Chai

08/03/2023

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08/03/2023

Tea is a drink obtained by cooking, brewing and / or infusing a leaf of a tea bush, which is pre—prepared in a special way.

08/03/2023

Sometimes the word "tea" is also used as the name of a tea bush — a plant species of the genus Camellia of the Tea family; in the botanical scientific literature, the name Chinese camellia (Camellia sinensis) is usually used for this species.

08/01/2023

08/01/2023

In the XVI and early XVII centuries, the Dutch dominated trade in South and Southeast Asia and the word te migrated to Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Great Britain and other countries and their colonies.

08/01/2023

Since Fujian Province is located next to Taiwan, and Fujian itself is not suitable for farming, the population smuggled tea. Since the word "tea" is pronounced like those in the Amoy dialect, Dutch and Spanish colonists adopted this pronunciation.

07/30/2023

The name of the tea that came from there — tea (chai) — was adopted by the Portuguese and brought to other colonies, such as Brazil.

07/30/2023

At that time, they traded with Zhongwan district and Guangdong Province.

07/28/2023

In different languages of the world, there are basically two different pronunciations of words representing tea, respectively tea (chai) and tea (tea). At the beginning of the colonial history of the sixteenth century, Portugal was the first to bring tea and the habit of drinking tea to Europe.

07/26/2023

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