[tied] Re: Ca_i, tea

According to legends, tea was drunk in CHina and India more than 4000
years ago?! However the first reference in writing to tea-drinking
dates from eight century AD onwards. Tea was known to Nipon-go
(Japanese) as early as 6th century but was only widely used as
beverage after 11th century, when Zen Buddhist priest started to
encourage them...due to medicianl reason and drinking it is thought
to be morally uplifting.

The Dutch introduced it to europe and america early 17th century and
since then it became very commercial...thx to dutch ;-))

Tea bags began to originate in New York on 1904 when ice tea was
introduced at World's Fair in St. Louis (1904).

My guess is tea came to english thru dutch, whereby dutch received it
either from malay (malaysia), and malay would have either got it from
chinese or india, as both traded heavily in malaysia and sorrounding
peninsular.

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VeeJay

--- In cybalist@..., cas111jd@... wrote:
> --- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> > You mean "Austric", not "Austronesian". The Austric hypothesis
> proposes that several language families of SE Asia are genetically
> related. They include Austronesian, Tai-Kadai, Hmong-Mien, and
> Austroasiatic (= Munda + Nicobarese + Mon-Khmer). The Mundas are
not
> Austronesians, though there may be a distant relationship between
the
> two families.
> >
> > Piotr
> >
> >
> Actually, I already caught myself and changed my post from
> Austronesian to Austroasiatic. As I understand it, Munda is (or
was)
> counted in the Austroasiatic family.
>
> Now that I think about it a
> little more, though, tea is normally grown on hillsides and
uplands.
> This may have been in Tai-Kadai regions. The Austroasiatics seem to
> have been more lowland peoples, though there were apparently some
Mon
> states in northern Thailand before the Thais arrived.
>
> cas