Thursday, 19 January 2012

Tea Culture in UK 【PART III】

Now, people in Britain drink tea multiple times a day. As the years passed it became a drink less associated with high society as people of all classes drink tea today which can be enjoyed in many different flavors and ways. What really challenge tea is soda drink because it’s convinces and thirst-quenching. The average soda drink spending is going up and up. However, the average tea spending is reducing day by day. The importance of tea in Britain can also be shown in British language. Along with the increasing demand of tea and the formation of tea culture, it seems that there are considerable tea-related expressions in English. Compared with Chinese tea ceremony, British tea ceremony is less remarkable. 

However, no one can deny that lady like Victoria afternoon tea. Tea drinks and the English tea set make a great contribution to the world tea culture. To enjoy black tea is to experience British unique culture tradition and her hospitality. Exports to New England also declined from 291,899 pounds in 1768 to 151,184 pounds in 1772. When Parliament repealed the Townsend Duties in 1770, it retained the tax on tea as a symbol of the right and power of Parliament to tax the colonies. 

What’s more, there are many phrases which are related to “tea” in English, such as tea cup, teapot, tea cake etc. Over several hundred years, drinking tea becomes a kind of habit and a custom after tea was introduced into Europe and Britain.   Parliament anticipated that the Tea Act would lower tea prices in America and increase profits for the East India Company. British colonists, however, interpreted the Tea Act as an attempt by the British government to force them to accept Parliament's right to tax them.

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