Tea is a popular drink worldwide. Different peoples have their own traditions - in China, for example, the tea ceremony is thought out to the smallest detail, and includes at least 100 rules!
In England, no man can deny himself the pleasure of drinking tea and having a light sandwich snack.
Tea, in addition to unique taste qualities, also has healing properties - having prepared a drink with ginger and lemon, you will provide yourself with an effective tool that will help speed up the metabolism, painlessly get rid of extra pounds and cope with colds.
We often see different types of tea in stores, but most people out of habit take the usual one - in bags. Inexpensive and fast to cook. I want to tell you - how much you lose! Try other types of tea, adding honey or ginger to the drink - you will be delighted.
In the article, we are pleased to share with you interesting facts about tea - we hope you will be interested!
10. China - the birthplace of the drink
Tea is one of the most popular drinks in the world, the birthplace of which is China.. The state deservedly bears the title "tea empire. "
For the Chinese, tea drinking means a lot - it is worth taking a look at their ceremonies to understand this. The drink for the indigenous people of China is a symbol of warmth and harmony. Interestingly, tea became famous during the reign of the Tang Dynasty (618 - 907 BC)
Initially, it was used as a medicine, and only later they began to drink it for pleasure. Since many varieties of tea are produced in China, it is the main supplier all over the world.
9. Black tea is consumed more often than green in the world, with the exception of China.
Black tea is the most common in the world.. Having learned the healing properties of green tea, residents of different countries sometimes drink it, but not as willingly as black.
Its healing properties have been known for a long time - even in the era of Kamakura (1191–1333), the monk Yisai emphasized the beneficial effects of tea in his book “Maintaining Health When I Drink Tea”.
The Chinese are very fond of this variety because it has several advantages: prolongs life, refreshes, satisfies hunger, improves intelligence, removes toxins from the body, etc. Therefore, think, maybe you should start drinking green tea?
8. India is the second largest exporter of tea, but in this country they prefer to drink coffee
India is one of the leading leaders in tea production - up to 1 billion kg of raw materials are produced annually. It is the second largest exporter of tea, by itself, after China. India produces different varieties, but especially residents of different countries prefer black.
In general, describing the teas of India, we can say that they are bright, strong, sometimes they have rather delicate taste. But the indigenous people themselves prefer coffee - There are numerous coffee plantations in India, high-quality arabica and robusta are grown in the country. In India, coffee is drunk differently: with sugar, milk, or even spices.
7. In total there are 6 types of drink and 1,5 thousand varieties
There are a lot of varieties of tea around the world - about 1.5 thousand, but there are only 6 types of drink: white (slows down the aging process), black (improves the state of the cardiovascular system), green (maintains blood sugar), puerh (normalizes digestion), yellow (activates mental activity, helps fight depression) and oolong (promotes weight loss) .
It is worth noting that each of them includes several subspecies. Perhaps one of these teas will be useful to you. Remember the names!
Interesting fact: the most expensive tea is called Da-Hong Pao, price per 1 kg. is $ 1.2. It is prepared according to sophisticated technology from tea bushes of a special variety.
6. The work of pickers of tea leaves is quite difficult
It is believed that female fingers are more sensitive, so basically you can see that women pick tea (when female hands are torn off the top of the plant, a new leaf appears after 7 days, for comparison - a bush with a machine gives a new leaf only after 14 days )
Tea is harvested almost all year round, but raw materials for the best varieties are harvested in spring or early summer. The work of pickers of tea leaves is monotonous and heavy. The production rate for collectors is 30-35 kg. sheets per day, and to take from the bushes only the necessary leaves are required. For the whole day of work of such difficult work, tea pickers receive scanty money.
5. Louis XIV was the first in Europe to become a drinker
Louis XIV, who managed to sit on the throne for 72 years, was very fond of drinking tea, and advised everyone to drink it. There is a reason for that.
Once, Louis XIV fell ill with typhus, and for those times it was certain death, but he was so hardy that for a month he struggled with the disease in a variety of ways: the doctor gave him enemas, did bloodletting, etc.
The king’s mistress, the Marquise, along with his friend, the minister, sealed Louis XIV with tea (at that time he was a rare, even precious potion). So, after drinking tea, the king recovered!
This is a beautiful story, but perhaps the whole point is that the king stopped taking the help of a doctor, recovering from the fact that his body was left alone. However, Louis XIV considered tea a magic drink, and even made it in the garden by the palace ...
4. Tea bags invented in the USA
Tea in bags is a very practical solution, especially for those who are always in a hurry. No need to brew for a long time - threw a bag in a glass, filled it with hot water and you're done.
More than 100 years have passed since the invention of the tea bag, and Thomas Sullivan, a tea trader from New York, became its inventor. (however, the exact year of the invention is unknown, it is written somewhere that this happened in 1904, and according to other sources, in 1908.)
For the sake of advertising, Thomas Sullivan scattered tea in small silk bags, and sent it to expensive restaurants. Consumers appreciated this idea of tea brewing.
3. Many factors influence the resulting taste of tea.
The taste, color and aroma of tea is influenced by dozens of factors, therefore, it is impossible to say for sure what the quality of the drink depends on.
A lot of additives are used for tea: if you drink red tea with milk (as the British do), it will become slightly sweet and astringency will soften, if you add lemon to the drink, it will add acidity and delay the natural astringency, ginger warms up the throat and it gives refreshing scent. If you need to warm yourself - red tea with ginger is the best way to do this.
2. Has healing properties
When they get sick, they usually say: "Drink hot tea with honey to keep warm and recover faster. ”. And they’re doing it right! Tea has a number of healing properties and, depending on which problem needs to be addressed, a suitable drink is prepared.
For example, if you want to remove nausea, you need to chew dry green tea, with alcohol poisoning a strong and sweet hot drink with milk helps, and the juice of a fresh tea leaf perfectly rescues from burns. But this is only a little of what tea can do! The list is actually huge.
1. In the first place in the world in use, except for water
Perhaps the most popular drinks are tea and coffee. In Russia, for example, to cheer up and finally wake up, they drink coffee, but not this drink is most common.
In some countries, tea is considered a favorite beverage, and it comes first in the world (not including water).
In Kuwait, if you refuse to offer the tea, you may find it incomprehensible (there they accept rejection as an insult), in the United Arab Emirates, even traffic jams occur because of tea, because the tea windows overlook the roadway. In the UK, too, they like to drink tea and are well versed in its varieties.