Ep. 140-12 | Tea-mania Takes Europe By Storm
The China History Podcast
Laszlo Montgomery
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2015
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
As tea did everywhere it was introduced to, Europeans were no less enthusiastic than anyone else. It started off with the royals and aristocrats. But once prices came down and the haves and have-nots both got to enjoy it, the demand will become insatiable. The Russian tea caravans are also explored in this episode.
Though their tea culture was different from the ways of the Europeans, Russian people loved their tea no less. During the Qing Dynasty, tea just kept getting better. We look at the tea-loving Qianlong Emperor and his contributions to tea culture. We close the episode with the story of John Dodd and Li Chunsheng, the fathers of Taiwan's tea industry.
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| 0:57.2 | Greetings everyone Lhasla Montgomery here history of tea part 12 thanks to everyone who gave this show a chance and are still suffering through your humble narrator's presentation. |
| 1:08.0 | Last time I told you one of the stories about how the Chinese tea makers and the Wu Yewi mountains of Foodjean turned lemons into lemonade |
| 1:17.2 | with the invention of a black tea that the Europeans went crazy for. These became the famous black teas of their day, Bohe, Cheeman, and Congo. |
| 1:29.0 | The green tea of this age was known as Heisen tea, Along with Songlo, Bohe and Congu, Hyacinth made up the four big teas of 18th and 19th century |
| 1:39.9 | global export tea trade. All the China tea clipper ships, all the smugglers of tea, |
| 1:46.4 | overwhelmingly. Most of the tea leaving China and heading to Europe was almost always one of these four kinds or a combination of them. |
| 1:56.3 | There were also others, but these were the main ones you always read about in the history books |
| 2:00.9 | and saw their names mentioned in some of the literature from the 18th and 19th century. |
| 2:05.6 | But it's in the 1600s where all the action begins to happen in Europe. |
| 2:11.1 | 1610, as I said, the first tea reached the Netherlands, showing up in the Hague. |
| 2:17.0 | It took a while to spread the word far and wide enough. |
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