The Historical Story of the Origin of the English name of Black Tea BLACK TEA instead of RED TEA

We usually drink too much tea. Can you tell what is black tea?

In the world's understanding, tea is divided into six tea families, while the only ones most familiar with in the West are green tea and black tea. At least 70% of consumers drink black tea, which is closely related to the former sunset empire.

In the era of the opening of new air routes, the big old capital-minded countries scrambled to seize territory all over the world to establish a colonial power.

Today, most of the tea-producing areas in the world are closely related to the British colonization, and the British East India Company, established in the 17th century, established the tea estate system, and now these areas have become the stronghold of black tea production. it has replaced the position of Chinese black tea.

Tea has a long history from discovery to drinking.

Among them, most of the tea in China comes from southern Fujian in southern China. The pronunciation of tea in Fujian dialect is TAY.

As Europeans discovered geography, navigation opened up the international trading system, from the East India Company to coastal cities in Fujian, China. The Hokkienese word "TAY" used at the time of purchase naturally followed the ships carrying tea back to Europe, and then "TAY" evolved into "TEA".

Chinese people are used to distinguishing tea names according to the color of tea soup, thus evolving the different names of six major tea families. Black tea is red tea as its name implies.

But when Europeans buy tea, they see the black color of dried tea, so they use "BLACK" to describe it, which eventually evolved into today's BLACK TEA.