Japanese Drinking Tea Essay

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Draw a comparison between Japan’s drinking tea habit and New Zealand’s drinking tea habit
・ Japan
THE JAPAN’S HISTORY OF TEA In the 15th century, tea became such a revered beverage that a whole culture developed around it, culminating in the tea ceremony. The drinking of tea became highly structured recreation centered on such aesthetic and philosophical concepts as wabi (austere beauty) and sabi (tranquility). Eventually the tea ceremony became synonymous with cultural refinement, and court nobles and the wealthy would frequently participate in the ritual. It was only much later that the custom of tea drinking spread to the average person and tea became an indispensable daily beverage. The entrenched in everyday life, it has become an indispensable to drink tea in the life and culture of the Japanese. In addition, the deep …show more content…

Most of Japanese people drink tea by habit. We generally drink Green tea, Barley tea, Oolong tea and other tea. Recently some people drink herb tea, flavor tea, having said that the Green tea is the mainstream of the Japanese drinking tea culture.

WHEN - When do you drink tea? In Japan, most usually drink tea when we were thirsty, during the meal, after the meal, snack time. We don’t have especially time for drinking tea, like English people do.(The morning tea and after noon tea.)

WHO – Which age bracket prefer to drink tea? / When did you drink your first tea? In recent years, diversification and changes in lifestyle, due to differences in the lifetime of the family between the opportunity to drink tea with a teapot is reduced mainly in middle-aged and young layer have.
We start drinking tea from very young age. We have familiarity with drinking Barley tea that as decaffeinated tea when we were child even though we have green tea, black tea and oolong

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