British Tea Culture And Its Impact

In the 16th century, some records about China Tea had appeared in the Europeans writings. 17th century, Chinese tea adopted formally into the European market by Portugal and Netherlands through trades, many western countries had joined the ranks of Chinese tea consumption, but only England formed its own tea culture system. The tea culture of England rooted in its traditional cultural soil, and the formation is affected by the domestic politics, the economy and the social life and so on, at the same time, the British learned from the experiences of Asian countries, then, the tea culture ultimately formed after 400 years of accumulation.In this paper, the research of the British tea culture mainly comes from the trade history, tea culture content and its social impact, and then concludes the essential characteristics of the British tea culture. The first part of this article is about the development of the British tea trade, focuses on the time, the course and the scale of the development, summarized the impacts of all these factors on the British tea culture formation, the focus will be on the trade in Victorian era. The second part of the article directly reveals the point, focuses on the analysis of the main content of tea culture, and summarizes the complete track of the development of British tea culture. The third chapter exposes the social impact of British tea culture; analyze the contact with tea culture and the British political, economic, social thinking and humanity character, sums up the spirit connotation of British tea culture.The tea aroma diffuses in the whole England, the British tea culture is one symbol of the characteristics of the United Kingdom, its temperament is noble and elegant, and it has a profound impact on the British's life style and ideology. In this paper, the author selects British tea culture as study subject, tries to make an all-round and detailed description of the formation of British tea culture and its cultural content, verify the specific historical facts at the same time, then reveal the relations with the tea culture and British colonial expansion, British gentlemanly manners and the national spirit of Britain, concludes the essential connotation of British tea culture.