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What’s So Special About Green Tea?

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

Japanese green tea is one of the most healthful beverages you crapper make. It’s hard to believe the western part of the concern is exclusive today realising the upbeat benefits of naif tea.

Japanese naif repast has been grown in Japan for centuries, and its production has been civilised and reinforced continuously. You might be wondering how Japanese naif repast came to be grown in Japan.

It all began with a Japanese Buddhist monk known as Eisai, who found out about naif repast while studying Buddhism Buddhism in China. He was so impressed that he brought whatever repast seeds back to Japan and planted them in Kyushu in 1191. He also penned two books on the upbeat benefits of naif tea, and news soon spread.

Green repast gained popularity with the Japanese aristocracy who held repast tournaments. Tea drinkers would distribution countless cups of repast from all over Japan, and large bets would be placed to see who could guess which province the repast came from.

….And then came along the Japanese repast ceremony-

It was around the 16th century that the repast master Sen no Rikyu developed the steps of the traditional repast ceremony, which is still widely practised today all over Japan. Sen no Rikyu emphasised the spirituality and naivety of repast drinking.