A Tea of Their Own
First, some context: To understand tea culture in Georgia, you have to understand Russia's relationship to tea. The Russian aristocracy fell for tea in 1638, when ambassadors from the Golden Khanate in northwestern Mongolia gifted four pounds of green tea from China, in sixteen
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That was very interesting. I learned a lot by reading this article
Having the freedom to be creative with all this historic background makes for some interesting years ahead for Georgian tea. I know the Indians have neem trees in their tea plantation fields while Liptons in Kenyan leaves natural corridors of native trees inviting all sorts of wondrous creatures to live nearby…makes for better tea tourism too. In Taiwan, when bushes were young or recovering from a severe pruning, they grew ginger in between the rows. They also used peanut shells as mulch in between the rows . What the tea world can teach each other is inspiring!
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What makes Georgian tea valuable is that it provides an opportunity for ideas that go beyond the mere fact that tea can be produced in Europe like in the East. Wine has a history of 8,000 years, and Georgia has been mentioned as its place of origin, and tea has a history of 4,700 years. Until now, much of the history of tea has been recognized in terms of cultivated botany. If we are interested in experience, research can focus on Georgia’s potential as a place of origin. This article provides an opportunity to discover new facts about tea, which is acknowledged to have been discovered later than wine. In that respect, this article is valuable, and editor Bolton’s sense stands out. Tea sufficiently meets the stage of tea culture. Attempts to solve social problems and prepare for a future human society through tea culture have emerged through numerous academic activities. As a result, Tsaiology was published in 1826. However, it was not sufficient to establish a logical and objective knowledge system of tea and did not reach the point of developing a discipline unit. In 2000, 224 various disciplines related to tea and tea culture were developed. We succeeded in developing the experience in tea culture to the stages of recognition – fact checking – information preparation – knowledge development – theory establishment – a discipline. As a result, it was concluded that the nature of tea-related studies is a complex of diverse and heterogeneous tea-derived phenomena. Tea culture is divided into six categories: humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, art and interdisciplinary studies. On that basis, it became Teaics and was listed in the Routledge Handbook of tea tourism index in 2023. Tea has reached the stage of discipline. Teaic antropology, a discipline belonging to Teaics, is expected to further discover the value of Georgia’s tea cultures y3973@naver.com /Brian Park Korea