Source: http://www.ca-medicalnews.com/tea-history-and-origin.html
Monday 28 October 2013
Tea: History And Origin
The second emperor of China, Shen Nung, is believed to have discovered tea when the leaf of the plant Camellia sinensis blew into his cup of hot water (2737 BCE). The first European to encounter tea and write about it was the Portuguese Jesuit missionary Father Jasper de Cruz in 1560. Around 1650, the Dutch [...]
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