At the morning after we wake we will have a cup of tea. It is must for some of the people in India. Some people have interest in black tea, green tea or regular tea.
Do you know the origin of the tea. There was a story about it. Centuries ago, as the story goes, a Chinese emperor liked his drinking water to be boiled. Once during an expedition, a dried leaf from a wild tea bush accidentally fell into his cup of boiling water. The emperor liked the refreshing concoction and thus tea was born.
Today, tea is an important part of Chinese life like India. Tea drinking is an elaborate ceremonial affair and it is traditional to offer tea to guests in the best tea ware. In marriages, tea signifies faithfulness until death, and must be included among betrothal gifts.
From the wlcoming strangers to simply kick starting the day, a steaming cup of tea is a rereshing part of our daily life. Different countries have developed their own concoctions of the brew.
When we are sitting in our office, while working if take a tea break, then it will refresh us. We may get more energy to do further. Some offices will provide the tea their every-body’s own table. But some will not allow you to take the tea at their working table. There will be a tea machine. When ever the employee want to have a tea they can go to the tea point and have a cup of tea there. It will allow you a movement for the employees who is working by sitting in the chair for continuously 8 hours.
A brew prepared with the leaves, leaf buds, and inter-nodes of the Camellia sinensis plant, tea is the world’s second most popular beverage after water.
Tea traces its origins to Asia. The Yunnan province in China is said to be the birthplace of tea – the place where man discovered that boiling leaves in water can actually produce an edible drink. It has a 3200 years old plant, said to the world’s oldest cultivated tea tree.
It is interesting to know that there are at least six varieties of tea obtained from the tea tree – white, yellow, green, black and puers. Teas that are brewed with the leaves, fruits and flowers of plants other than the Camellia sinensis are referred to as herbal teas.
After reading all the above, now you may like to have a tea. Go and have good tea.
