When publishing and/or speaking about tea in Burma, or any other place for instance, it is inevitable to depart on the trip to the realm of tea in China - in south-west China to be accurate - for that's as I'll describe in the following certainly from where tea is initially coming from. The conversation on if the real history of Burmese tea and the consuming of tea in Burma have started in China has possibly more to do with at the least some Bamars'/Burmans' reluctance to acknowledge that the source of tea is China and that the consuming of tea was adopted.
By them later from the Shan, than with tea, tea consuming and tea lifestyle itself. The facts are that tea both as place and cocktail was discovered and had become crucial section of Asian and later Shan lifestyle previously at any given time when no Bamar/Burman had ever set base in to what is in these days Burma (since 1989 also called Myanmar). Put simply the first kingdom of the Bamar the 'kingdom of Pagan' (that was actually launched by the Pyu, and while we are at it, Anawrahta, the 42nd master of Pagan. TUPI TEA
Who's by the Bamar Burman considered the founder of the first Burman empire was a Pyu, not just a Bamar/Burman) did in the past not exist what's previously the distinct reply to the issue of the source of tea, tea drinking and tea culture in Burma; Burma or any precursor of it really didn't exist in or during the era involved, period. But why exist however persons (not so most of them, though) who in the face of most facts and reason say that Burmese tea, tea drinking and tea lifestyle aren't originated in China? Short answer:
Because the location which was in pre-Bamar time inhabited by the Shan is currently putting partly within the far north east of Burma. But, that these parts are in these times situated within Burma's limits does definitely not mean that the actual area in which Camellia sinensis was discovered and from wherever after that it distribute to India, through all south-east Asia and, finally, around the world lies within north-east Burma. It's possible however it can be possible that Camellia sinensis - translated from Latin in to English the name means.
