Questions 31-40
Complete the notes below.
Write ONE WORD ONLY for each answer.
History of tea — presentation notes
Early Chinese tea drinking
• Tea leaves originally gathered from wild bushes in Yunnan and Sichuan.
• Traded by the early Tang dynasty (7th century); use spread into Japan.
• In 1122 the Song emperor ordered every unlicensed tea house in the capital to close.
Tea reaches Europe (17th century)
• Spread first to the Netherlands, then to Britain.
European colonisation and tea production
• Plantations set up in India, Sri Lanka and beyond.
The correct answer is rituals because Lu Yu's Classic of Tea set out the rituals for preparing the drink.
Associated Text:
Lu Yu wrote a famous book called the Classic of Tea, which set out the rituals for preparing the drink.
The correct answer is clubs because the speaker says polite, invitation-only tea gatherings were said to perform a similar function to clubs.
Associated Text:
Because of the polite, often invitation only character of these gatherings, some people said that these places performed a similar function to clubs.
The correct answer is literary because tea-house and tea-room discussions are said to have influenced social movements and literary developments.
Associated Text:
many social movements and literary developments had their origins in tea house and tea room discussions.
The correct answer is region because tea types such as Assam or Darjeeling were named after the region they came from, not the port.
Associated Text:
the names given to these different types, like Assam tea or Darjeeling tea, were often taken from the region they came from rather than the port they were shipped from.
The correct answer is labourers because the speaker says cultivation in Assam depended on indentured labourers tied to estates by contracts.
Associated Text:
So in Assam, most cultivation depended on labourers.
The correct answer is currency because tea bricks were exchanged in border markets, so tea acted as a form of currency.
Associated Text:
these tea bricks were then exchanged in markets along the borders of Mongolia and Russia. So in some Chinese provinces, tea was used as a form of currency.
The correct answer is silk because tea became nearly as important as silk production in international trade.
Associated Text:
it became nearly as important as silk production, which had been the other major Chinese export for centuries.
The correct answer is coffee because after independence, Americans turned away from tea and coffee became the preferred beverage.
Associated Text:
after independence in 1776, Americans turned away from tea, and instead a different drink became the preferred beverage. So the move towards consumption of coffee in the USA did not also take place in Britain.
The correct answer is shipping because cheaper and more efficient ships lowered tea prices, so improvements in shipping drove the price fall.
Associated Text:
new types of clipper ships and later steamships had been developed for shipping, which were cheaper and more efficient.
The correct answer is refreshment because the speaker says strong sweet tea became important as a quick refreshment during long factory shifts.
Associated Text:
the use of strong sweet tea as a quick refreshment became important.
