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Tea has existed as a beverage since 2000 B.C. The brewing, serving, anddrinking of tea are time-honored rituals throughout the world. While there isgeneral agreement that the tea trade began in China, both China and Indialay claim to discovering the dietary properties of tea leaves. The Chinese tellthe story of a mythical emperor named Shen Nung who was so particularabout his nutrition that he boiled his drinking water before he drank it. Oneday, the story goes, the wind caught some of the leaves on the tree branchesthat he had used to build a fire. The leaves floated into his boiling...
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Quy trình sản xuất trà túi lọc - ks.phan quang thoaiphanquangthoai@yahoo lhuCông ngh s n xu t trà túi l c (tea bag) BackgroundTea has existed as a beverage since 2000 B.C. The brewing, serving, anddrinking of tea are time-honored rituals throughout the world. While there isgeneral agreement that the tea trade began in China, both China and Indialay claim to discovering the dietary properties of tea leaves. The Chinese tellthe story of a mythical emperor named Shen Nung who was so particularabout his nutrition that he boiled his drinking water before he drank it. Oneday, the story goes, the wind caught some of the leaves on the tree branchesthat he had used to build a fire. The leaves floated into his boiling water and,lo, tea was created.In India, the discovery is attributed to Bodhidharma, an actual person whofounded the Ch-an School of Buddhism. In A.D. 527, after four years of aself-imposed nine-year meditation, Bodhidharma grew sleepy. In an attemptto stay awake, he began to chew on the twigs of a nearby tree and suddenlyfound himself wide awake; he had discovered tea. Trang 1 ks.phanquangthoaiphanquangthoai@yahoo lhuThe tea bush is a white-flowered evergreen in the Camellia family. Chinesedocuments record it as indigenous to the Hunan province in southwestChina. In modern times, it is generally accepted that the original tea bushgrew in India and was brought to China. It thrives in a rocky terrain. Inapproximately A.D. 350, tea cultivation was also reported in the Szechwanprovince along the Yangtze River.During the T’ang Dynasty in the eighth century, tea drinking achieved thestatus of an art form. Tea merchants hired a man named Lu Yu to compilethe first written record of Chinese tea ceremonies. Entitled Ch’a Ching (TheClass of Tea), the three-volume work revolutionized the tea industry. Thesecond volume includes an exhaustive list of the equipment necessary tobrew tea correctly; all-told, 24 items are listed.In the 12th century, monks from the Zen sect of Buddhists brought the tea-brewing process home to Japan from their travels in China. Yeisei, aBuddhist abbot, is credited with writing Japan’s first tea book: Kitcha-Yojoki (Book of Tea Sanitation). Since then, Zen Buddhism and tea havegrown inseparable.Several Europeans mentioned bringing tea back home from their visits to theOrient. One of them was Giambattista Ramusio, an editor of travel booksand a diplomatic representative of the Venetian government. Gaspar daCruz, a Portuguese Jesuit priest and missionary, also brought tea when hereturned. In 1520, Ferdinand Magellan discovered the straits that now bearhis name around the southern tip of South America and opened the door to awhat would become a well-traveled westward trade route between Europeand the Orient.Holland was the first to record the purchase of tea in 1607. The tea was firstsold at apothecary shops, then in stores where spices and sugar were sold.By the 18th century, stores devoted entirely to the sale of tea and coffee hadopened. The first tea sold to the English public occurred in 1657 at a coffeehouse called Exchange Alley. When King Charles HI married thePortuguese princess Catherine of Braganza in 1661, her dowry included tea.Fifty-five years later, on October 12, 1712, Thomas Twining openedEngland’s first tea shop.England’s East India Company grew prosperous from its opium trade toChina and although the English addiction to tea was not as detrimental as the Trang 2 ks.phanquangthoaiphanquangthoai@yahoo lhuChinese addiction to opium, the company also profited by the sale of tea itbrought back in exchange. The English government ignored the questionablenature of the company’s business so that it could levy a high import tax ontea. In spite of the tariff, or perhaps because of it, a great deal of tea wassmuggled into the country. The tea tax also figured prominently in theAmerican Revolution, as witnessed by the infamous Boston Tea Party whenrebellious colonists pitched a shipment of East India Company tea into theharbor.Until the early 20th century, tea was sold loose. Tea bags were inventedquite by accident in 1904 when Thomas Sullivan, an enterprising merchant,wrapped samples of tea leaves in silk bags and sent them to prospectivecustomers, some of whom dipped the bags directly into boiling water. Thesilk bags gave way to gauze pouches and eventually to specially treated filterpaper.Herb teas, caffeine-free and cultivated from a variety of plant leaves,flowers, roots, bark, and seeds, have become enormously popular over thelast 20 years. Although they were probably brewed as ...