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The exact date of tea's cultivation
is not clear, but historian researchers indicate that tea's bush was known about
three thousand years before Jesus’ birth in China, so the background of tea's
cultivation, production and consumption is about five thousand ago in this
country. Some people believe that the exact origin of tea is in the southern
region of China; some others believe that the exact region is India, the region
which is known today as the exact region of rough tea is restricted from north
to Young Tese Kiang valley, from south to India, Siam and Bireme, from west to
Greece and from east to Assam. At first tribes of china's southerly eastern,
would pluck the slim of tea's leaf and roll it between two palms, then they
would dry it in front of sun light or fire's heat, and then make these leaves
and consume it .
From that time to the end of the
eighteenth century, tea's consumption was only used as a drug and were used only
for medical purposes such as eliminating digestion, difficulties in food
digestion, kidneys illness, etc.
Iranians were familiar with this
plant and its name by the end of seventh century. The product of "Ghazane's
Falahat nameh" was also mentioned in his work .
The first report of tea's drinking in Iran was declared by Germany’s ambassador
at Safi King Court (Abas king grandchild). He wrote in his diary “I was served
in Iran with tea like in India.” The comparisons of this date and the date of
tea drinking currently in England indicate that tea drinking began earlier in
Iran than in England .
Tea imported to Iran for a long time
was from China and India. China’s tea via Russia and India tea via South
imported to Iran. Before Kashefo Alsaltane, the founder of tea cultivation,
there were some efforts to cultivate tea in Iran but all of them lead to
failure. It began in Iran in 1280 Hejri after curious Suborns of a person, whose
name was Mohammad Mirza (his title was Kashef Alsaltane) for the first time some
Of Lahijan native vicinity attempted to cultivate tea with Kashefo Alsaltane's
support. Bit by bit, tea's cultivation became usual in Gilan, then in Mazandaran
and cultivators were showing more tendencies to plant this product. |
