Tea in ancient china: Did you mean...?

American colonists dump British tea into Boston Harbor in the Boston Tea Party, 16 December 1773, illustration from The History of North America by W. D. Cooper. London: E. Newberry, 1789. Library of Congress, Washington D.C.

The reconstructed gilded tea room of Fushimi Castle, Kyoto. The castle and tea room was originally built by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the military leader of Japan from 1582-1598 CE.

Matcha, the powdered green tea used in the traditional Japanese tea ceremony.

A hishaku (bamboo ladle) and chawan (bowl) used in the Japanese tea ceremony. Before mixing the tea the bowl is rinsed with fresh water.

In Ancient China, it was widely known that it was better to be born a male than a female. To be born a female meant being subordinate to one’s father, then to one’s husband and if a wife became a widow, then she would be subordinate to her...

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Boston Tea Party, 16 December 1773, hand-colored lithograph by Nathaniel Currier, 1846. Springfield Museums, Springfield, MA.

A traditional Japanese tea room with tatami matting, caligraphy hanging scroll and a single vase of flowers. The hearth is set into the floor on the left.

The essential implements of the chanoyu or Japanese tea ceremony.

Left: A Chinese tea bowl of black glazed stone ware, Song Dynasty, 960-1279 CE. Right: A Chinese lacquered bowl stand, Yuan Dynasty, 13th century CE. (British Museum, London)