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I’m Bruce Gulland.
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Some people drink it with food in the afternoon.
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Some people drink it to give themselves energy in the morning.
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Some people drink it as part of a ceremony.
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Some people drink it when they are sick.
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Some people drink it hot.
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Some people drink it very cold.
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People have been drinking it for hundreds of years, in hundreds of countries.
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What is it?
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Tea! Tea comes from the camellia sinensis plant.
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People pick the leaves off the plant.
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They set the leaves to dry.
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The tea leaves are ready when all the water from the leaves is evaporated.
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There are many ways to prepare the leaves before making the tea drink.
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Some tea leaves are left open to the air before they are dried.
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This makes the leaves darker.
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They will taste stronger.
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Some people mix tea leaves with flowers, oils, and other plants to give teas different tastes.
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The people who originally discovered tea developed these methods many years ago.
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The story of tea begins in China.
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Chinese history says that over 5,000 years ago, Chinese emperor Shen Nung discovered tea.
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Stories say that a dry leaf from the tea plant fell into the emperor’s cup of hot water.
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The emperor saw that his water turned dark.
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He tasted the water and liked it.
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This was the first cup of tea.
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However it started, tea became very popular in China.
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People believed that tea was healthy.
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People in China also created many different ways to prepare tea.
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In fact, a man named Lu Yu wrote a book just about tea, late in the eighth century.
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Soon after this, tea travelled to Japan.
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Japanese Buddhist priests travelled to China.
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And they brought tea back with them.
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In Japan, people developed special ceremonies to serve tea.
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Serving tea became a new form of art.
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It was most common among wealthy people.
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Tea was an important part of both Chinese and Japanese culture.
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It had travelled to other Asian countries too.
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But tea had not yet travelled anywhere else in the world.
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Finally, in the late 1500s, Portuguese travellers brought small amounts of tea back to Europe.
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Portugal was one of the first European countries to trade with China.
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Portugal worked with the Netherlands to move the tea through Europe.
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Dutch ships took tea to France and other countries on the Baltic Sea.
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Only very wealthy people had enough money to drink tea in Europe.
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It took many months to transport the tea from Asia.
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And only a limited amount was transported.
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But more countries started to trade with China.
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They also brought tea back to Europe.
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Prices became lower, and more people could drink tea.
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Today, England is the European country most known for tea.
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British traders started shipping tea to England in the late 1600s.
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Tea trade had become a very profitable business.
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England imported about 18,000 kilograms of tea a year in 1669.
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Ten years later, the country imported six times that amount of tea!
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British colonists also brought tea wherever they settled.
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Tea became very important in India.
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It is still a very important crop there.
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And Indian tea is known around the world.
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Tea played an important part in one British colony you might know.
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This colony is now known as the United States of America.
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England sent tea to America.
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But as time went on, England raised the taxes on the tea and other goods it sent.
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The people living in the colonies did not like these taxes.
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To protest the high taxes, a group of colonists took a large shipment of tea and threw it into the ocean.
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Today, this event is known as “The Boston Tea Party”.
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It was one of the most important events in the American Revolution.
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Tea has also changed over many years.
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In the past, people drank tea by putting the leaves directly into the water.
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But around 1908, an American inventor developed a new method - tea bags.
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Thomas Sullivan put the tea in a small silk bag.
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This bag of tea could be put directly into the hot water.
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At first people, in Britain did not like tea bags.
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But during World War II, people could not get their normal tea.
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So they had to use tea bags.
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Today most tea bags are made of paper.
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And they are very popular in many parts of the world.
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Today, people on every continent drink tea.
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But people in different places drink tea differently.
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In the United Kingdom, tea became part of the daily meal.
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Traditionally, two meals involved tea in British homes.
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These meals became popular in the 1600s.
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The first was afternoon tea - or “low tea”.
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This was popular among wealthy people.
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They would drink tea and eat small sandwiches of meat and bread.
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This meal happened around three o-clock in the afternoon.
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The other meal was called “high tea.” High tea was a larger meal eaten later in the night.
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It was popular among poorer people.
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In Western Asia and the Middle East, a popular way to enjoy tea is as Masala Chai.
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Masala Chai is a drink made from black tea.
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But this drink has sugar, spices and milk in it.
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Around the world, people boil plants and flowers to make drinks similar to tea.
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These are called tisanes.
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A tisane is any drink made from hot water and any plant material, except from the tea plant.
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They are also often called herbal teas.
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In areas of South America people enjoy a particular tisane.
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The drink is called Mate.
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People make it from the leaves of the yerba mate plant.
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A person puts dry yerba mate leaves into a dry gourd.
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This is a container made from a dried vegetable skin.
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He then adds water to the gourd.
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He drinks the liquid through a thin metal tube - a bombilla.
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People in Southern Africa make a drink called rooibos.
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This hot drink is made similar to tea.
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But instead of tea leaves, it uses the leaves from the rooibos plant.
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The drink is a red color, and is often called red tea.
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However you drink tea, the next time you have a cup, think of all the people around the world who are joining you!
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Enjoy! Do you drink tea?
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What kinds of tea do you drink?
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Tell us what you think!
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The writer of this program was Joshua Leo.
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The producer was Michio Ozaki.
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This program is called “The Amazing History of Tea”.
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