Ep. 140-3 | Tea Hits the Big Time
The China History Podcast
Laszlo Montgomery
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2014
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
After centuries of trial and error, tea starts to transform from a bitter medicinal brew into something worthy of presenting to the emperor as tribute. Tea's development during the 326 years of the Sui and Tang dynasties (581-907 AD) is introduced this time. Not only do the people of China embrace tea. Those people who surrounded China to the north and to the west also took a quick liking to this drink. The important role tea played in Tibet and other border regions is also discussed, as well as the fabled trade route known as the ancient Tea-Horse Road 茶马古道.
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| 0:56.6 | Hey everyone L Lauslam Montgomery here, back again with Part 3. On behalf of everyone here at the Tea History Podcast, welcome back. |
| 1:00.8 | Last episode, we looked back on T's most ancient origins in Chinese history. |
| 1:07.2 | No one knows for sure who that first Chau Ren was or T person who lived where the tea trees grew indigenously between the Brahma Putra |
| 1:16.0 | Valley and the West and Sichuan province in the East? |
| 1:20.6 | Who was that tea person who first recognized the delights? |
| 1:25.0 | Yielded by these leaves and became its first apostle. |
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| 1:32.0 | The Chinese learned the use of the tea drink of the Aboriginal tribesmen of the hill districts |
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