There are three major drinks in the world, in fact, many people know tea and coffee, and the third is cocoa. It is the raw material for making chocolate.
Cocoa is native to Central America, with the largest production area in Africa. The main producing areas of coffee are in Latin America. The main production areas of tea are Asia, China, India, Pakistan and other places. Western developed countries are also consumers of tea.
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Compared to the three drinks, cocoa is more exciting, while coffee is more romantic, and tea leaves have a natural fragrance.
What is very surprising is that cocoa and sycamore are close relatives, some say that sycamore seeds can be eaten, some say that they cannot be eaten, but cocoa is a good thing for the soul, how can this be reasonable. There is also a close relative is Pingpo, growing in the south of China, interested can be checked, most of the northerners do not understand, because this plant yield is too small, the value is not large, so there is no scale planting.
In contrast, the production environment of cocoa has higher requirements for geographical latitude, generally grown within 20 degrees latitude, which is hot and rainy areas, which is more suitable for cocoa growth. The main producing countries are Ghana, Brazil, Nigeria, Côte d'Ivoire, Malaysia and so on.
Unlike cocoa, which is a tall tree, coffee is a shrub or small tree. Only Hainan Island and Yunnan produce in China. In the earliest days, African herders found that a sheep would be excited to eat a small plant, so they also used it themselves, and the effect was indeed good. This is where coffee comes from.
Tea is the first of the three beverages that should be given. It belongs to the camellia family. China was the first country to discover and utilize tea.
Lu Yu has the first tea sutra, and it is said that the tea maker, the southern Kamuya, is one foot, two feet, and even tens of feet.
Now China has 17 provinces and regions, and more than 900 counties grow tea. Later, it spread to more than 50 countries and regions in the world.
It is said that an ancient tea plant was unearthed 6,000 years ago in Yuyao, Zhejiang, and is believed to be the birthplace of the earliest tea plant.
The UK does not produce tea, but it is the country with the largest per capita consumption of tea in the world. It imports up to 140,000 tons per year. In this comparison, although China is the homeland of tea plants, drinking tea is not as good as Britain. People of all walks of life like to drink tea, mainly black tea. Drink tea four times a day. English black tea is usually topped with lemon, sugar cubes, oranges, roses or fresh milk.
Conclusion
There are many people who drink tea all over the world, which has created the status of tea as the first of the three major drinks. This cannot but be said to be the influence of Chinese cultural transmission.
Related to tea, porcelain tea sets are also derived, which are inseparable from Chinese culture. In this way, the best tea is in China, and China has a long way to go to do a good job in tea culture.