The Little Tea Book - Couverture souple

Gray, Arthur

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3956101189 ISBN 13 : 9783956101182

Editeur : Vero Verlag GmbH & Co.KG, 2014

Synopsis

Tea enjoys great popularity for many hundreds of years. The beginnings of strong tea culture can be found in China, where for the first time plant leaves have been brewed to the aromatic beverage.By sea the tea came very soon to Europe, where he first had to prove himself as a kind of drug before becoming famous particularly in the English aristocracy. This book from 1903 describes both the history of tea as well as typical regional cooking methods and is also one of its cultural meanings.

A propos du livre

From the Back Cover

Matrons who toss the cup, and see The grounds of Fate in grounds of tea. —Churchill

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The Origin of Tea

Darma, third son of Koyuwo, King of India, a religious high priest from Siaka (the author of that Eastern paganism about a thousand years before the Christian era), coming to China, to teach the way of happiness, lived a most austere life, passing his days in continual mortification, and retiring by night to solitudes, in which he fed only upon the leaves of trees and other vegetable productions. After several years passed in this manner, in fasting and watching, it happened that, contrary to his vows, the pious Darma fell asleep! When he awoke, he was so much enraged at himself, that, to prevent the offence to his vows for the future, he got rid of his eyelids and placed them on the ground. On the following day, returning to his accustomed devotions, he beheld, with amazement, springing up from his eyelids, two small shrubs of an unusual appearance, such as he had never before seen, and of whose qualities he was, of course, entirely ignorant. The saint, however, not being wholly devoid of curiosity—or, perhaps, being unusually hungry—was prompted to eat of the leaves, and immediately felt within him a wonderful elevation of mind, and a vehement desire of divine contemplation, with which he acquainted his disciples, who were eager to follow the example of their instructor, and they readily received into common use the fragrant plant which has been the theme of so many poetical and literary pens in succeeding ages.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Vero Verlag GmbH & Co.KG
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3956101189
• ISBN 13: 9783956101182
• Reliure: Paperback
• Nombre de pages: 72
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible