Tea Culture

Russian Tea CultureThe Russian people have been drinking tea for centuries and it is one of the most common beverages in their diets,there are 82% of Russians drink it daily. The beverage has been aro...

When Robert Fortune first began working as a gardener at the Edinburgh Royal Botanic Garden, his passion for botany and tea was born. This job left him with an lifelong addiction to these two pursuits...

England's first tea drinking queen, Catherine of Braganza was an Portuguese princess who came to England with Charles II. She became his wife in 1662 and introduced this new fashionable drink which th...

Tea has been a part of Chinese culture for thousands of years. Lu Yu, a Scholar from the Tang Dynasty in China, wrote an influential book on tea called "The Classic of Tea" in 760 AD. This book introd...

"In the fifteenth century," says Okakura Kakuzo（冈仓天心）, “Japan ennobled tea into a religion of estheticism—teaism".The Japanese had been drinking tea for centuries before the Heinan period(平安時代,794-115...