What Russian does not like tea, or at least is unfamiliar with this word. And with the word teapot, cup? You smile indulgently. Then here is the bowl and the letter Y - belly. For tea drinking and tea ceremony, even the initial letter in the ancient ABC is provided.
The grapheme belly forms like a bowl and personifies the basic way of obtaining and accumulating experience.
CHA in northern China means “young leaf”. This word began to be used to designate tea in the 4th-5th centuries - just when tea began to be made from these youngest leaves. Our ABC was born a little earlier.
All this was definitely not born yesterday. And to give tea priority to China and India unconditionally, there is no reason. Somewhere out there, in the depths of history, the cultures of our ancestors intersected, but nothing more.
For a long time in Russia they possessed the technology of making a delicious, healing drink from narrow-leaved fireweed, popularly called Ivan-tea. Hence the name Ivan-tea or simply - Tea came from.
Russian words about Russian tea have been preserved for a long time.
Dyachenko's dictionary is simply overflowing with words with CHA. This CHA is referred by the Russian language to childbirth and sorcery. Ivan tea is an assistant in men's problems and in many others. He is truly a healing and ritual drink.
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CHAYATI - expect, hope. So much for the "Chinese CHA".
As we say: "Tea see you," I mean, I hope to see you. Popular aspirations - popular hopes. They hoped for their miracle drink.
As for other peoples (Indians, Chinese), they simply adopted the name of the drink from us for their botany, and our translators and history editors agreed with this, if only they themselves did not create it.
We were forced to forget about it, but it is Russia-Russia that is the Motherland of tea!
Some of our know-how was attributed to Rome, and something even to China. Crack history without pity. And I'm not kidding here.
The history of Ivan-tea is mentioned in the chronicles of the 12th century.
In the then export list, our tea was listed under the name "Koporsky tea" after the name of the village founded by Alexander Nevsky. But the culture of tea production has a more ancient history. Export deliveries of Russian tea were ahead of the then Russian "brand" - hemp, wax and furs. Essentially, it is like exporting oil and gas today. And this is about tea from Russia?
The fortress in Koporye was founded in 1237. It was first mentioned in the Novgorod chronicles in 1240, when the German knights of the Livonian Order built a wooden fortress in the Koporsky churchyard.
In 1241 Alexander Nevsky recaptured the fortress from the German knights. During the assault, the famous hero Gavrila Aleksich died. The Sofia First Chronicle narrates:
Koporye fortress is considered to be the second most important, after Ladoga, a stone fortress in the northwest.
Later in the 19th century, the Ivan-tea plant came to second place in our export. England and Denmark bought thousands of poods of Ivan tea. And to Prussia and France, he went to smuggle. An article about him was even included in the Great British Encyclopedia. But England owned huge colonies, including India, where ordinary tea was grown. But the English Puritans, who had the opportunity to compare and choose the best varieties in the world, preferred Ivan tea.
In Russia they loved tea no less…. He was an integral part of the life of our ancestors.
Everyone understands to dine, but despair, despair? The form of constructing words is the same, but the meaning is, as it were, the opposite. But this was not always the case. To dine this afternoon, when, according to the Russian tradition, the afternoon nap is over, the old word despair had the same meaning. Remember the saying: “I didn’t drink tea, whence the strength. I drank tea - I was completely weak”,“Drink tea - live long”. Post-day rest was also practiced.
Kustodiev B. M. "Moscow tavern".
Today in Russia this is unlikely to be found, although even in Soviet times there were tea houses: collective farm, soldier …
The culture of tea drinking in Russia developed independently and in parallel with the tea culture of Asia, while having its own national tea ceremonies. Ceremonies were made in Europe as well.
Artists were attracted by the beautiful ceremony, but nothing about Russian tea. Why?
How they lost Russian tea
Great Britain, which owned huge tea plantations in India, bought tens of thousands of poods of Koporye tea annually, preferring Russian tea to Indian tea!
