Tea's Ancient Beginnings in China | The Tea History Podcast | Ep. 1

Welcome to the inaugural episode of The Tea History Podcast. This is a video companion of the podcast audio that will create a visual aid to the subject matter.

In this first episode, we'll explore tea's humble beginnings in the Ba and Shu States. We'll also look at the mythical story of the discovery of tea by the Divine Farmer, Shen Nong. We have a long way to go.

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[MarkBalahadiaOfficial]

Correction: there’s technically two species used for tea making: Camellia sinensis and the less common Camellia taliensis, a closely related species used in making high quality pu’er, white and black tea in Yunnan. The species name, taliensis, is in reference to it’s common name 大理茶 (tálìchá), which is reference to Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture.

[MadHatter]

The story of Shennong personally taste-testing hundreds of plants to see which were poisonous and which weren’t is just so metal.

[dr.s.p.]

What a lovely presentation and the commentary was easy on the ears and the Chinese names and descriptions was perfect in pronunciation and tone. Thumbs up!

[TenzinT]

I saw a lot of tea documentaries on Youtube. This one is the best so far 🙂

[emmahardesty]

Very nice, good information. Since the only persons named as the first to do anything in most of recorded history are men, it's only fair to remember that the first person to brew tea was a woman in the kitchen trying out some new plant she'd come across, in probably a very humble household.

[nelsongonzalez]

Cultivating your brains with a cup of herbal medicinal tea. A great enlightening plant.

[angelanluna]

wow. I know i love tea in my heart and now I know the why and listening to you will be s as soothing and satisfying as the cup of warm tea I drink with me. Thank you for this episode, and the time and effort brought to us. Happy tea time to you!

[dmchld]

Tea, the name is similar all across Asia. In Mandarin and Cantonese, it is called "Cha", in Hindi it is called "Chai". My own dialect, that is similar to Fujian it is "Da".

[RichMitch]

This beverage has picked me up many a time, looking forward to hearing all about tea all over again!

[carlgranados]

You should mention teas of all kinds have been around for longer than the teas we drink everyday these days... which is really what this vid and history is about.

[colinellesmere]

Finally getting around to the tea episodes. Not before time as I live in the Golden Triangle area of China where the famous Puer Tea originates. Six famous tea mountains here. Five in Xishuangbanna one in Puer. Great mountains to walk in and cycle. Jinnuo, Nanuo, Bulang, Yiwu, Kongming and Jingmai which is in Puer. Names differ on the net but these are the locally used words. Oldest tea tree 1000 yeaes old. Most expensive tea currently. Laobanzhang at around 15000Yuan a kg or over 2000US dollars. A half decent Puer tea is around 100-150 a kg locally. Much more outside the area and much much more abroad. But 130US dollars for decent tea from trees at least 100 years old is worth it. Living locally however we never need to buy Pure tea. It's just given as presents in the age old traditional custom. There are certain aspects of Chinese mainstream modern society I would rather not interact with. But the tea culture is superb. Walk in a room of freshly dried tea leaves. One of the world's great fragrances.

[TheSanbao]

Thank you, drinking Oolongtea's from Taiwan since 19 years.

[javiergonzalolascano]

Great story! In Portuguese, like in many other languages, remains the world cha.

[magicmomo]

Hello Montgomery I LOVE ❤️ YOUR VIDEO!!!! Keep it up and congrats on making 10000 SUBSCRIBERS ❤️ 💕 💗

[deanproquo]

I did my own research & enjoy the science behind it.

[joeguan]

Beautiful Channel I’m from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 and I love China!!! Live your channe too

[homeequityloan]

Awesome work! Listened to this with a friend on the way home from work.

[vx]

China has the wildest legends when it comes to tea. First one that comes to mind after Shennong is the story of how Da Hong Pao came to be.

[Isomnophilia]

Reading into the recent history of tea and it's disheartening... so i decided to go further back in history and its actually deep.

Liked and subscribed!

[Simplinalina]

Mu favourite teas are: Ya bao, dianhong and gaba alishan.