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To all those of you that belive tea is from Britain, i have to let you down. Tea, considered to be that most quintessential of all British drinks and a great British tradition, is a relatively new comer to the British Isles compared to the Chinese. Tea's true origin is China, 2737 BC 1 Acording to the mythology it was the Chinese Emperor Shen Nung who gave a dried leaf from the tree above him, a shot in his boiled drinking water. Why he was drinking boiled water in the first place, is hard to tell, but it was probably because of hygenic reasons. The Chinese quikly took the cultivation of the tea leaves, and it did not take long time before everyone in Shen Nung's realm was drinking tea. Before the European explorers discovered this tea, the beverage was embreced by other adjacent nations, including the Japaneese.

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