So why has such a profitable production of Koporsk tea stopped in Russia? The fact is that at the end of the 19th century, its popularity turned out to be so great that it began to undermine the financial power of the East India Tea Campaign, which traded Indian tea! The campaign fanned a scandal, allegedly Russians grind tea with white clay, and it is supposedly harmful to health. So the owners of the East Indian campaign decided to remove from the English market the most powerful competitor - Russian tea!
The company achieved its goal, the purchase of Russian tea was reduced, and after the revolution in Russia in 1917, the purchase of tea in Russia stopped completely! The Koporye Russian tea production center went bankrupt …
After the collapse of the Russian Empire, the Russian tea business was completely forgotten.
In the southern regions of China, English merchants exported a sheet called "Ti" from the Malay dialect of southern China - TE. From then on this name has gone around the world. But in the northern regions of China, the historical Russian word "tea" is known as čhā - "CHA".
Chinese tea came to Russia only in the 16th century as a gift to Ivan the Terrible. Well, compare the dates of the centuries.
Now about the strategic merits of Russian Ivan-tea
The story begins with a Slavic legend. For the sins of people, the gods spread diseases. The pestilence began. Only one goddess, the Bathing Lady, responded to the prayers of the Slavs. Having sailed across the sky at night on a silver boat, she threw seeds of a medicinal plant on the ground and in the morning, Ivan-tea bloomed in this place …
In the peasant families in the morning a huge samovar with this drink was brewed on the table. Everyone could go up to the samovar during the day, pour himself a mug, thereby not only quenching his thirst, but also recovering strength. Tea allowed the peasants to endure the heat more easily and to work from morning to evening without food. That is why a strange expression for the modern ear has been preserved: "Have some tea."
At the beginning of the 20th century, the Russian scientist, expert in Tibetan medicine Petr Badmaev, knowing the healing properties of Ivan-tea, opened an elite private clinic, a health center, in modern terms, for VIPs, where on the basis of this plant and other herbs he prepared decoctions and tinctures for treatment ailments and general improvement of the body. His clients included the royal family, the same Grigory Rasputin, and even crowned heads from Europe. Badmaev himself claimed that his tinctures from Ivan tea would give him the opportunity to live up to 200 years. The popularity of Koporye tea started to recover again in Europe.
In order to finally eliminate Koporye tea in Europe, the British decided to completely destroy the Russian tea industry. This time they did not launch an anti-advertising campaign, but simply paid V. I. Lenin. Badmaev, who at that time was 109 years old, was declared politically unreliable and thrown into prison, the employees of his laboratory were shot without trial, the recipes were destroyed, and the production of Koporye tea almost completely stopped. Some time later, Pyotr Badmaev was released, but the cell and torture undermined his health. Petr Badmaev died soon after.
The Bolsheviks came to their senses. Realizing that strong and healthy citizens are needed to preserve the state, especially in the Red Army. The tea factory in Koporye was restored, and under it, by order of L. P. Beria (!) Before the war, a laboratory was opened, whose task was to develop drinks for the Red Army based on Ivan-tea.
In 1941, the German army advanced on all fronts. The most fierce battles were fought in the northern direction, the Nazis rushed to Leningrad. On September 1, the offensive of German tanks on Leningrad was halted by a strange order from the commander of the Sever group, Field Marshal von Leeb, to enter Koporye and destroy an object codenamed “River of Life”. The order for the destruction came from Hitler's headquarters.
This facility was an experimental laboratory that produced drinks according to an old Russian recipe based on Ivan-tea. German tanks literally demolished Koporye, the tracks of tanks destroyed the fields of Ivan Chai. Superhumans shot everyone who was involved in the production of the drink.
But why did the German command postpone the assault on Leningrad and jeopardize the Barbarossa plan? For the sake of destroying Ivan-tea's laboratory and grounds? And the meaning of the strange order was in the unique properties that Ivan-tea possesses, since in terms of its usefulness it was ahead of all forms of food. In biochemical laboratories on the basis of a tea factory, work was carried out to create a unique drink that was supposed to increase the endurance of the soldiers of the Red Army.
