Tegal people have their own tea

Tegal Tea (better known as the tea poci; also Slawi tea) is the typical tea Tegal, Indonesia. This special tea aroma and taste quite sepet. This meal is served drinks with sugar and more fitting stone drunk while still warm, slightly hot.

Culture poci tea or moci has become a tradition for Tegal, is due to the growth of the tea factories in Tegal in 1930-an who was evoke tradition. Tea into incentive since the colonial era up to now and has become the local culture.

Kabupaten Tegal indeed have a lot of tea plantations and industries, both large and small, among others, PT. Gunung Slamet whose products include Cap Poci Tea, Tea Bottle Cap, Cap Berko Tea, Tea "Trumpet", Tea "Brand Shoes", Tea "Sosro" and also the supplier of raw materials for the PT. Sinar Sosro with products Sosro Bottle Tea, Fruit Tea, and S-tee and Tebs. Also PT. Naga pole that produces tea and Tang Two Tjatoet Tea, Tea Company "Two Birds" producing Tong Tji.

To meet the demand supply of the tea industry in Tegal, some raw materials shipped from the West is the largest tea production centers in Indonesia. Supply of leaf tea plantation West Java is then processed in factories Tegal into several types of tea. In addition to fragrant jasmine tea (jasmine tea), also produced the type of green tea and black tea.

Tegal tea or often called Slawi tea, became special when served with the hot water in poci gerabah, Poci Tea is served with rock sugar. That makes it become like that because, when served with tea in hot water, which gerabah-permeable pore that react with the tea and cause the characteristic odor. Some like tea, if presented in poci ceramic or porcelain. According to them, in this poci, steaming hot tea detained in ceramic wall so hard that any type of tehnya, the smell will not be damaged.

Gerabah is very unique in its use. If you buy gerabah (poci) for use at home, that do not directly fill it with hot water and tea and then you drink. Gerabah this should be filled with hot water and tea as "rendaman" for 7 days. Change the water and tea every day. This is meant to smell the original clay of the gerabah can be removed with a tea fragrance, so fresh when used heavily to drink.

Recognize closer of "tea"

For me, tea is introduced by the rural communities of practice is always to provide the family on the table, each event, the morning / afternoon / night, or at each visit. I do not know the factors, the community where I live, is like drinking tea. Is this related to the geographic or may be a culture?

Following the history, Chinese have been drinking tea for 5,000 years. Origin in the first tea is still a legend. The most famous legend is the story of the Emperor Shen Nung (pronounced 'Shay-Nung'). By the discovery of tea has not placed exactly in history, namely in the year 2737 BC.During thousands of years, the Chinese drink tea for health and enjoyment. No one knows what causes they are interested in green and shiny leaves of Camellia sinensis, but the popular legends can give knowledge to us.

Legends of India with the discovery of tea monk Budhidharma. The cowl is very tired after the period of exile for 7 years. In the pains he chew some leaves that grow nearby, and with a refreshing back-off. India currently the largest tea producer in the world, but there is no historical record of tea in India before the ninth century teens. Experiment of Budhidharma chewing tea did not spread to the general public at the time.

Tea is not native of Japan, the mythology is not able to give an explanation of tea in Japan. Reality is less diverse: in the beginning of the ninth century, a monk from Japan who roam from home, called Dengyo Daishi bring tea seeds of plants from China.

According to the legend, Shen Nong examine the effect of healing perdu hundreds of plants that grow wild. Finally, he wrote that knowledge he has collected into a book "Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing". In the book indicated that the Shen Nong is a herbal tea and in accordance with the note in the history, initially only be drunk as tea by the Chinese herbal. At the beginning of Zhou Dynasty (1046-771 BC) began to enter the palace to the kingdom and establish a ritual drink tea.

Tang Dynasty is not only a triumph of the era of ancient China in the fields of economy, science, culture and social, but it is also the peak of China's tea culture. Oblige the emperor to the prefecture / autonomous authorities that the tea plantations have to provide a "tribute tea". Dedication / tribute must be submitted before the Cing Bing / Qing Ming (5 April), so the tea during the Cing Bing can be consumed by the family kingdom.

Inspired by the idea of harmony Khonghucu, Buddhis principle about the teachings , Taoism sincere about the relationship between man and the universe, Lu Yu found that drinking tea is a method of increasing spirituality. Cultural regeneration occurs during the last Qing dynasty (read: China, 1644-1922) through the pull-tearoom. The tradition of the bureaucrats, to entertain foreign guests with the tea, finally has an impact that drinking tea has spread throughout the world.

In the early seventh century traders from the bowels of the nation Dutch and Portuguese first introduced tea to Europe. Portuguese merchants to send ships to the ports of China, Macau, while Dutch traders took him from Indonesia to Europe

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