Where was Tea Discovered?!
Where was Tea Discovered?
Answers:
on tea leaves
or for another point of view - have a look at wikipedias splendid argument on where and when it originated
Source(s):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/tea...
Between S and U me thinks!
china
The exact origin of tea is unknown, but one legend points to Prince Dharuma (also called Bodhidharma, founder of Zen Buddhism), who travelled from India to China around 500 A.D. on a spiritual journey. When he arrived in Canton, he vowed to sit, without sleeping, to atone for his sins. And sit he did, for nine long years, until one day he fell into a deep slumber. Upon awakening, he was so angry with himself that he cut off his eyelids and threw them on the ground; where the eyelids touched the ground, a tea bush sprang up. It was said that the bush was a reminder of our human weakness, and that drinking the leaves of this plant would strengthen resolve and diminish the desire to sleep.
More factual accounts hold that Chinese emperor Shen Nung “discovered” the tea plant around 2700 B.C., when bits of the tea leaves fell into a pot of boiling water and produced a fragrant brew.
tea wasn't discovered...
In Asia--- it was very prevalent in Ceylon, China, and India. The British brought it to Europe and the western world.
According to one Chinese legend, Shennong, the legendary Emperor of China, inventor of agriculture and Chinese medicine, was drinking a bowl of boiling water, some time around 2737 BCE. The wind blew and a few leaves from a nearby tree fell into his water and began to change its colour. The ever inquisitive and curious monarch took a sip of the brew and was pleasantly surprised by its flavour and its restorative properties. A variant of the legend tells that the emperor tested the medical properties of various herbs on himself, some of them poisonous, and found tea to work as an antidote.
The Chinese have enjoyed tea for centuries, if not millennia. While historically the use of tea as a medicinal herb useful for staying awake is unclear, China is considered to have the earliest records of tea drinking, with recorded tea use in its history dating back to the first millennium BC. The Han Dynasty used tea as medicine.
Around about the 5th century AD, Tamo brought tea from India to China where it was cultivated and drunk. There doesn`t seem to be much written about it before then.
You'll have to go back 1,000,000,000 years when my dad accidentally dropped the leaves in the pot of water and we had to drink SUN tea all day!!!!
China, Lao Tzu (600-517 BCE), the founder of Taoism described tea as "the froth of the liquid jade" and named it an indispensable ingredient to the elixir of life.
In a cup!!!!
The Story of SHEN NUNG
China is believed to be the birthplace of Tea. The most famed story about Tea is the legend of Emperor Shen Nung, who lived in about 2737 BC. Emperor Shen Nung was also called the "Father of the Chinese Traditional Medicine" at that time. The legend says that the Emperor had boiled water in a large pot while working in his garden under a big tree, when a strong breeze suddenly blew , causing a few leaves to fall into the boiling water. When the Emperor drank the water, he realized that the water tasted different and that it refreshed his body.
The leaves that fell into the boiling water were actually Tea leaves, and since then Tea has become a popular drink
The Story of DARUMA
The Japanese have a different story about Tea, which is related to the spreading of Buddhism by a Buddhist monk named Daruma, who lived in 520 BC. According to the legend, the first Tea plant grew from his eyelids. He was very upset when he found himself falling asleep during his meditation one day. In order to avoid falling asleep again, Daruma cut off both his eyelids and threw them into the bushes not far from his meditation site. Soon afterwards, a tree grew at the place where his eyelids had fallen, which is known today to us as the Tea tree. The Japanese believe that it was the first Tea tree in the world.
china
In china originally