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

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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[@paulphelps7809]

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]

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:)

[@MultiFinlayson]

Glad you liked it!

[@kirkwhite8600]

If only uncle Iroh could have narrated this.

[@ferggerman]

I was literally singing leaves from the vine before I even opened to the comments

[@Andromedacelestia21]

Your comment made my day lol

[@Kaspersghost476]

You get me

[@hypnocilicdreams]

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

[@Boldsnow64]

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

[@missanna208802]

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]

@@xboxswitch9457 lmao

[@mikkelnpetersen]

"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]

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

[@MugiwaraLion]

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

[@JackPorter]

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

[@biglance]

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

[@MADSCIENTISTGONESANE6166]

Cool vid - tea drinker here, also coffee consumer

[@discovercha2784]

Thanks for your contribution to this tea documentary in English.

[@ericswain4177]

😃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.

[@riskingmybiscuit4209]

Great documentary about tea 🍵.

[@Kuppz5]

Thanks so much for the upload of the series :)

[@ChinaHour]

Thank you for watching with us!

[@globalagriculture9581]

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[@martinvuyk5326]

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

[@leafster1337]

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

[@holdmybeer]

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

[@arthas640]

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]

@@arthas640 ☕Pure ceylon tea☕ Tea plucking ## Tea Land in srilanka kzbin.info/www/bejne/pH_Qi2lvaL2Sh5Y

[@MsHburnett]

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

[@netrabantawa3439]

Lovely 😍

[@kanora582]

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]

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]

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]

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

[@PennyDreadful1]

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.

[@GamelanSinarSurya]

Inspiring, informative and aesthetically beautiful program. 谢谢.

[@bestfinancialeducation9084]

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

[@vutrungthanh2112]

What a great film

[@alicediscovertheworld]

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

[@lilearth7273]

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

[@Tech-Priest]

None, it's not medicine.

[@lordfarquar9215]

ThAtS rAcIsT

[@lordfarquar9215]

@@Tech-Priest yes it is. Google medicine and the definition

[@hyliantrue]

Take a shot every time they say “Tea”

[@mikkelnpetersen]

I'll take a sip from my cup o' tea instead.

[@mitchellgreeney9702]

How to die of alcohol poisoning

[@JoeJTSJoe]

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. :/

[@oldsport3364]

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

[@sharifhossain8772]

THANK YOU IT IS LEARNING SUBJECT

[@docdoc4129]

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

[@user-os4gm4gk7s]

好茶

[@ahmedalhouti4207]

Yea Ana. I mean Teavana is the best tea .

[@wickedandwell]

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.

[@pantsedjuniorhayseed4816]

orientalism at its finest.

[@youtubehatesus2651]

I like coffee

[@MADSCIENTISTGONESANE6166]

I like coffee and tea 🤗🤗🤗

[@ferdieng2983]

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

[@philfluther2713]

"Atishoo!".

[@GiantFromTartaria]

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

[@Weeping-Angel]

There’s nothing wrong with that. Freestyle 👍

[@helloitscasey]

that’s a traditional practice

[@The_Erik_Saga]

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

[@arthas640]

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]

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[@missanna208802]

Just watched the dark side of tea.

[@SATAN-qd6hk]

Улун

[@growingmelancholy8374]

Twinings? hahaha

[@roksraka9241]

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

[@ExNihiloComesNothing]

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

[@stephanievaughan837]

Tt

[@morganolfursson2560]

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

[@StopFear]

Pretentious documentary for cultural tourists.

[@arthas640]

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]

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[@morganolfursson2560]

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