A day without food is better than a day without tea. When it comes to the history of China people drinking tea, it's endless day and night. However, influenced by the traditional impression, many people think that men love tea more than women. In fact, there are not a few women who love tea and drink tea. There are many experienced women who love tea in history.

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These beautiful women like drinking tea.

Zhou Fang, a painter in the Tang Dynasty, once painted a picture of drinking tea on the piano, depicting the fifth lady and the third lady sitting in the courtyard, playing the piano, drinking tea and listening to songs under the service of two maids, which showed the aristocratic women's leisure and quiet enjoyment of life, indicating that drinking tea was very common among women at that time.

Princess Wencheng of the Tang Dynasty also likes drinking tea. When she married Songzan Gambu, she brought tea and dowry in addition to gold and silver jewelry and silk. Under the propaganda of Princess Wencheng, the wind of drinking tea quickly became popular in Tibet, and on this basis, the unique local tea culture was derived.

Li Qingzhao is a representative figure of graceful ci school in Song Dynasty, a master of tea tasting and the initiator of tea order. In the preface to The Story of the Stone, she vividly described the tea ceremony she held with her husband Zhao Mingcheng: "I remember that after every meal, I would go back to make tea. This refers to the accumulation of book history, saying that something in a book, a volume, a page and a line will win or lose, which is the order of drinking tea." Hold up a cup and laugh until the tea turns over, but you can't drink it. "

By the end of modern Qing Dynasty, Empress Dowager Cixi, the actual ruler, also liked drinking tea very much, and it was very elegant. The tea you drink is different all year round. You drink Longjing in summer, black tea in winter and Pu 'er tea at the turn of winter and spring. In addition, it is said that there are specialized tea makers and greenhouses and pavilions for drinking tea in different seasons.

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There are many advantages for women to drink tea.

Cooking and tasting tea can relax your body and mind. Drinking some tea in moderation every day is also good for health and many benefits for women. Free radicals are the chief culprit in accelerating human aging.

? Prevent premature senility

Shennong Shijing once recorded that "drinking tea for a long time is powerful and pleasing to the heart", and miscellaneous records also recorded that "bitter tea is light and beneficial to health." Free radicals are the chief culprit in accelerating human aging. Tea polyphenols, flavonoids and other ingredients contained in tea have a good anti-aging effect and help to eliminate excessive free radicals in the human body.

? Reduce fat and lose weight

In the Tang Dynasty's Herbal Collection, it was recorded that tea "makes people thin and lose fat after eating for a long time." In other words, drinking tea often can relieve boredom and make people lose weight. Modern research also shows that caffeine and flavanol in tea can enhance gastrointestinal peristalsis and contribute to food digestion and fat decomposition.

? Dental caries prevention and tooth fixation

The effect of tea on preventing caries and strengthening teeth is related to its own healthy elements. The first is fluorine. Tea contains a lot of fluorine, and proper fluorine is an important element to inhibit dental caries. Secondly, tea polyphenols can inhibit the production and reproduction of oral bacteria, thus preventing the occurrence of dental caries.

? Fresh breath

Drinking tea can have a good effect of refreshing breath, mainly because tea polyphenols in tea have a good preventive and killing effect on fungi existing in oral cavity, and the surface activity of tea saponin can also play a role in clearing bad breath and cleaning oral cavity. -Part of the information comes from "knowing tea, making tea and tasting tea"

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Tea suitable for women.

There are so many kinds of tea, which ones are more suitable for women to drink? You can try these healthy little tea recipes.

Rose slimming tea

Ingredients: 5 grams of rose, 5 grams of cassia seed, 5 grams of hawthorn, 5 grams of licorice and 5 grams of mint.

Practice: brew the above materials with 300 ml of boiling water, and dry them to a suitable temperature before drinking.

√ motherwort Yiqi tea

Ingredients: motherwort 200g, green tea 2g, licorice 3g, brown sugar 20g.

Practice: put motherwort, green tea and licorice into a pot, add 600 ml of water and boil; Add brown sugar and drink after the brown sugar melts.

√ Wolfberry Shouwu Hair Care Tea

Ingredients: Fructus Lycii, Radix Polygoni Multiflori Preparata and Radix Rehmanniae Preparata each 15g.

Practice: put the materials into the pot, add appropriate amount of water, boil for 20 minutes, dry to a suitable temperature and drink.

Green sleeve tea

Ingredients: dried tangerine peel10g, lotus leaf 6g, chrysanthemum 3g.

Practice: put the materials into a cup, pour 200 ml of boiling water, soak for a while and drink.

√ Walnut and Jujube Tea

Ingredients: 5 walnuts, 2 red dates, 2 longan, 3g black tea.

Practice: put the materials into a cup, pour 200 ml of boiling water, soak for a while and drink.

Although drinking tea has many benefits, we should also correctly understand the role of tea, especially for female friends in special periods, so as not to cause physical discomfort. Only by knowing tea, making tea, tasting tea and drinking tea with your heart can you truly appreciate the charm of tea.