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 About tea
Everyone knows tea consists of the dried leaves from the evergreen tea plant, which is actually a tree. The botanical name is Camellia sinensis with the two subspecies var. sinensis ( tea) and var. assamica (
History Legend has it that a gust of wind led the Chinese emperor Shen-nung to discover tea almost 5,000 years ago, when some tealeaves blew into a pot of boiling water. Soon this accidental discovery became 's favourite brew. More than three millennia passed during which the culture of tea drinking remained a purely Chinese privilege Inspired, the Japanese turned tea drinking into an almost holy ceremony and tea became their national drink. That still applies today. Later, when the Europeans "conquered the world" with their ships in the 16th and 17th centuries, they also brought tea to the "old world" as a valued commodity. It was above all the English who cultivated tea drinking and adopted it as an essential part of their lives. English immigrants introduced tea to the at the end of the 17th century, and before long it became ever more popular there too, especially among the well-to-do. It was such a hit that tea ccupied third place among all the goods imported to
Ironically dubbed the "Boston Tea Party", this incident marked the beginning of the War of Independence against English rule in .
The tea import monopoly ended in 1834 and British shipping suddenly faced stiff competition, especially from the . To gain the upper hand, the shipping companies built so-called tea clippers. These were sailing ships with four or more masts, a sharply-raked bow and narrow hull. They had a relatively high cargo capacity with low tonnage and achieved stunning speeds. One of the most famous British tea clippers is the Cutty Sark, built in 1869 and today on display in Today, at an annual global production of some 2.9 million tonnes, tea is the world's favourite drink (second only to water).
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