Effects of Chinese tea culture on American’s life

Primarily, Chinese tea culture refers to the occasions when people consumed tea as well as how tea as prepared in China. Moreover, the tea culture in China is peculiar, and it differs from tea culture from other parts of the world such as European countries such as Britain and Japan in Asia on how it is prepared. Remarkably, tea being one of the most popular beverages across the globe it is regularly consumed both on formal and casual occasions. It is utilized in Chinese cuisine Chinese traditional medicine. Therefore, this paper seeks to underscore a critical discussion on the effects of Chinese tea culture on the American’s lives (Reid et al., 22).  

Notably, over the past few decades, United States has embraced the Chinese tea culture in their workplaces and restaurants, which was initially predominated by drip brew coffee from machines. Tea in America was originally meant for the elderly; nonetheless, this nation is outdated since drinking is synonymous with all ages and tea parties can be celebrated on many auspicious occasions from the minute to big family gatherings. Furthermore, tea is served, early in the morning, at dawn, and midday or whenever one feels like taking a cup of tea.

Remarkably, the Chinese tea culture has been embraced enormously due to the benefits it beholds to the health and living standards of the Americans. Tea is good for the heart, to begin with, studies ascertain the fact that tea is an essential beverage because green and black tea may help prevent heart diseases and stroke. American has made it a duty of inculcating tea as a drink in their daily delicacies and diets since this has a benefit of reducing the bad and high cholesterol content in the heart muscle (Janssen 34). The presence of cholesterol in the myogenic cardiac muscles may result to contraction of heart attack or heart failure when the coronary artery is blocked. Furthermore, the phytochemical present in tea as a beverage exacerbate and improves the functionality of the blood vessels and the arteries dilation. Eventually, increasing blood flow and at the same time dwindle the blood pressure hence controls hypertension. It is, for this reason, the majority of American citizens embraces the tea culture.

Additionally, another health benefit of tea culture to the body is that teams are hydrating the body hence improves the body process as well as the physical appearances. A cup of tea contains approximately 90% of water (Blumentha’25). Hence, it remains a major source of the body fluids and hence enhances body biochemical process or metabolism. Likewise, tea is also a source of valuable body mineral potassium that regulates the body moisture and makes the body stays hydrated (Towler 23).

Tea has made the Americans’ fabulous because of its unusual taste, soothing and ability to rejuvenate wrong both from outside and inside. Tea is a soothing stress reliever, soothing, green tea is known for its capacity to improve skin complexion, as well as eroding wrinkles, sun damage, age spots, and reactivate skin cells. The benefits that emanate from the consumption of tea motivated and encouraged many Americans to change their notion towards tea culture. After the different benefits that the consumption tea, and the culture adopted by the Americans, dangerous trading ensued between the two countries with tea as the primary commodity (Liu, 24).

In all over the world, including the pioneer culture and that is the Chinese tea cultures are fascinating. Tea, which is the second largely, consumed beverage on the entire globe after water wins the minds of people and capture minds and becomes people’s way of life. Across the world teach has a different culture (Dublin 26). In the case of Chinese culture, for instance, tea was used a medicine that is the tea blended with spices whereas in golden ages it was consumed for artistic inspirations and pleasure. The sensational and fascinating culture that a tea drinking ceremony beholds compelled the American to adopt the tea culture also to be in the system.

The choice of American o tea as a beverage was influenced mostly by the great benefits embedded in the consumption of tears itself. Moreover, this makes tea a unique drink on the globe due since also tea acts a stimulant drug, which is very essential n reading as it awakens the brain and enhances proper meditation (Blumenthal 12). Teas as a beverage are also calories free and serve as a better alternative of predominated beverage in America coffee. Tea being calories free when taking without sugar, and other ingratiates it is essential to fat and lipids regulation, hence, upholds weight loss. Tea made drunk immediately after a meal removes the puckish feeling and ushers in a sensational and fascinating mood.

In conclusion, tea as a beverage in the second most consumed beverages after water. Tea culture mainly originated from the Far East with the Chinese. Tea is an essential beverage to the body since it has numerous health benefits to consumers. The many key benefits become the yard still that influenced the choice of the Americans to embrace the Chinese tea culture.

 

 

 

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