History of tea

Early history China

• The Chinese have consumed tea for thousands of years. People of the Han Dynasty used tea as medicine. China is considered to have the earliest records of tea consumption with records dating back to the 10th century BC.

• Tea drinking was widespread. The book describes how tea plants were grown, the leaves processed.

• Teas produced in this period were mainly tea bricks which were often used as currency.

Where did it come from?

• Origins of tea come from south Asia.

• It comes from lands of northeast India, north Burma, southwest China and Tibet. The plant was introduced to more than 52 countries.

Japan

• The usage of tea spread to Japan around the 6th century.Tea became a drink in Japan when Japanese priests were sent to China to learn about its culture and they brought tea to Japan.

• Ancient recordings indicate the first batch of tea seeds were brought by a priest named Saichō.

India

• Tea was first introduced into India by the British, in an attempt to break the Chinese monopoly on tea.

• Prior to the British, the plant may have been used for medicinal purposes.

• India was the top producer of tea for nearly a century after China in 1st. Place.

The United Kingdom

• The import of tea into Britain began in the 1660s with the marriage of King Charles II to the Portuguese princess Catherine of Braganza, who brought to the court the habit of drinking tea.

• By the end of the seventeenth century tea was taken as a drink, drank mainly by the aristocracy.

English tea tradition

• In Britain black tea is usually served with milk and strawberry jam.

• Strong tea served with milk and occasionally one or two teaspoons of sugar.

• Much of the time in the United Kingdom, tea drinking is not the delicate, refined cultural expression that some might imagine: a cup of tea is something drunk often, with some people drinking six or more cups of tea a day.

Tea as a meal

• Tea is served in the afternoon light meal at four o'clock.

• There used to be a tradition of tea rooms in the UK which provided the traditional fare of cream and jam on scones.

Made by :

• Luka Bobanac

• Lucija Dora Mrkonjić

• Mihaela Tomljanović

• Gabi Lamza

• Lovro Ramljak