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【正文】 B. American iced tea culture................................................................................. 10 IV. Similarities, Differences and Fusion between Chinese and Western Tea Culture 11 A. Similarities ............................................................................................ 11 B. Differences ....................................................................................................... 12 C. The Fusion of China and Western Tea Culture................................................. 12 V. Conclusion............................................................................................................... 13 Bibliography................................................................................................................. 14 1 I. Introduction Tea was foremost grown in China and then spread to abroad, and has always been popular all over the world as a traditional beverage. Tea has never lost its popularity especially in recent years, even the market share of modern drinks is great increasing .Today, people have gradually realized the importance of anic foods and drinks, and tea is being considered the natural and healthy drinks which are promoted by people all over the world. Tea culture has long been talked and discussed by people from home and abroad as a popular topic. China and the western countries like UK and US are major tea drinking nations. With the evolution of tea drinking history, tea has severally developed a unique culture in these nations. As a popular topic, tea culture has been discussed by the academia of different countries. But the contrast and parison between these two tea cultures has been focused on the differences rather than the similarities and fusion. The parison of Chinese and Western tea culture is therefore an important and fascinating topic in international munication. In this paper, we will first review some important aspects of tea culture in these countries, and in the conclusion, we will focus on both the differences, the similarities and interaction of Chinese and Western tea culture. “When we get up in the morning, the first things we should get ready are firewood, rice, edible oil, salt, soy, vinegar and tea,” this is said by an old Chinese saying. It tell people tea is a necessity of life in China. According to the recorded history, China found and started to use tea dating back to almost 3000 years ago. Tea, not merely as a drink, has been popularized and developed in China all the time. Moreover, it has spread to many foreign countries. As we all know, Chinese silk made an outstanding contribution to the world’s material and spiritual civilization, and Chinese tea so did this. Tea has not been known by Europeans until the 16th century and has not been introduced to Britain by the Dutch until the mid 17th century, even it is early discovery in Asia. (The British Tea Company 11)Later from this, tea has been an important drink in western countries for several centuries, and is drunk all day in most Western households. Throughout many centuries that the western people have been drinking tea, it has had a great impact on 2 the nation’s culture and lifestyle patterns through the ages. Tea has seepaged into the culture of western countries. II. China Tea Culture A. The origin of tea China grow, produce and drink tea at the first time, and be saw as the original tea growingarea. The discovery and the use of tea in China can be traced back to 3000 years ago. There is a legendary story runs, “in order to prevent people from eating the poisonous plants, shennong tasted hundreds of wild plants to see which were poisonous and which were edible.” One day he got poisoned when gathering and tasting herbs. Fortunately, he found a plant, tea, which helped him to get rid of the toxin and finally he survived. People continually retold this story from generation to generation, paying great respect to their ancestor who pioneered agriculture and Chinese medicine. (Theodore, Chan amp。s natural philosophy height. 11 IV. Similarities, Differences and Fusion between Chinese and Western Tea Culture A. Similarities Time goes by as the light, with the evolution of tea drinking history, we can see that although the difference of tea drinking history exist in both china and the west, but the tea culture also present some similarities: and western people are both the first to realize and use the therapeutic value of tea, started drinking, and gradually developed tea into a mon drink. Tea may help promote digestion with the aromatics. We therefore can say tea has great effect on many of the ethnic minorities in China who live mainly on meat . A popular old saying says, Rather go without salt for three days than without tea for a single day. Tea with various vitamins in it can help smokers discharge nicotine out o f the body. Moreover, strong tea may prove to be a sobering pickmeup when people are over drinked. 2. Tea has relationship with many aspects of social life. Generally speaking, the use of something and the formation of a custom started from the mon people, while a group of scholars surprisingly take tea as a drink at first. Zhu GeLiang, prime minister of the state of Shu during the three kingdoms period (), is known to almost every household. His wisdom and civil and military abilities are still respected by later generations. Tradition says that Zhu GeLiang popularized tea cultivation in Yunnan province and other places. The great literature works about tea is also fruitful. In Britain, Victorian, the queen of Britain specially love tea drinking and make tea popular all around country in that time. 3. People are both in China and western countries take tea as an enjoyment and relax. 12 4. In m