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History of green tea in asia

The Chinese are the pioneer to found the green tea, and in China the majority of several kind of tea were found. The tea was used in China as a medicinal drink to support health with the spirit and body over a period of 5000 years. In the earlier times the tea was known as aid to health goes up with the tea of 2737 B.C. Tea was a costliest drink in ancient China. Its use was restricted with the rich part of the inhabitants. Only in emperor of Ming after the fall of the Mongolian dynasty in 1368 A.D., drinking of tea isolated from the elite to inhabitance. When China was the naval power of the world (1405-1433), the tea was among the essential supplies for the sailors.

The quantity of vitamin C in drink of tea consumed by the sailors was at this time to avoid enough the scurvy which would kill many European seamen’s more than 100 years before, but was primarily unknown to the medical authorities assigned to the fleet of more than 27.000 men on their round voyage from China towards Africa. The first forwarding of the tea towards Europe in 1606 by Dutch East India Company was green tea.

The Chinese legend indicates that during one day, an monarch boiled certain water on a fire, and a wind rapidly swept by various small trees near. During this large explosion of wind, a handful of leaves of a tree were removed from their branches, and were fell into the kettle of the monarch. It tasted the strange liquid, which formed and was happy at his found. At last it resulted to tea. Currently there are many various types of tea in the world from the plant of camellia sinensis.

The first of the less practiced teas were the white teas, whereas the later processing created the green teas, which could be kept for longer periods. During the tang emperor, the wild tea was collected and then transformed. The treatment implied roasting the tea on a tray of bamboo, crushing the tea into mash called tea dirt and then placing the tea mud in moulds. The tea was then compressed and left to harden. It was then transferred out of the mould, in the dried sun, and cooked to prevent the decomposition. It is very different the way in which the green tea is processed now a day; whereas this exercise of grinding continued in the sung emperor by the yuan dynasty, it very safe disappeared in favor of the leaf teas. Tighten teas are still made in Yuan emperor and some other provinces, they are very popular and are argued in the article of the tea, however these teas are classified variously because they undergo a period of aging.

The tea played a vital part in the tradition of the East Asia during centuries as an attached drink, healing and image of statute. It does not astonish its finding is allotted at the spiritual or splendid origins. Even the earliest text argued the health benefit of the tea.