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History of tea
Tea is a drink that will guide us through everyday life and many people might therefore seem mundane and ordinary. It is almost unbelievable that appeared in Europe only a few hundred years ago. The richest drinks over the centuries became the drink that almost everyone will love.No one can say exactly when the tea is, and who first appeared in the wetting fluid delicious fragrant his lips. Legends depict like? Discoverer? tea and also a great healer of the Chinese emperor Shen-Mungo, who has nearly a five thousand years ago boiled highly polluted water, he would quench their thirst and to which he? unhappy? accidentally dropped some leaves from a tree. Angry and thirsty, was then bent down and dipped his hands into a tea to boiling water from the leaves removed. He was drugged sweet aroma that is emitted from the container and decided to taste the tea.

Some attribute the Chinese tea divine origin and combine this liquid with a Buddhist monk Bódhirmu. He swore all the faithful that he would pray for life, but soon fell asleep from exhaustion. Monk is coming very angry that so easily succumbed to sleep and the anger he cut off both eyelids. The place where dotkal country grew shrub from whose leaves the drink refreshed tired body and mind stimulating.

The oldest herbarium, which carries a record of tea come from China and originated 1,500 years ago. Legends of the miraculous power of tea, however, told of many centuries earlier. In the 6th century, tea became the drink of the aristocracy, for 4 centuries later všelidovým drink, probably due to poor hygienic conditions in this area did not allow not-boiled drinking water. The flowers are produced tea candles to the temples, the tiny leaves and seeds of expensive cigarettes served to oil extraction. The Sung Dynasty, enjoyed the greatest popularity of so-called whisked tea, the Japanese took over the preparation for their day-long tea ceremony. In some provinces was particularly special care to prepare the yellow tea, whose leaves had been harvested from the morning dew. At harvest time, this outstanding plant specially trained pickers could not eat any strongly scented food, the plants were allowed to approach each only after a thorough bath and gloves specially made for this work. From times of Ming Dynasty, roughly from 14 century, came the first reports about pairing tea as we know it today. China exported 1 19th century, most tea in the world, thanks to British colonial policy, however, been overtaken by India, which now holds the lead in exports of tea worldwide.

Tea has also spread to Tibet. The local nomads drink it with melted yak butter and salt, which is a way for us Europeans quite unusual. Mixing oil and tea have bleak and cold conditions of Tibet are good reasons? Tea has a high energy value, restoring the power of people.

In Japan tea once grew wild, but later became a very common beverage and its preparation in the 15th century began to apply the tea ceremony adopted from China. Japanese families had special tea rooms or houses with very small entrance to anyone who wanted to taste, before he had to bend down and express the humility of the drink. The tradition of the tea ceremony is still practiced today, is used Macca quality tea, which is the best tea to help prepare the equipment up to 4 hours.

In India, which has long been an English colony, the real interest in the tea found only in the 19 century. Today, the best and most expensive tea considers the Darjeeling tea.

The Ceylon began with the cultivation of tea and a little bit? Accidentally?. There was a particular favorite coffee plants, which are due to rust, which destroyed the plantations did not grow further. On this island tea is valued according to the altitude at which it starts. The best quality tea comes from the heights around 2000 m rule applies here, that the greater height tea grows, the higher its price.

With Russia, we also know we do tea. The tradition of tea in this country is not nearly as long as it would suggest that country’s common border with China. Many residents of this country took a cup of tea and began to pass on saying, Where they have a good tea, drink less vodka.

In Europe, tea was given in 16 century. Although this drink got mnnoho supporters found there as well as opponents who claimed that men drink tea loses its attractiveness to women. After Portugal and the Netherlands became the third power involved in trade with China, India and England, whose King Charles II in 1660 he married Catherine Portuguese. Both allegedly beat a great lover of tea and Catherine quipment comprising several pounds of tea spread the love of the drink throughout Aglio.

Before going to Australia on business, a man drove his Lamborghini to a downtown New York City bank and went in to ask for an immediate loan of $3,000.

The loan officer, taken aback, requested collateral and so the man said, “Well then, here are the keys to my Lamborghini.”

The loan officer promptly had his luxury car driven into the bank’s underground parking for safe keeping, and gave him $3,000.

Two weeks later, the man walked through the bank’s doors, and asked to settle up his loan and get his Lamborghini back. “That will be $3,000 in principal, and $9.20 in interest”, the loan officer said. The man wrote out a check and started to walk away.

“Wait sir”, the loan officer said, “while you were gone, I found out you are a millionaire. Why in the world would you need to borrow so few, only $3,000?”

The millionaire smiled. “Where else could I park my Lamborghini in Manhattan for two weeks and pay only $9.20?

A old pirate walks into a bar and the bartender says, “Hey, I haven’t seen you in a while. What happened, you look terrible!”
“What do you mean?” the old pirate replies, “I’m fine.”
The bartender says, “But what about that wooden leg? You didn’t have that before.”
“Well,” says the pirate matey, “We were in a battle at sea against a enemy frigate and a cannon ball hit my leg but the surgeon fixed me up, and I’m fine, really.”
“Yeah,” says the bartender, “But what about that hook? Last time I saw you, you had both hands.”
“Well,” says the pirate, “We were in another pirate raid and we boarded the enemy galleon. I was in a sabre fight and my hand was cut off but the surgeon fixed me up with this hook, and I feel great, really.”
“Oh,” says the bartender, “What about that eye patch? Last time you were in here you had both eyes.”
“Well,” says the old pirate, “One day when we were at sea, some birds were flying over the ship. I looked up, and one of them shat in my eye.”
“So?” replied the bartender, “what happened? You couldn’t have lost an eye just from some bird shit!”
“Well,” says the old pirate, “I really wasn’t used to the hook yet.”

Girl says to her Boyfriend: Now it is time we should marry.

Boy: That’s ok, but who will marry us?

Two astronauts land on Mars. Their mission: to check whether there is oxygen on the planet.
“Give me the box of matches” says one. “Either it burns and there is oxygen, or nothing happens.”
He takes the box, and is ready to strike a match when out of the blue, a Martian appears waving all his arms…”No, no, don’t!”
The two guys look at each other, worried. Could there be an unknown explosive gas on Mars? But he takes another match….
And now, a crowd of hysterical Martians is coming, all waving their arms: “No, no, don’t do that!”
“It looks serious. What are they afraid of? But - we’re here for Science, to know if man can breathe on Mars.”
He strikes a match, which flames up, burns down, and….. nothing happens.
“Why did you want to prevent us from striking a match?”
The leader of the Martians says, “Today is Shabbos!”