Today I found that Argentina and Uruguayans love to drink yerba mate, and many beautiful women like middle-aged and elderly Chinese uncles like holding a bottle of hot water pot in one hand and a yerba mate tea cup in the other, drinking wherever they go, tea does not leave their mouths.
Maté tea, cimarrón, also known as yerba mate, is a traditional South American herbal tea rich in caffeine, whose main ingredient is Paraguayan holly.
The dried leaves of Paraguayan holly are soaked in water and made into tea. It is mainly prevalent in South America such as Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Brazil, and is now attracting more and more attention in Europe, America, the Middle East and Asia.
Yerba mate is a plant of the genus Holly in the holly family, native to the subtropical region of South America, known as the "national treasure of Argentina" and "green gold".
A tea soup made by steeping the leaves in hot water is called yerba mate.
Yerba mate contains chlorogenic acids, which is a very beneficial ingredient for the human body, which can reduce cholesterol, alleviate diabetes, stomach ulcers, promote blood circulation, and also diuretic, refreshing and relieving functions.
The Guarani people living in present-day Paraguay, southeastern Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, and Uruguay were the first to drink yerba mate, and the Tupi people in neighboring areas also spread yerba mate.
It was later sold in parts of southern Brazil and northeastern Argentina, from which its scientific name (Paraguayan holly Ilex paraguariensis) was derived.
In the late 16th century, as Europeans colonized Paraguay, yerba mate became more widely drunk, spreading to the La Plata River Valley in the 17th century, and later to Peru and Chile, and yerba mate became Paraguay's main commodity, more important than tobacco, cotton and beef, and indigenous people were driven to harvest wild yerba mate.
In the mid-17th century, Jesuit priests domesticated yerba mate and opened plantations in the Jesuit mission village in the Argentine province of Misiones, competing fiercely with the wild yerba mate industry in Paraguay.
In the 1770s, Jesuit priests were expelled and the yerba mate plantation was reduced to ruins. #黃劍博采风追影, #皇氏古建築大全, Jumbo Huang, #JumboHeritageList
