Ep. 140-9 | The Ming Dynasty Tea Revolution
The China History Podcast
Laszlo Montgomery
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2015
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Tea's epic story continues on the heels of the advances made in tea production and tea culture during the Song. After surviving the Mongol Yuan Dynasty, Camellia sinensis experiences a sea change of improvements beginning with Ming Dynasty founding emperor, Zhu Yuanzhang. Now tea starts to become more familiar to us after this Hongwu Emperor demands that all future tribute teas must be sent in loose-leaf form.
With the introduction of loose-leaf tea came greater demands for tea-ware. The history of the kilns of Jingdezhen 景德镇 is introduced, along with their calling card: Blue and White porcelain, China's first global brand. Other innovations such as teas scented with flowers and the "Tea Manual" of Zhu Quan 朱权 are also discussed.
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| 0:57.0 | Hey everyone, Lause on Montgomery again, Tea History Podcast, episode 9 this time. |
| 1:06.3 | The focus today will be on tea during the Ming Dynasty. |
| 1:10.5 | Blue and White Porcelain. That's one of the icons of the Ming. And today we'll look at that too, as well as the town that made it famous. |
| 1:20.0 | We left off last time in the Song Dynasty and saw how tea progress since the time of the tongue. |
| 1:25.3 | We looked at Mocha, tea powder, Taiziang, Huizong, Aesai, Muayoae and the-Tee culture. And from the day |
| 1:35.0 | Jaukwanin founded the dynasty, China was surrounded by these tough guys who were |
| 1:41.0 | always trying to use their brawn and fighting abilities, not to mention surplus horses, |
| 1:46.7 | to overwhelm the song. The Kitan Liao first humbled the song, |
| 1:52.0 | then the church in Jin knocked out the Kitan and as an encore they went on and finished up the northern song. And then finally the end came for the Jin in 1234. The Mongol forces ran roughshot over the |
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