This document discusses the history and culture of tea around the world, including its origins in China, traditions in Japan like the tea ceremony, how it spread along the Ancient Tea Horse Road, and customs in countries like Russia, India, and England. It also mentions Jane Austen's fondness for tea and includes some quotes from her novels about tea drinking.
17. Quotes from Jane Austen Novels
""Perhaps you would like some tea, as soon as it can be got."
They both declared they should prefer it to anything." – Mrs. Price to Fanny
and William in Mansfield Park, chapter 38.
Before tea it was rather a dull affair; but then the before tea did not last
long, for there was only one dance, danced by four couple. Think of four
couple, surrounded by about an hundred people, dancing in the Upper
Rooms at Bath. – Jane Austen, May 12, 1801
"You must drink tea with us tonight." --"Sense & Sensibility"
“Would you care for weak or strong tea?”
18. Several tea drinking
practices considered
new-age are in fact
the original ways of
taking tea.
Health benefits of
Tea being
rediscovered
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