紅茶

紅 is red, and 茶 is tea, so 紅茶 is red tea.

In Japanese, the kanji 紅茶 refers to non-Japanese tea.

Black tea is one of the more fermented and stronger-tasting teas. The tea was called “black tea” by European traders, who named it after the color of the leaves, although the brewed tea has a reddish hue (and in Chinese is called red tea, while black tea in Chinese refers to post-fermented teas like Pu'er tea).

Origin Story

Black tea was invented relatively recently in the seventeenth century. according to legend, after traveling soldiers interrupted production at a tea factory, prompting the producers to dry the leaves over pine-cone fires.

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