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The Entire History of Tea | Sleepy Bedtime History with Rain Sounds
Drift off to the entire four-thousand-year history of tea, from a legendary Chinese emperor to the Boston Tea Party, the Opium Wars, and bubble tea. Calm narration over gentle rain sounds for sleep.
Tonight, let the entire history of tea carry you gently off to sleep.
It began, according to legend, with a single leaf drifting into a pot of boiling water beneath a tree in ancient China. From there, tea became medicine, then art, then philosophy, then empire; and eventually, the second most consumed drink on Earth after water.
In this full-length sleep history episode, we follow that leaf…
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