茶、茶文化 英语简介.pptVIP

Tea and Tea Culture I. Tea in phonetics About its name globally, words for tea fall into two main different groups . One is Te, from tê in the Amoy dialect, spoken in Fujian Province and Taiwan. It reached the West from the port of Xiamen (Amoy), once a major port of contact with European traders such as the Dutch, who spread it to Western Europe. The other is Cha from the Cantonese chàh, spoken in Guangzhou Port (Canton) and the ports of Hong Kong and Macau, which are also major points of contact especially with the Portuguese. They spread it to India in the 16th century. The Korea