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Yunnan Province in China and Assam in India

Yunnan Province is in southwestern China
Yunnan Province borders Burma(Myanmar), and Laos
Awareness of tea spread first from Yunnan and then to the rest of China and
then to the rest of Asia.
5. There are seven tea mountains in China that are five hundred to a thousand
years old.
6. The Shang Dynasty (1766-1050BC), tea was being consumed in the Yunnan
Province for its medicinal purposes.
7. By the end of the Zhou Dynasty (1122-256BC) there were wild tea trees in
the Sichuan Province.
8. It is believed that in the Zhou Dynasty, people first began boiling tea without
other leaves and herbs.
9. Chinas three religions Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism sprouted in the
Zhou Dynasty.
10.Helps monks stay awake during meditation
11.Qin Shihuangdi (221-210BC) unification of China
12.Holy man named Wu LiZhen planted a tea garden on top of the Mengding
Mountain in Sichuan Province
13.The Han dynasty changed the processing of tea. They steamed the leaf
instead of charring the leaf and compressed it into cakes which eliminated
the bitterness of tea.
14.It was under the Tang Dynasty that the role of the tea master was created to
guarantee that every proper social gathering was executed carefully and with
great style.
15.Lu Yu codified the rituals of brewing proper tea.
Lu Yu also preached that inner harmony can be attained through careful tea
preparation.
16.The Tang dynasty introduced utensils that were exclusively designed for
preparing serving and drinking tea.
17.The Tang preferred whole-leaf tea flavored with fruit pastes. Many people
added onion, ginger, orange peel, cloves, peppermint. Lu Yu believed in pure
tea.
18.During the Tang Dynasty, the western border of Tibet and the Northern border
of Mongols and Tartars found tea to be a good addition to their meager diets.
19.Tang set up a system of trading tea for horses and a method of taxation of
tea that would be implemented for centuries.
20.Japan was introduced to tea by Zen priests and Buddhist monks.
21.Song Dynasty (960-1279BC) tea manners and courtesies from the Tang
reached a new level of complexity and formality for the members of the
Songs elite class.
22.During Song Dynasty, the emperor controlled production of all tea in China
and only members of a certain class could drink certain teas.
23.As with Mengding Mountain tea, the most precious tribute teas were gathered
from revered mountains and reserved exclusively for the emperor.
24.Tea cakes, to which plum juice was added, remained the favorite, but finely
powdered tea started to replace the coarse leaves in the tea.

25.To complement the new powdered tea, Song emperor Huizhong commanded
the royal pottery workers to create a new tea drinking cup.
26.At the midpoint of the Tang Dynasty and in the middle of the Song Dynasty,
Japan was in the Heian era, a period where Chinese influence was at its
height and the samurai class was beginning to rise in power.
27.Around 1191, a Zen priest named Myoan Eisai brought tea seeds and bushes
back to Japan from China
28.The Japanese court and aristocratic class grasped the same meaning from tea
drinking that the Tang and Song poets and literati had earlier.
29.As the Song Dynasty concentrated on perfecting the art of whipped tea,
fierce Mongol hordes swept down into the more temperate and lush lands of
the Chinese empire.
30.Under Kublai Khans Yuan dynasty, tea drinking was reduced to a functional
act and was no longer cultivated in court.
31.Intrigued by the leaf tea, the Yuan Mongols developed a new technique for
drying and roasting fresh tea leaves called chaoqing.
32.Aesthetic tea pursuits were thus terminated under the Mongols. The Japanese
pursued the development of tea culture when the Chinese no longer could.
33.The Japanese have left their adoration of Chinese arts and were able to imbue
the rituals of the tea ceremony with purely Japanese aesthetics.
34.The Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) ushered the Mongol rulers out of China and
reestablished Chinas former imperial customs.
35.Under Ming rule, the secrets of oxidation were discovered. Now brick tea
exported to Tibet and Mongolia could be sent as black tea.
36.Ming emperors continued the tradition of commissioning fine tableware and
the porcelain Kilns at Jingdezhen switched to producing underglaze blue and
white wares.
37.Japanese priests and mons continued to embrace the whipped powdered tea
of the Song dynasty. The Zen monks incorporated drinking powdered tea
drinking in their rituals of prayer and meditation.
38.By the 16th Century, the ultimate artistic exercise of tea drinking was born in
Chanoyu, the way of tea. Based on harmony, respect, tranquility, humility,
purity ..
39.Sen Rikyu revisited Chanoyu focusing more on philosophical virtues and calm
rather than religious purposes.
40.Under the Qing Dynasty, the imperial kitchen operated two tea kitchens.
41.Although the Portuguese were the first traders to enter the Far East, it was
the Dutch traders who first created the habit of drinking tea in the West in the
early 17th century.
42.In 1610, the first shipment of Chinese tea reached The Hague. The Dutch
loved it and laced it heavily with milk.
43.First record of tea in Massachusetts colony appeared in 1670. In 1674, New
Amsterdam passed from Dutch hands to English hands and was renamed to
New York.
44.It was not until 1658 when the first public sale of Dutch-traded Chinese tea
commenced in London.
45.Like the Dutch, the English added milk to their tea as well as sugar.

46.December 16 1773, a band of American patriots known as the Sons of Liberty

boarded three ships that were docked in the Boston harbor.
47.Frustrated and angry over taxation the colonists rebelled in 17767 by
boycotting English goods.
48.Colonial merchants also supported the boycott and began to smuggle
contraband tea from Dutch traders.
49.In 1776, the English intentionally created a market in China for opium.
50.The opium war began in 1839 where the British retaliated for setting fire to
opium warehouses by the Chinese.
51.The Chinese defeat forced them to pay Britain for the war and opium.
52.The treaty of Nanjing gave the English ownership of Hong Kong and free
rights in all Chinese ports.

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