Tea: The Story of a Leaf - Episode 1 - The Spirit of Tea

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  • čas přidán 7. 03. 2018
  • A tea leaf falls into water and changes the taste of it. Tea was born from the encounter between water and fire, life and death. The fate of tea is the fate of the Chinese people.
    Follow Damian Harper, writer for Lonely Planet, as he takes you around the world to explore the history, origins and development of tea.
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Komentáře • 77

  • @paulphelps7809
    @paulphelps7809 Před rokem +12

    The drinking of tea is among the greatest of China's contribution to the world.
    I have been drinking tea daily throughout adult life and have experienced good health from it, especially
    a stable metabolism (my weight at age 85 never changed). It is necessary to acquire the taste of tea in
    the natural form without addition of cream or sugar, to avoid negating all the many natural benefits.

  • @vincentjieliu
    @vincentjieliu Před 6 lety +50

    Thank you for creating an English version with Damian Harper! I have always wished for this and now more people will know about tea culture:)

  • @kirkwhite8600
    @kirkwhite8600 Před 3 lety +27

    If only uncle Iroh could have narrated this.

  • @hypnocilicdreams
    @hypnocilicdreams Před 5 lety +12

    I love tea. It has fascinating, magical therapeutic health properties.

    • @isaiahprovance9994
      @isaiahprovance9994 Před 4 lety +1

      I know did you see the blang mans skin. holy smootha moly

    • @missanna208802
      @missanna208802 Před 4 lety +1

      We all think our tea comes from places like this but chances are it comes from places like those shown in "the dark side of tea"

    • @olsonbryce777
      @olsonbryce777 Před 3 lety

      @@xboxswitch9457 lmao

  • @martinvuyk5326
    @martinvuyk5326 Před 3 lety +4

    This is beautiful. Ancient, elaborate, and full of flavor; Chinese cultural history is like tea... or is it the other way around?

  • @mikkelnpetersen
    @mikkelnpetersen Před 4 lety +28

    "This tea is nothing but how leaf juice"
    "Uncle, that's what all tea is"
    "How could a member of my own family say something say something so horrible"

    • @lukemikolite1087
      @lukemikolite1087 Před 3 lety +1

      It is actually "this tea is nothing more than hot leaf juice" but otherwise this should definitely have been here so thank you.

    • @MugiwaraLion
      @MugiwaraLion Před 3 lety +1

      Uncle iron was a real one 😭 by far the best character from Avatar IMO

    • @JackPorter
      @JackPorter Před 3 měsíci +1

      @@lukemikolite1087 tired of drinking tea? that's like being tired of breathing!

  • @biglance
    @biglance Před 7 měsíci +1

    铁观音-Tie Guan Yin, from Fujian, nice opening tea! Peace from Fuzhou, Fujian, China.

  • @alicediscovertheworld
    @alicediscovertheworld Před 3 lety

    An amazing documentary ! I love it ! thank you ^^

  • @Kuppz5
    @Kuppz5 Před 6 lety +3

    Thanks so much for the upload of the series :)

    • @ChinaHour
      @ChinaHour  Před 5 lety

      Thank you for watching with us!

    • @globalagriculture9581
      @globalagriculture9581 Před 4 lety

      @@ChinaHour ☕Pure ceylon tea☕ Tea plucking ##
      Tea Land in srilanka
      czcams.com/video/nNmZ693X_Q4/video.html

  • @discovercha2784
    @discovercha2784 Před rokem

    Thanks for your contribution to this tea documentary in English.

  • @riskingmybiscuit4209
    @riskingmybiscuit4209 Před 3 lety +2

    Great documentary about tea 🍵.

  • @leafster1337
    @leafster1337 Před 2 lety +1

    the shaded tea from the wuyi mountains is similar to some japanese green teas which are too shaded, but kept green

  • @MsHburnett
    @MsHburnett Před 5 lety +3

    Twinnings teas were perfectly made in NZ by the Bell Tea Company
    UK stopped this 2 years ago - and now twinnings is undrinkable

  • @ericswain4177
    @ericswain4177 Před 11 měsíci

    😃Tea culture is very interesting, there is a wonderful Tea Shop in a town where I visit friends and I get Tea there whenever I go to visit.

  • @GamelanSinarSurya
    @GamelanSinarSurya Před 2 lety

    Inspiring, informative and aesthetically beautiful program. 谢谢.

  • @netrabantawa3439
    @netrabantawa3439 Před 11 měsíci

    Lovely 😍

  • @bestfinancialeducation9084

    My friend Master JinGang is the one who curated & created the long sprout tea pot ceremony!

  • @vutrungthanh2112
    @vutrungthanh2112 Před 3 lety

    What a great film

  • @PennyDreadful1
    @PennyDreadful1 Před 5 lety +2

    I like Bu Lang Sheng Puerh Tea. It's really mild and sweet and lingers on your tongue.
    It's got abit of a honeyed aftertaste.

  • @holdmybeer
    @holdmybeer Před 5 lety +3

    thanks for the [captions]. good documentary, coffee has an interesting story too. guy almost died of dehydration so his plant would survive.

    • @arthas640
      @arthas640 Před 5 lety

      4:19 the audio quality dropped fast for that little part. Like they suddenly started recording the voiceover with a cellphone instead of a microphone.

