Why does China export all those cheap teas?
and keep the good ones for themselves? The low price jasmine leaf tea and so-called gunpowder that one sees...
China
A (Very) Brief History of Green Tea
The use of tealeaves as a medicine has been in existence for three millenniums in China, but it is unclear when it has become a drink until Wang. Further records of it being a hospitality beverage and a grocery item were…