a serious public health problem.


In 1839, the Qing Dynasty issued a statement to destroy a British ship carrying Opium. This triggered and continued for two years between Qing and the UK "Opium warIt broke out.


The British who won the Opium war colonized Hong Kong.


At the same time, in the UKEast India CompanyHe cultivated tea in the UK and hoped to control the market.


So there is a plant hunter in the UKRobert FortuneIt is known for stealing chanki from China and bringing it to India's Darjeeling.


Tea that spread from all over the world originated from China has developed various developments and it is familiar all over the world as a beverage of a different taste depending on the country. If you see tea when traveling abroad, it may be fun to drink while thinking about the historical background.