yiheyuans:can i take a moment and lol because lucy liu is taiwanese american and joan watson is ch
yiheyuans: can i take a moment and lol because lucy liu is taiwanese american and joan watson is chinese american and would presumably (at least in this canon, when she mentions that her mother used to make tea for her when she was sick) know about tea given that the tea plant comes from fucking china? and was most likely drunk starting from the shang dynasty, which was, btw, founded in or around 1600 BCE and did not become popular in britain until the 17th century CE after which they thought it was cute to drug us so they’d have a favourable trade balance because they wanted our shit (tea, porcelain) but we didn’t want theirs? tl;dr can we stop it with this idea that the brits are the only people ever to have had a tea culture and the only people ever to have placed any sort of importance or cultural significance on tea you have tea time great we have a few thousand fucking years of drinking and brewing tea and entire fucking ceremonies ok -- source link
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