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茶叶传入欧洲以前,不少旅行家早就传诵它对健康的好处;现今所知,以九世纪的伊斯兰教徒苏利曼为最早。1655年,霍恩·纽霍夫随同荷兰东印度公司一队人马去觐见中国皇帝时,也说起过茶叶可以治疗痛风病。明朝宫廷耶稣教教士利玛窦曾报道过中国人以饮茶来延年祛病。茶叶大约是在1610年前后,由荷兰船只从爪哇带进欧洲的。荷兰人于1596年赴爪哇,建立了一个东方产
Before the arrival of tea in Europe, many travelers have long been accustomed to the health benefits of it; as far as is known, the earliest nineteenth-century Islamist Suleiman. In 1655, when Hornnunhoff, along with a team of Dutch East India firms, went to see the Chinese emperor, he also talked about tea that can cure gout. Matteo Ricci, the court priest of the Ming court, reported that Chinese people used tea to prolong their illnesses. About 1610 tea leaves were brought from Europe by Dutch ships from Java. The Dutch went to Java in 1596 to set up an Oriental production