Briefly describe the introduction of tea to the Western Regions?

In 1631, an English captain named Wyt led a fleet eastward to bring in large quantities of tea directly from China for the first time.

After the Qing Dynasty, the trend of tea drinking gradually spread to some European countries, and when tea first arrived in Europe, it was expensive, and both the Dutch and the British regarded it as a "tribute" and luxury. Later, with the continuous increase in the amount of tea input, ** gradually decreased and became a daily drink of the people. Since then, the British have become the world's largest tea drinkers.

India is the country that produces and exports the most red crushed tea, and its tea varieties originate from China. Although there are wild tea plants in India, Indians do not know how to grow and drink tea, and it was only in 1780 that the British and the Dutch began to import tea seeds from China to grow tea in India. Today, the most famous production area of black crushed tea is Assam.

That is, in 1835, tea was introduced from China and tea cultivation began. Chinese experts have traveled to instruct tea on how to grow tea, including how to produce small black teas. After the invention of the tea cutting machine, black broken tea began to appear and became a global bulk drink.

By the 19th century, the spread of tea in China spread almost all over the world, and in 1886, the export volume of tea reached 2.68 million quintals. The word "tea" in Western Chinese languages is mostly derived from the pronunciation of "tea" in the dialects of Xiamen and Guangdong in Fujian, the maritime ** port at that time. It can be said that China has given the name of tea to the world, the knowledge of tea, the cultivation and processing technology of tea, and the tea of all countries in the world, directly or indirectly, are inextricably linked with China's tea.

In short, our country is the hometown of tea, and our industrious and intelligent people have created tea as a delicious drink for the people of the world, which is worthy of our descendants' pride.

According to historical records, the earliest tea export was in the Han Dynasty, according to legend, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent an envoy to the Indian Peninsula, and the items brought were tea in addition to ** and brocade silk. Through the research of experts in recent years, the "Maritime Silk Road" that emerged in the Han Dynasty was the sea channel for ancient China and foreign traffic and cultural exchanges, mainly in the South China Sea as the center, the starting point was mainly Guangzhou, and the main commodities exported were silk, porcelain, tea and copper and ironware, which also showed that tea has begun to do export commodities, which is the earliest record of China's tea as a commodity export. Subsequently, during the Yongming period of Emperor Wu of Qi during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Chinese tea was transmitted to Turkey along with the export of silk and porcelain.

In the first year of Tang Shunzong's Yongzhen, Japan's most Cheng Zen master returned to China and brought Chinese tea seeds back to Japan. Subsequently, tea continued to spread from China to all parts of the world, so that many countries began to grow tea and have the habit of drinking tea.

The external ** of tea in the Tang Dynasty was realized through the "Ancient Tea Horse Road".

Tea and horse markets"Originated in the Tang and Song dynasties, it is a traditional exchange between the Han and Tibetan ethnic groups in the history of western China with tea changing horses or horses for tea as the central content. The tea and horse market was the main form of commerce in the ancient Central Plains and the northwest ethnic minority areas, and it was actually a financial measure implemented by the imperial court in the areas where the western nomads did not have the conditions for taxation.