3000 B.C Shen Nong discovered tea and started to cultivate it
2000 B.C Zhou Dynasty , King Wen said he recieved tea as tribute from tribal heads
300 B.C Fresh leaves were boiled with water, got to be dalily beverage
221 - 206 B.C Qin Dynasty, Shangdong governor Liu Kun wrote , his nephew sent some "real Tea" when he
was feeling old and depressed
317 - 420 Easten Jin Dynasty, Poet described " Fragrant tea superimposes the six passions; the taste for it
spreads over the nine districts"
347 A book about tea by Chang Ju, Traetise on the Kingdom of Huayang
467 Chinese records noted tea was bigun to use to bater trade with Turkic Peoples
500 A oldest medicine book , Shen Nong's Canon of Medicinal Herbs
618 - 907 Tang Dynasty , Tea drinking became an art
729 Tang Dynasty, Emperor Shomu served tea to a 100 Japanese Monks, then the Japanese surmise that
brought back tea was their mission to China
733 - 804 Lu Yu achieved a famouse book " The Book of Tea "
960 - 1279 Song Dynasty allowed for more subsidiary crops , this became possible for tea to move from
Luxury role to a necessity
1107 A book by Song Dynasty King Hui Zong , Treatise on Tea (Da Guan Cha Lun)
1012 The greatest tea tasters probably were burn in
1285 Kublai Khan Marco Polo in his Polo Travels wrote, finance minister had been reprimanded for
enforcing the tea tax too ruthlessly
1610 The first tea reached Europe on Dutch ships from Java
1610 The value of tea as a commodity had been recognized
1630s on The Dutch, Europe's first tea drinkers did not begin us milk , but often with saffron, ginger, nutmeg, and salt.
1637 In Dutch East India Co. Journey dairy : As tea begins to come int o use by some of people , we expected some jors of Chinese as well
as Japanese tea with each ship"
1637 Peter Mundy , a Chinese samovar , chronicled his arrival with 1st Brithish ship to Macao, developed a Chinese teapot taht sat atop a brass
charcoal burner. said by famous tea authority Willianm Ukers
1655 A member of Dutch East India Co. delegated to the Chinese emperor. Officials who entertained them at dinner in Guangzhou (Canton) served
very hot tea boiled down by a third and drunk with one-fourth warm milk and a little salt.
1658 a solid evidence of the sale of tea in England is a newspaper advertisement for the Thomas Garway coffeehouse in London. It read: " That
excellent and by all Physitians approved drink called by the Chineans tcha, by other nations Tay alias Tea is sold at
the Sultaness Head a cophee house in sweeting Rents by the Royal Exchange London." The price up to 6 ~ 10 pounds sterling
per pound of tea (210 ~335 HKD/Kg today)
1660 Charles II came to the throne in Restoration , the East India Co. presented the royal couples two pounds of tea to anxiousely win their favor,
although the tea was brought from a coffeehouse.
1660 The Carway's London broadsheet declares : "being prepared with Milk and Water, strengtheneth the inward parts. "
1670 The East India Co. started to import tea from Orient.
1675 Tea was availabel in food stores and was in general use in Holland
1670 Tea added Milk was invented by Madamede la sabilere. by madame de Sevigny, whose letters published remarked the idea origin, even some
think it was from Germany or France . But the custom of milk, carried over to Britain,
and became to England norm.
1684 The East India Co. established his 1st company at Canton , soon tea made over 90% export trade of China to England, then silk, chinaware ,
other ceramics. Tea authoriities Joel, David, and Karl schapira perceptively observe: " tea was served a smuch for
its strangeness as for its taste. Drinking tea was one way aristocrats of the West could participate in the exciting
voyages of discovery being made in their age. Tea trade was a respectalbe occupation, who took it, for example
in East India Co., economists James Mill and his son John stuart Mill, novelist Thomas Love Peacock, & essayist Chales Lamb.
1689-1880 Treaty of Nerchinsk accutioned , at board of north Ulan Bator, started USS-China tea special for brick tea and furs caravan trade, then to
Guangzhou and HanKo
1700 Russia was receiving over 600 camel loads of tea annually
1701 "The Tea-Smitten Ladies" : The craze for tea parties finally resulted in the ruin of many homes
1717 A great Tea businessman opene dhis 1st teahouse , but took his 1st cup of tea in 1660 and a druggist recommended tea to his wife for her cold
in 1667
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