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Very ancient, yet hugely popular still, there's something about tea that defies simple explanation. Not thinking about it, means the tea drinker is missing out on so much joy. Just a little knowledge adds so much to the experience of drinking tea.
3000 BC onwards
The Chinese were undergoing agricultural revolution, and all the transformations in society that would build the infrastructure needed for such a crop. The world was ready for a popular beverage, so tea's discovery came at exactly the right time. The question is, which way around did things happen. Did the infrastructure come arrive to cope with tea, or was tea something that was made possible because the infrastructure was there? An emperor was credited with discovering it, Shien Non Shei, who it is claimed discovered it by accident when a leaf fell into his freshly boiled water.
In the early days of tea, it was a drink that cost more than many a beverage and therefore was something exclusive to the wealthy merchants, business men, emperors, and nobles not to mention the upper levels of bureaucracy. Over time the price dropped as more became available. In the early ages constant war certainly served to keep the levels down, so that the number of people who aspired to drink tea would always outnumber those who could drink tea.
729 AD onwards
Green tea up till this point had been mostly confined to China, it was around 729AD that the Emperor gifted Buddhist monks some tea. Clearly taken by this drink the word got back to Japan via these monks and soon Japan was cultivating its own tea and developing it's own particular varieties and traditions. Interestingly the iconic Japanese tea ceremony was also imported from China in a similar manner at a later date.
1368 AD onwards
As the vast Mongolian Empire crumbled, finally tea became something everyone could enjoy, and exploded in popularity beyond the upper echelons of society and instead became a beverage for everyone. This period in tea's history saw the small tea houses spring up to serve the population and become the first of what is now an iconic and ever lasting cultural tradition.
1400 AD onwards
A Zen priest from Japan visited China and discovered a very interesting ceremony which he brought back to Japan. This ceremony was soon lost in China, but transplanted to Japan it flourished into what we now know as the iconic Japanese tea ceremony.
1600AD onwards
Japan was a great place for tea to be spotted by other travellers, and so it was inevitable that the beverage would make its way to the west. 1610 is attributed as the date tea first arrived in Europe, with the 17th century seeing a great deal of changes with tea first being a luxury item coming in dribs and drabs on cargo ships and therefore only available to the rich, to it being available to everyone by the end of the century. China then stopped exporting tea, forcing the British to start cultivating it in India. Not long after arriving in Europe green tea naturally made its leap to the Americas. It wasn't there for long when the Boston Tea party changed its fortunes though, and green tea would fade from popularity until relatively recently.
Green tea has had a long and interesting history, and though it faded out of popularity in the west for a while, it's now growing in popularity as interest in healthier alternatives sparks people's passion to explore other options.
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