1658年,英国报纸上出现了一则前所未有的广告:“一种得到医学证实、优越的中国饮料,中国人称TCHA,其他国家称TAY或TEE,已在伦敦出售。”这是中国茶传人英国最早的文字记载。这里的TCHA、TAY、TEE,其实都是中国字“茶”的广东、闽南方言译音,在欧洲各国有不同的称法。茶叶在1610年左右初抵欧洲大陆时,已先在荷兰和法 In 1658, an unprecedented advertisement appeared in British newspapers: “A Chinese medicine that is medically proven and superior, known as TCHA in China, and TAY or TEE in other countries, has been sold in London.” “This is a Chinese tea successor The earliest written records in Britain. Here TCHA, TAY, TEE, are actually Chinese characters ”tea" Guangdong, Taiwanese dialect transliteration, in different countries in Europe have a different name. When tea arrived in continental Europe around 1610, it was first settled in the Netherlands and France