At the age of 17, she fought for the glory of her motherland!

Chapter 121 Others Pick It Up Like Pearls and Jade

When Su Xing talked about that period of history, his expression became somewhat complicated and his tone became heavy.

When the tourists around heard Su Xing's words, many of them looked indignant.

Grandpa Su stared at his granddaughter in a daze, unable to come back to his senses for a long time...

Uncle Su, Grandpa Zheng and others also looked at Su Xing in shock.

The way Su Yu looked at her cousin was as if she didn't recognize her!

Su Xing sighed and continued, "Our tea planting and tea making technologies were introduced to India. More than a decade later, 'Indian tea' was born and sold to countries around the world, becoming India's main export product. Since then, many foreigners with ulterior motives have deliberately distorted the facts and spread nonsense that the country of origin of tea is India! Many people actually believed those ridiculous fallacies and really thought that India was the country of origin of tea. They also believed that black tea was an Indian technology, and praised India's Darjeeling black tea and Assam black tea to the sky! In fact, the ancestor of black tea is our country's Zhengshan Xiaozhong, which is produced in Tongmuguan, Wuyi Mountain, my country!"

The pigtailed boy met Su Xing's gaze, feeling embarrassed and speechless. She almost pointed at his nose and scolded him...

The girl in white looked at Su Xing expectantly, waiting for her to continue.

The girl in blue and the guy with a buzz cut felt like they were sitting on pins and needles...

Su Xing was actually a little sad when he said this, "It's a pity... my country was in a turbulent period for a long time from the 1978th century to the 3540th century, and there was no time to correct these mistakes! In the s, many tea lovers in my country tried to take back the title of 'the origin of tea'. They took out a large number of historical documents, poems and books in my country to prove that my country was the origin of tea, but those foreigners just didn't recognize my country's historical data and falsely accused us that those materials might be fabricated by us... Until , the broad-leaved magnolia fossil was discovered in Jinggu, Yunnan Province, my country. It was the ancestor of tea, about million years ago! Until that moment, geologists and botanists from all over the world finally recognized that China was the origin of tea..."

The girl in white felt her nose a little sore, and she rubbed it casually.

Su Yu felt that the sunlight was a bit dazzling today, and she blinked hard...

The people around were silent and listened attentively...

The boy with pigtails stammered, "You, what you said...it's not unofficial history..."

"Ha!" Su Xing sneered, "In 1978, my country discovered the fossil of the ancestor of tea. This was jointly announced by the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing and the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology. Botanists and geologists all over the world have acknowledged this. Is this so hard for you to accept? Or are you unable to accept the fact that the British stole our tea varieties and technology? Or are you only willing to acknowledge things written by foreigners?"

"Then I recommend you a book, "The Great Tea Thief: The Chinese Tea That Changed World History" written by a beautiful Chinese. The author is Sarah Ross. She wrote Robert Fortune's deeds into an 'adventure story', which has been praised by readers and media in many countries! London's Daily Mail, the Scottish Journal, Hong Kong's South China Morning Post, the Chicago Sun-Times... countless media in various countries have reported on it. You might as well tell whether the book written by the British you mentioned is more credible, or the book written by this beautiful Chinese is closer to the truth?"

After a pause, she added, "There may not be a Chinese version of this book yet, but I believe that you have so many connections overseas that you will definitely be able to buy the original book."

Su Xing's last words caused a burst of low laughter among the originally quiet crowd...

Some people were talking in low voices.

"Those foreigners are always eyeing our culture..."

"Alas... During this special period in our country, too many treasures and civilizations were stolen..."

"Some young people nowadays don't really identify with our own culture. It's so sad..."

The guy with the buzz cut wanted to cover his face. He felt that he had never been so embarrassed before...

The girl in blue glanced at the people around her with a unhappy expression.

The boy with pigtails had a blue and purple face. He tried to remain calm, but his tone was a little timid. "Then...what about the Japanese tea ceremony? You can't deny that the tea ceremony culture in Japan is better than that in our country!"

Su Xing snorted and said, "The tea culture of Japan originated from my country. It is recorded in Japan's "Hiyoshi Shinto Secret Records" that in 805 AD, the Japanese monk Saicho came to my country to learn doctrines. When he returned to Japan, he took away Chinese tea seeds and planted them next to the Hiyoshi Shrine, ending Japan's history of having no tea."

"my country's tea culture reached its peak during the Song Dynasty. People in the Song Dynasty were no longer satisfied with just drinking tea. Tea-fighting competitions, also known as tea battles, were popular at that time. Song Huizong's seven-tea-making method is a classic way to fight tea. There is also the 'tea-dividing', also known as 'tea-playing', which has been described in the poems of many literati such as Tao Gu, Lu You, and Li Qingzhao. You can draw ink and color on the tea soup! It was at that time that Japan learned my country's tea-dividing and tea-dividing methods, and they only learned the basics. After returning and revising them, it became their own tea culture!"

At this point, Su Xing's tone was somewhat sad. "After the Yuan Dynasty destroyed the Song Dynasty, it brought a devastating disaster to many of our cultural heritages. Our traditional culture was broken. Although the tea culture of the Song Dynasty was recorded in many documents, it was not truly passed down..."

"In 2004, Mr. Zhang Zhifeng, a Chinese tea expert, was selected by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of my country as the first international exchange fellow in the field of tea science to teach Chinese tea culture in Japan. He was inspired by the tea-making method and tools used in the Japanese tea ceremony. After returning to China, he spent five years and conducted hundreds of experiments. Finally, in 2009, he restored the ancient and precious cultural heritage of tea-making and tea art..."

She paused at this point because she almost blurted out: In 2017, Tea Art was listed as an intangible cultural heritage of Fujian Province!

Su Xing stared at the boy with pigtails and continued, "'We discarded it like a worn-out shoe, but others picked it up as if it were a pearl!' I know that many Chinese people nowadays are disdainful of our own cultural heritage and don't take it seriously! But we threw away the 'pearls' as 'fish eyes', and others picked them up. They polished off the pearlescent luster on the surface of the pearls and coated them with a layer of gold powder. Some people in our country think that the 'golden pearls' are dazzling and valuable! It's really ridiculous!"

The boy with pigtails' face flushed and his chest heaved, but he couldn't utter a word for a long time.

Several of his companions also felt embarrassed and blushed.

The tourists around were also silent!

They were just watching the show with great interest and secretly laughing at the boy with pigtails who was left speechless.

But at this moment, some people also blushed.

They felt that this pretty girl wasn't just targeting the pigtailed boy, but also many of them...

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