Tea is an emotion for us Indians. For a country of tea lovers, chai is more than just a beverage. There are many types of flavored teas around the world, but have you ever heard of the world’s most expensive tea leaves?
Today we will tell you about the most expensive tea in the world, knowing the value of which will also blow your senses.
We are talking about the Da Hong Pao Tea found in China. The name of this tea leaf is among the most expensive tea found in the world. Its price is INR 6,72,000 per pot in 2016. Now you can guess it value right now. Basically, it costs over 30 times its weight in gold.
Basically, it costs over 30 times its weight in gold. The reason it’s so expensive is that it is rare and, therefore, exclusive. Da-hong pao is cultivated in the Wuyi Mountains of Fujian Province, China. There are many beneficial properties of this tea, which you are hardly aware of.
It contains caffeine, theophylline, tea polyphenols , and flavonoids. Drinking Da Hong Pao could mitigate weariness and help blood circulation. And it could also treat edema and water retention. It helps decrease the bad effects of drinking and smoking. The elements contained in Da Hong Pao could reduce the alcohol and nicotine. Drinking Da Hong Pao regularly is good for the skin and helps lose weight. Lastly, it helps relieving cough and reducing phlegm.
There was a scholar who was very sick on his way to Beijing for an exam. A monk of Tianxin Temple found him and brewed a bowl of tea picked from Wuyi Mountain for the scholar. Then the scholar felt much better and energetic. Later, he won the first place in the exam. So he came back to the temple to thank the monk who saved him. Later, he also uses this tea to cure the emperor’s illness. The emperor rewarded the scholar with a red robe and asked the scholar to put the red robe on the tea tree. The red robe was considered a high honor at that time. The emperor also gave orders that all officials passing through this place must put their red robes on the tea trees to show the emperor’s gratitude for his healing. After that, the tea trees were named Big Red Robe which in Chinese pronunciation is Da Hong Pao.