British black tea culture

British black tea is a kind of fermented tea. With the different degree of fermentation, it presents different colors, smells and tastes, just like wine, which makes people feel elusive.

British people's love for black tea is world-famous. At many different times of the day, the British will take time out for a cup of tea. This tradition has actually been circulated as early as18th century. In Europe in the18th century, in addition to the wine widely brewed by missionaries, a cup of mellow black tea was highly regarded by the British aristocrats at that time, and even regarded as showing off their aristocratic status, and it must be brewed by top black tea from China or India. Black tea became the most popular drink in Britain at that time, replacing the position of wine in catering.

The most traditional afternoon tea is undoubtedly English afternoon tea. Although the complicated etiquette of English afternoon tea has been simplified, the correct brewing method, elegant tea decorations and rich refreshments have been handed down as the tradition of drinking tea and become the orthodox English black tea culture.

British black tea shows a gentleman's taste and luxurious temperament.

Soaking method of British black tea

Traditional English black tea needs a set of complicated tea sets to brew and taste. Elegant and noble bone China tea set, painted with exquisite patterns of British plants and flowers, simple and elegant. English tea sets are all complete sets of cups with gold edges, which are very collectible. In order to increase the flavor, milk tea can be made by adding milk to black tea, but milk should be added first to avoid spherical grease on the surface of tea. In orthodox English tea banquets, lemons are not encouraged to spoil the flavor of good tea.

The history of British black tea

Everything related to Britain is elegant and noble. Polo is like this, English whisky is like this. Of course, the world-famous English black tea is more attractive and gentlemanly. A cup of English black tea with rich flavor and deep color has once charmed countless royal aristocrats, adding charming colors to English black tea culture.

Speaking of English black tea, many people stubbornly believe that it was born in England on the European continent, but it was actually produced in China thousands of miles away. You can't find the world-famous British black tea plantation in Britain.

This is because the British people love black tea and have a long drinking tradition, so that black tea originated in China and planted in India is prefixed with "Britain", so the name "British black tea" has been misunderstood by many people.

The reason why black tea became a worldwide beverage was closely related to the expansion of China during the Sui and Tang Dynasties and the British Empire. In the 5th century, tea from China was transported to distant Turkey. Since the Sui and Tang Dynasties, China's contacts with the West have never stopped. Although the trade of tea has a long history, at that time, China only exported tea, not tea varieties.

By the 1980s of 18, an English tree planter named Robert Fu put tea seeds in a portable incubator made of special glass, secretly took them away by a ship bound for India, and then cultivated 65,438+10,000 tea seedlings in India, resulting in a large-scale tea garden.

The black tea it produces is shipped to Britain for sale. Due to long-distance trafficking, the amount of black tea is small, and the value of black tea doubles after arriving in Britain. Only wealthy British aristocrats can taste this precious and luxurious "Indian black tea", and then the British black tea culture gradually formed.

At that time, the British Empire, with its strong national strength and advanced trade means, planted tea trees in more than 50 countries around the world and promoted tea as an international beverage. The birth of black tea solved the problem that tea lost its fragrance and flavor due to long-distance transportation. The Qing Dynasty was the heyday of tea trade in China.

At that time, due to the increasing demand for black tea from the British and even European royal families, European merchant ships loaded with tea sailed all over the world. In the heyday of world tea trade, 60% of China's exports were black tea.

Later, European countries such as Britain and France began to buy tea from India and Ceylon. After years of tempering and time precipitation, the first-class black tea produced in two famous producing areas in India has already become the best "British black tea" in the world.

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