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western countries In the 7th century, tea was introduced to Turkey. After Tang and Song Dynasty, Chinese tea culture radiates from china, and formed an Asian tea culture circle. But tea wasn't widely accepted by western countries until 17th century. Generally the spread of Chinese tea can be divided into 3 phases: The first stage: western countries knew only general knowledge of tea in about Yuan Dynasty, after Genghis khan's anabasis to Europe. The second stage: a period of small-scale commerce in Ming Dynasty, about 16th century. The third stage: a period of large quantity trading. Many people know that there is a Silk Road in ancient China. In fact, the trading of tea had exceeded the trading of silk. So many scholars said the Silk Road should be the Silk and Tea road instead. There were 4 landways and 3 seaways in tea trading. Landway: 1. Chang An--Sinkiang--Mid Asia--western Asia--Mediterranean--East Europe. 2. Inner Mongolia--Mongolia--Russia 3. Northeast China--Korea 4. From tea producing areas directly to South Asia. Seaway: 1. Zhejiang--Japan 2. Fujian and Guangzhou--neighbouring countries--Malaya, India and Mediterranean--european countries. 3. From Guangzhou to American countries directly through the pacific กก |
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