ORIGIN One of the earliest mentions of Matcha was found in a book called The Classic of Tea from 760 AD. Written by a Chinese scholar called Lu Yu who mentioned the Emperor Shen Nong (from 2700 BC), who experimented with hundreds of different plants and grasses to test their medicinal uses. Tea leaves shifted to ground powdered tea when Eisai (1141–1215 AD), the founder of the Rinzai sect of Zen Buddhism began to meditate with it. Esai realized that drinking matcha improved his Zen meditation sessions by producing a state of calm alertness. By the 14th century in Japan, ...
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