So, in Russia, both the recipes of Peter Badmaev and the recipes of the laboratory at the Koporsky plant were completely lost. An indirect evidence of this is the fact that the high-ranking leaders of the USSR, who were very concerned about their health, gave instructions to their Kremlin chefs to bottle the rosehip drink in cognac bottles. After drinking a glass from such a bottle at the reception, they grunted in satisfaction and poured another. The invitees thought: "Our old men are in good health!" If these leaders knew about Koporsky tea and its properties, they would almost certainly replace their rosehip drink with it.
There are many plants from which tea can be prepared, the point here is the method of preparation, which is based on fermentation (fermentation), and the properties of each of the teas are determined by the plant from which it is prepared.
Ivan tea in its usefulness can only be compared with honey.
Ivan tea gives high quality pollen, royal jelly, and propolis. And from the stems, a strong fiber is obtained. And it is not without reason that they call it “down-padded” fireweed: in some villages, mattresses and pillows are still stuffed with it.
All parts of the plant are edible. Sweet rhizomes can be eaten raw and then dried into flour. The first shoots go for excellent salads that taste like asparagus, but only more tender and savory. And the leaves are the famous, unique and fragrant Ivan tea, which does not contain caffeine, alkaloids and puric acids - the first pollutants in the body.
Russian people used Ivan-Chai every day as a traditional drink and have always been distinguished by strength, health, endurance, and wisdom. Its regular use has promoted longevity.
This is not an advertisement, these are historical facts. If Beria himself, who was involved in solving strategic issues, also solved the issues of a drink from Ivan-tea, this, of course, was a strategic task, and not just the creation of a fashionable Pepsi-kvass.
Ivan tea infusion retains its healing and aromatic properties for three whole days. Whereas the fathers of ordinary tea - the Chinese believe that their tea after brewing in 20 minutes turns into "rattlesnake venom". Since in ordinary tea after brewing, after a while, in addition to caffeine, such polyphenolic substances begin to be extracted, which block the synthesis of many vitamins and useful enzymes in the body. That is why it is not recommended to brew black tea twice. It is black tea that is widespread in China for domestic consumption.
But it turns out that this lack of natural tea can be corrected by adding Ivan-tea to each brew at least a third of the total amount of the mixture.
Ordinary teas are dried at temperatures from 65 degrees to 85 degrees, and Ivan tea was obtained as a result of soft drying up to 65 degrees with the maximum preservation of beneficial trace elements and vitamins.
There is a lot of information on the useful properties of Ivan-Chai on the Web.
Interestingly, the Ivan tea brew does not stain the tooth enamel, and in general, a successfully made Ivan tea is much tastier than Indian or Ceylon tea. By its properties, the Ivan-tea drink occupies, as it were, an intermediate position between black and green in terms of strength and healing properties. And if you add flowers, dried berries and fruits to this tea, then there will be no price!
The use of Ivan-Tea will be especially useful for women during pregnancy and lactation. Ivan-Chai will help even babies with teething.
The healing properties of Ivan-Tea are worth trusting. Many generations of our ancestors "tested" this drink on themselves.
In short, a real elixir and panacea. Well done were our ancestors, and unscrupulous people strive to write down the Slavs as savages along with a primitive history. Not without reason to see England and Hitler's bad memory destroyed our Ivan tea with all their might.
And what is the technology of making Ivan tea?
It should be noted right away that making it independently requires skill and experience. It's like baking bread or cutting glass. Everything seems to be clear, but it turns out like a magician in a song by Pugacheva.
If you try to just dry it and brew it, you get nonsense hay with hay.
It is necessary to ensure all processes in the required mode. No wonder this was an export item and a headache for Russia's competitors.
And all this is a gift of native nature, an environmentally friendly fortified product. The ancestors loved nature, and Nature loved them.
After the publication, I received a clarifying comment: "A very important detail, Ivan tea does not absorb harmful substances from the soil and the environment."