History of Japanese Green Tea

Originally, Japanese green tea came from China. It was originally grown there sometime around the ninth century. It came to Japan by Japanese Buddhist monks who studied in China. They learned about Chinese society and discovered green tea. They brought it back from China. Once in Japan, this tea was used as medicine in Buddhist templates. It was used for monks and aristocrats. Eventually, the Samurai started to drink the tea.

A few centuries later, green tea seeds were brought from China into Japan. Until then it was regularly imported. When it was imported it was very expensive, thus the reason it was only used by the wealthy. Once the seeds entered Japan, people began to cultivate and grow them. Once the populace started drinking the tea regularly, the health benefits of the tea became more widely known. In Japan it was used to maintain health and to maintain weight loss.

In China, the tea was grown in the shade, then streamed, ground, and dried into a powder. By the 15th century, green tea was commonly consumed in Japan by the Japanese people. Today, Japanese Tea is the secondly largest tea exporter in the world.

Green tea is one of the most well known teas in the world. It's one of the most consumed and comes largely from China and Japan. Recently the tea has become much more popular in the West because of health benefits and because of their ability to aid the drinker in losing weight. Essentia

ly, green tea is one of the most healthy beverages you can drink.

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