A Very Brief History Of Tea In Imperial Japan

Coffee production provides financial advantages for the countries who have the largest coffee sales. Tea: Tea became a mainstream drink in Asia around 100 BCE. It then became a mainstream drink in Europe around 1610 CE.

One of the most famous revolts of all time was the Boston Tea Party. During the late 1700s, the East India Company had a monopoly on all of the tea in the colonies. Tea was everything

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The Tea Act of 1773 helped grant the East Indian Company a monopoly on tea importation. A group of Boston protestors disguised themselves as Indians, boarded a ship with crates of tea on it, and dumped those chests of tea into the harbor of Boston. This event became known as the Boston Tea

Tea: Tea began as a luxury drink, and then trickled down to become the beverage of the working man. The story of tea is the story of imperialism, industrialization, and world domination. According to Chinese tradition, the first cup of tea was brewed by the emperor Shen Nung. Before tea was a beverage, it was used for medicinal purposes and foodstuff. Tea became a daily drink in China around the third century A.D. As the Industrial Revolution of 18th and 19th centuries gained steam, tea provided some of the fuel. Factory workers stayed alert during long, monotonous shifts thanks to welcome tea breaks. The beverage also had unintended health benefits for rapidly growing urban areas. Chewing leaves and rubbing them on wounds were ways that tea was used for medicinal purposes.

The tea its self wasn’t made in Britain but made in China. The British East India Company had extensive dealings in China. The tea destroyed during the Boston Tea Party was described as “Bohea” type, which is known as black tea. The black tea come from the mountains in China.

The Tea act was extended by the British Parliament in 1773 to reduce the tax on tea shipped to the dependencies. The Act was one of many measures imposed on the American colonists by the British regime. The Act imposed a tax on tea imported to the colonies by a company that Great Britain had set up for that role. That society owned the sole right to import tea to the settlements, so almost all tea consumed by colonists would be taxed. They were so furious that they boycotted tea altogether.

In the late sixteenth- century Europe adopted a caffeinated warm drink for the first time this included chocolate, tea and coffee. Tea fills the senses with a bittersweet scent. This herb came from china by ship. Unlike cider and beer tea was new to the English-speaking world (49). Starting in the eighteenth- century Europe trading companies began to market green and black tea (51). Before this time period tea was very rare in the west region of British north America. Only the wealthy could originally afford tea and sugar. Tea was also used as a source of herbal medicine rather than traditional methods. This herb was also expensive because it shipped across great distances and allowed the East India Company to charge higher prices and labor added an extra charge. This resulted in tea becoming a luxury item in the colonies (53). The Townshend’s act in 1767 put a tax on tea which Americans responded that parliament could not tax without their consent. This frustrated the colonist because it put their love for tea at risk, so they responded to parliament by aiming at British merchants and manufactures

For all the Tea in China by Sarah Rose reviewed by Brooke Gschwind “For all the Tea in China -How England Stole the World 's Favorite Drink and Changed History ” as the subtitle foreshadows the story already. Before I had even read the book I assumed it would be

It all started when the only place that could legally sell tea to the colonies was East India. The colonists could either choose to sell tea that the British most likely sold because they have made the colonists pay so many other taxes, or they could choose to buy the tea that East India sold that was expensive but didn’t have any tax. The colonists were not happy about this. So on December 16 the colonists got up in the middle of the night and boarded gigantic boats, put on black masks, and put tea chests inside the boat. They sailed the boats into the Boston Harbor. When the boats were anchored down the colonists took the tea chests and threw them overboard into the Boston Harbor. This is why the Boston Tea Party is sometimes referred to as the destruction of tea in Boston. Their goal from dumping tea chests into the Boston Harbor was to get the British to stop having taxation without representation. The British did not react well to this action. In fact the Boston Tea Party caused the intolerable

Ella Sarachan 12/3/2015 Ethnography of Tea Background China The origins of tea are rooted in China (Food Timeline). According to legend, the beneficial properties of tea were first discovered by the Emperor Shen Nung in the year 2737 B.C. He drank only boiled water for hygienic purposes, and one day while he drank a breeze rustled the branches of a tree and a few leaves fell into his cup. Creating the first cup of tea. It is challenging to know whether or not the emperor was real or just a part of the spiritual and cultural development of ancient China. China was not unified as an empire until the third century, so it is unlikely emperors existed back then. One thing that is known is that tea was popular in China thousands of years ago. The first written reference of tea is in the third century B.C. A famous surgeon recommended the beverage to patients to increase concentration and alertness. Tea was first written as “tu” in ancient texts. This caused a good deal of confusion because the same Chinese character was used for both tea and Chinese sow thistles. Between 206 B.C. and A.D. 220 a Han Dynasty emperor ruled that when referring to tea, the characters should be pronounced as “cha”. From here on, tracing tea’s history became easier because tea acquired its own individual character (Food Timeline).

- First in its market to brew its tea from tea leaves as opposed to artificial powders.

Chen Zongmao’s book supports the whole view of my research paper. It introduces the development of tea in different historic stages, and especially focuses on the culture of tea in different time. Moreover, it states Chinese tea from all the aspects such as tea’s category, how to drink tea, how to plant etc. This book is like a tea Encyclopedia that le

Tea ceremonies in Japan, also known as chanoyo or sado might seen like a simple little tea party but they actually require a lot of things to learn before hosting or attending a ceremony"(JAPANESE TEA CEREMONY: HISTORY, SCHOOLS, GREAT MASTERS AND AND PROCEDURES. JAPANESE TEA CEREMONY: HISTORY, SCHOOLS, GREAT MASTERS AND AND PROCEDURES. Web. 08 Feb. 2016.)”. Although sado has changed through the generations, the three most important things to learn about the Japanese tea ritual is what to say, how to act, and how it must be prepared "(Kids Web Japan. Tea Ceremony. Web. 08 Feb. 2016)”. Knowing all of this will help to prove how complex and how much practice it takes to perform a Japanese tea ceremony.

D. Central Idea: To be as healthy as we can be, we need to be informed about what certain things, specifically tea, can do to help improve our bodies overall health.