{"id":33607,"date":"2022-03-04T18:37:16","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T18:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/?p=33607"},"modified":"2022-03-04T18:37:16","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T18:37:16","slug":"he-convinced-people-to-drink-tea-instead-of-eating-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2022\/03\/04\/he-convinced-people-to-drink-tea-instead-of-eating-it\/","title":{"rendered":"He convinced people to drink tea instead of eating it"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Sometime in his adolescence, in\u00a0the 700s, Lu Yu, an aspiring writer and professional clown, had his first taste of tea soup. This probably occurred not far from Lu\u2019s childhood home: a Buddhist monastery that overlooked a scenic lake in Central China. But Lu was unimpressed; he called the soup \u201cditch water.\u201d<\/p>

What bothered Lu was not the tea, but all the other ingredients. The offending brew contained scallions, ginger, jujube dates, citrus peels, Dogwood berries, and mint, all of which cooks \u201cthreshed\u201d together to make a smooth paste. The result was a chunky soup, or even a sauce.<\/p>

Lu Yu, in fact, adored tea\u2014he\u2019d go on to become the \u201ctea god\u201d and the world\u2019s greatest tea influencer. But the tea he loved\u2014brewed only from powdered tea leaves, without any other flavoring\u2014was, in the grand sweep of human history, a recent invention. People in Asia, where tea trees are native, ate tea leaves for centuries, perhaps even millennia, before ever thinking to drink it. And it is Lu Yu who is chiefly responsible for making tea drinking the norm for most people around the world.<\/p>via Atlas Obscura<\/a> <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Sometime in his adolescence, in\u00a0the 700s, Lu Yu, an aspiring writer and professional clown, had his first taste of tea soup. This probably occurred not far from Lu\u2019s childhood home: a Buddhist monastery that overlooked a scenic lake in Central China. But Lu was unimpressed; he called the soup \u201cditch water.\u201d What bothered Lu was … <\/p>\n

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