    • @globalagriculture9581
      @globalagriculture9581 Před 4 lety

      @@arthas640 ☕Pure ceylon tea☕ Tea plucking ##
      Tea Land in srilanka
      czcams.com/video/nNmZ693X_Q4/video.html

  • @lilearth7273
    @lilearth7273 Před 4 lety +9

    I rather listen to Chinese person talk about their medicine and the good benefits for it

  • @sharifhossain8772
    @sharifhossain8772 Před 4 lety

    THANK YOU IT IS LEARNING SUBJECT

  • @JoeJTSJoe
    @JoeJTSJoe Před 4 lety +2

    This is great! The more documentaries about tea, the better. But unfortunate editing. Whenever they showed footage, there were captions. These were often unrelated or cut-off, and should have been omitted to prevent distraction. :/

  • @hyliantrue
    @hyliantrue Před 4 lety +4

    Take a shot every time they say “Tea”

  • @oldsport3364
    @oldsport3364 Před 3 lety

    Iroh: *at last, i have found my people*

  • @kanora582
    @kanora582 Před 5 lety +14

    There should be a law that all tea must be made using traditional methods.
    No machines are allowed and only tools made from the clay, wood or stones are allowed.
    This assures that cultural heritage is maintained and quality flavours and human rhythms are imbued in the finished product.
    Feel the rhythm of ancient masters in every cup

    • @arthas640
      @arthas640 Před 5 lety +6

      That would massively increase the costs of tea for everyone, even if it would improve the quality. If you want tea like that you can just find it online and order some, people just dont often do that because it's so much more expensive.

    • @theweatherballoon5376
      @theweatherballoon5376 Před 4 lety +1

      Traditional methods come from a time when tea was only drunk by the higher classes in Asia, monks and those collecting and making the tea. Now it's drunk by everybody, everywhere. It's a nice idea but not at all feasible.

    • @missourimongoose8858
      @missourimongoose8858 Před 2 lety +1

      The French tried to do that with wine and then lost to California in a blind taste test lol

  • @user-os4gm4gk7s
    @user-os4gm4gk7s Před 4 lety +1

    好茶

  • @ahmedalhouti4207
    @ahmedalhouti4207 Před 2 lety

    Yea Ana. I mean Teavana is the best tea .

  • @youtubehatesus2651
    @youtubehatesus2651 Před 2 lety

    I like coffee

  • @ferdieng2983
    @ferdieng2983 Před 2 lety

    Blang people are austroasiatic tribe or mon-khmer.closely related to the palaung or wa tribe.

  • @philfluther2713
    @philfluther2713 Před 2 lety

    "Atishoo!".

  • @missanna208802
    @missanna208802 Před 4 lety

    Just watched the dark side of tea.

  • @GiantFromTartaria
    @GiantFromTartaria Před 4 lety +3

    14:00 she just took off the gaiwan's top and drank directly from it lol

    • @Weeping-Angel
      @Weeping-Angel Před 2 lety

      There’s nothing wrong with that. Freestyle 👍

    • @helloitscasey
      @helloitscasey Před 2 lety +1

      that’s a traditional practice

  • @SATAN-qd6hk
    @SATAN-qd6hk Před 5 lety +1

    Улун

  • @wickedandwell
    @wickedandwell Před rokem +3

    This series is beautiful, thank you for sharing!
    I do find it entertaining she says it's exhausting picking leaves, because yes it is hard work, but the tea collectors in China are likely in such a peaceful meditative state with the plants they likely don't feel like work. It really reflects the difference between the Eastern and Western mentality of self.

  • @docdoc4129
    @docdoc4129 Před rokem

    🕎 pos adverts (6-10) totally ruin this piece. Thanks for upload ntl 🙏

  • @growingmelancholy8374
    @growingmelancholy8374 Před 4 lety

    Twinings? hahaha

  • @arthas640
    @arthas640 Před 5 lety +5

    5:45 sounds like the ultimate hipster brag: "your tea can't even compare to mine, my people were _literally_ born from tea plants!"

    • @globalagriculture9581
      @globalagriculture9581 Před 4 lety

      ☕Pure ceylon tea☕ Tea plucking ##
      Tea Land in srilanka
      czcams.com/video/nNmZ693X_Q4/video.html

  • @roksraka9241
    @roksraka9241 Před 5 lety +3

    great film... but I would've preferred subtitles without the bad voice acting :)

    • @ExNihiloComesNothing
      @ExNihiloComesNothing Před 5 lety +1

      If you find one with subtitles, let me know. The Chinese one doesn't.

  • @stephanievaughan837
    @stephanievaughan837 Před 3 lety

    Tt

  • @The_Erik_Saga
    @The_Erik_Saga Před 11 měsíci

    Tea is good. Tea spirits do not exist. Thanks!

  • @morganolfursson2560
    @morganolfursson2560 Před 5 lety

    why the fuck o they need to kill an innocent ox . This is so sad .

  • @StopFear
    @StopFear Před 5 lety +3

    Pretentious documentary for cultural tourists.

    • @arthas640
      @arthas640 Před 5 lety +2

      Some people like to read too much into their food. It's like how some wine critics will rant and rave about how amazing high priced wine is, even if you put a low quality wine in a high quality wine's bottle and then serve it to them.

    • @globalagriculture9581
      @globalagriculture9581 Před 4 lety

      @@arthas640 ☕Pure ceylon tea☕ Tea plucking ##
      Tea Land in srilanka
      czcams.com/video/nNmZ693X_Q4/video.html

  • @morganolfursson2560
    @morganolfursson2560 Před 5 lety +1

    Sacriufy an animal for that BS . Yeah great message to the next generations .