What are the two legends about the discovery of tea?
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Two Legends about the Tea: 1) There's the one about the Chinese emperor who always boiled water before drinking it. 2) Bodhidharma an ancient Buddhist ascetic cut off his eyelids because he felt sleepy during meditation.
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There are two legends on the discovery of tea - India and Chinese. According to the Indian legend, there was a Buddhist ascetic named Bodhidharma. He often fell asleep during meditation. To stop this, he cut off his eyelids. It is said that ten tea plants grew out of the eyelids. The leaves of this plant were put in hot water and drunk to banish sleep. The legend connects the energising quality of tea with the asectic's problem of sleep. The chinese legend tells us that there was a Chinese emperor who always had boiled water. Once a few leaves from a twig fell into his boiling water. They gave a delicious flavour to his water, and from then, tea became popular in China.