With rare tea, valuable porcelain and elegant ladies, it is hardly surprising that the high taxes only encouraged the English, and the culture of tea drinking quickly spread from the court and aristocracy to the rich merchant class.
茶稀瓷貴人嬌媚，也難怪重稅之下出勇婦，飲茶文化在英國從宮廷貴族到富商巨賈間迅速風行。