In 1669, Britain's East India Company began purchasing tea in the Fujianese city of Xiamen (the local language of which gives "tea" its English name), and the beverage soon became popular in the West. Chinese tea would dominate global markets for the next 200 years.
西元 1669 年，英國東印度公司開始自中國廈門採買茶葉，以閩南語「茶」發音的「tea」成了西方上流社會的時髦飲品，此後二百多年，中國茶流芳全球。