Tea Drinking - do not chop wood
Do you like tea? You are not alone! This - the most popular beverage in the world: his daily drink two billion people. But most of them do not know about it very interesting!
Where did that he took
Chinese legend has it that the first tea bush grew from abandoned land cut off age of the Buddha. A righteous man accidentally fell asleep while praying, and when he awoke, he was angry at himself and cut off his eyelids so that the eyes never stuck together. In Chinese and Japanese word "tea" and "forever" are transmitted by the same characters.
In China, tea has hundreds of names, but almost all present hieroglyph meaning "young leaf". In the north, where the tea imported into Russia, it is pronounced "cha": hence the Russian word "tea". In Europe, he found himself out of southern China, where the syllable is pronounced "t'a". Hence the English tea, French and German thee Tee.
Tea bush - a close "relative" camellias. In the wild, it sometimes reaches 15 meters in height. But its size is usually much more modest.
Many people think that black and green tea are made from different plant species - and wrong! The whole secret in the technology of processing the leaves. Production of black tea consists of five stages - withering, fermentation, twisting, drying and sorting. If you skip the stage of fermentation, you get green tea. Red and yellow teas - intermediate options, the fermentation takes place in them until the end.
In Europe, the yellow tea is almost unknown, because for many centuries under penalty of death was forbidden to transport it from China. (Crimes related to tea, especially smuggling, were punished severely in the Celestial Empire. Thus, in the XVI century for the transfer of tea to foreigners was quartered in-law of the emperor!)
In the tea leaves contain more caffeine than coffee beans. Why coffee more harmful to your health? First, the effect of caffeine in tea softens tannin. Secondly, tea for brewing takes less than coffee.
Case Technology
The main enemy of tea leaf - air! The more open a can of tea, the greater the distance between the stopper and its content, the faster it deteriorates. Ideal packaging - small, at 50 grams, porcelain and glass tea-caddy. They can not be open when cutting meat, fish, garlic, onion - tea immediately absorb the smell! Generally it's better to keep away from other products, and from the kitchen.
Freshly brewed tea should be drunk within 15 minutes, and pour the remains relentlessly: the aroma and useful substances from them still has evaporated. Chinese proverb says: "The fresh tea is like a balm. Tea, left for the night, like a snake".
Put the kettle with water on the fire, not an eye on him. Ideal for brewing time will come when the water boils "white key", that is, becomes white because of the many rising to the surface of tiny bubbles.
The best way to brew tea in a teapot geometrically regular shape (sphere, cylinder). Hot water should be poured up to half of the teapot, and a container of simple shape is easier to define the middle.
Characteristics of the national tea
Habitual to us a cup with handle was invented only in 1730 in Vienna. Prior to that, fifteen hundred years tea drinking from bowls. Residents of many eastern countries still are loyal to this tradition. In Iran and Turkey in the course of a glass-shaped (the Iranians call them "ormud", Turks - "a mess"). They drink for a long time remains hot.
Drink tea with lemon first hit upon Russian! From this habit they picked up the entire world.
The emergence of Indian tea, we are obliged to the British. In 1834, the British colonialists planted there first and established a plantation production. The Indians still prefer to drink tea with milk, the English fashion.
Turkmens brewed tea on camel's milk. Uzbeks add to it pepper. In Latin America, its cold drink with rum and pineapple. In Japan - with Pomeranz. In Iran, the glass is put cinnamon and ginger. Tibetans are not only drink tea, but eat it dry!
Do you like tea? You are not alone! This - the most popular beverage in the world: his daily drink two billion people. But most of them do not know about it very interesting!
Where did that he took
Chinese legend has it that the first tea bush grew from abandoned land cut off age of the Buddha. A righteous man accidentally fell asleep while praying, and when he awoke, he was angry at himself and cut off his eyelids so that the eyes never stuck together. In Chinese and Japanese word "tea" and "forever" are transmitted by the same characters.
In China, tea has hundreds of names, but almost all present hieroglyph meaning "young leaf". In the north, where the tea imported into Russia, it is pronounced "cha": hence the Russian word "tea". In Europe, he found himself out of southern China, where the syllable is pronounced "t'a". Hence the English tea, French and German thee Tee.
Tea bush - a close "relative" camellias. In the wild, it sometimes reaches 15 meters in height. But its size is usually much more modest.
Many people think that black and green tea are made from different plant species - and wrong! The whole secret in the technology of processing the leaves. Production of black tea consists of five stages - withering, fermentation, twisting, drying and sorting. If you skip the stage of fermentation, you get green tea. Red and yellow teas - intermediate options, the fermentation takes place in them until the end.
In Europe, the yellow tea is almost unknown, because for many centuries under penalty of death was forbidden to transport it from China. (Crimes related to tea, especially smuggling, were punished severely in the Celestial Empire. Thus, in the XVI century for the transfer of tea to foreigners was quartered in-law of the emperor!)
In the tea leaves contain more caffeine than coffee beans. Why coffee more harmful to your health? First, the effect of caffeine in tea softens tannin. Secondly, tea for brewing takes less than coffee.
Case Technology
The main enemy of tea leaf - air! The more open a can of tea, the greater the distance between the stopper and its content, the faster it deteriorates. Ideal packaging - small, at 50 grams, porcelain and glass tea-caddy. They can not be open when cutting meat, fish, garlic, onion - tea immediately absorb the smell! Generally it's better to keep away from other products, and from the kitchen.
Freshly brewed tea should be drunk within 15 minutes, and pour the remains relentlessly: the aroma and useful substances from them still has evaporated. Chinese proverb says: "The fresh tea is like a balm. Tea, left for the night, like a snake".
Put the kettle with water on the fire, not an eye on him. Ideal for brewing time will come when the water boils "white key", that is, becomes white because of the many rising to the surface of tiny bubbles.
The best way to brew tea in a teapot geometrically regular shape (sphere, cylinder). Hot water should be poured up to half of the teapot, and a container of simple shape is easier to define the middle.
Characteristics of the national tea
Habitual to us a cup with handle was invented only in 1730 in Vienna. Prior to that, fifteen hundred years tea drinking from bowls. Residents of many eastern countries still are loyal to this tradition. In Iran and Turkey in the course of a glass-shaped (the Iranians call them "ormud", Turks - "a mess"). They drink for a long time remains hot.
Drink tea with lemon first hit upon Russian! From this habit they picked up the entire world.
The emergence of Indian tea, we are obliged to the British. In 1834, the British colonialists planted there first and established a plantation production. The Indians still prefer to drink tea with milk, the English fashion.
Turkmens brewed tea on camel's milk. Uzbeks add to it pepper. In Latin America, its cold drink with rum and pineapple. In Japan - with Pomeranz. In Iran, the glass is put cinnamon and ginger. Tibetans are not only drink tea, but eat it dry!
