Tracing the history of ‘Chai’, and Indian and Chinese claims on the culture of drinking tea

Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things ~ Chaim Pot.

So, where did the culture of drinking tea start?

While India is now well-known for the high-quality tea it produces, and the innumerable cups of chai that Indians drink, the habit of drinking tea as a regular beverage did not originate here. Historically, Indian addiction to chai is a more recent phenomenon when the British introduced the habit of drinking endless cups of tea, simply for trade benefits. It is generally believed that tea drinking originated in China and is said to have been in regular use there, originally as a medicine and later as a beverage.

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