Chinese tea industry, the firstwas established in Bashu which now is named Sichuan Province and Chongqing municipality directly under the jurisdiction of the Central Government, then to the eastern and southern successive spread, which throughout the country.Until the Tang Dynasty, also has been spread to Japan and Korea, the 16th century was the introduction to the West. China tea culture , along with foreign trade and cultural exchanges and the development of commercial and transmitted to the world. First introduced, Japan, South Korea and subsequently spread to the South by sea in Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka and other countries, the 16 European countries to keep abreast of the times and reached the American continent and from the north into Persian, Russian.
The English word "tea" came from the sea trade port of Xiamen in Fujian and Guangdong dialect of "tea" the pronunciation. It can be said that China gave the world the name of tea, tea knowledge and the cultivation of tea processing technology, the world of tea, directly or indirectly, and Chinese tea are inextricably linked.
"British history of Chinese science experts Needham said" Chinise tea,following gunpowder, paper making, printing, the compass after the four great inventions of the human contribution, is the fifth great contribution to the world."
Now there are more than 50 countries on five continents have been planting tea, about 120 countries import tea from China, more than 50 million people around the world like tea. Tea and tea culture is a global trend.
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