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Tea buried in the Han Yangling mausoleum

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Plant remains recovered from the tomb complex of Emperor Jing of Han near Xi'an were identified as tea leaf buds through phytolith and biomolecular analysis, giving the earliest secure physical evidence of tea anywhere. Comparable remains from the Gurgyam cemetery in Ngari, western Tibet, dated to around the second to third century CE, show tea already moving across the Tibetan Plateau. Together they push documented tea consumption and long-distance tea movement several centuries earlier than textual records alone allowed.

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  1. Story
  2. Plant remains recovered from the tomb complex of Emperor Jing of Han near Xi'an were identified as tea leaf buds through phytolith and biomolecular analysis, giving the earliest secure physical evidence of tea anywhere. Comparable remains from the Gurgyam cemetery in Ngari, western Tibet, dated to around the second to third century CE, show tea already moving across the Tibetan Plateau. Together they push documented tea consumption and long-distance tea movement several centuries earlier than textual records alone allowed.
  3. Knowledge
  4. Tea
  5. Camellia sinensis
  6. Tea culture
  7. Tea buried in the Han Yangling mausoleum
  8. Connections
  9. Tea
  10. Camellia sinensis
  11. Tea culture
  12. Camellia sinensis
  13. Silver
  14. London
  15. Tea Horse Road (Chamagudao)
  16. Canton (historical) — modern Guangzhou
  17. English (later British) East India Company
  18. Tea culture
  19. Tea buried in the Han Yangling mausoleum
  20. Tea-for-horse exchange between China and Tibet
  21. Tea first shipped to Europe by sea
  22. Qing trade confined to Canton
  23. Boston Tea Party
  24. Commutation Act cuts British tea duty
  25. Robert Bruce shown tea growing in Assam
  26. East India Company's China monopoly ends; Tea Committee founded
  27. First Assam tea auctioned in London
  28. The Opium Wars
  29. Treaty of Nanking
  30. Tea
  31. Darjeeling
  32. Yunnan
  33. Assam
  34. Growing conditions for tea (altitude, rainfall, drainage)
  35. Tea buried in the Han Yangling mausoleum
  36. Robert Bruce shown tea growing in Assam
  37. First tea planted at Darjeeling
  38. Robert Fortune removes tea plants and tea makers from China
  39. Tea
  40. Afternoon tea
  41. Tea buried in the Han Yangling mausoleum
  42. Tea first shipped to Europe by sea
  43. Commutation Act cuts British tea duty
  44. Evidence
  45. Phytolith and biomolecular analysis identifies tea in the Han Yangling mausoleum (c. 2nd century BCE) and at Gurgyam, Ngari, western Tibet (c. 2nd–3rd century CE), evidencing early tea consumption and overland movement.
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