tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16115542.post1717738314935138539..comments2024-03-16T11:51:28.412-04:00Comments on CHA DAO: Cha 茶 and Ming 茗: The Role of Stress in the Relative Quality of Tea as Recorded in the Chajing, the Tang Classic of Teacoraxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03645573592247798140noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16115542.post-25437447365577066172007-12-11T07:12:00.000-05:002007-12-11T07:12:00.000-05:00This is a great article. A friend told me one of ...This is a great article. A friend told me one of our teachers said once that Cha is probably a word originating in India and that Ming was the original Chinese word for tea. I wish I had some scholarly reaserch I could quote to back this up. This may be incorrect in this case, but often when a language has two words for the same thing, one is borrowed from another language just like cow and beef, sheep and mutton. It is, however, possible that the land area that is now China produced many words for tea, especially since Yunnan alone (the probable 'birthplace of tea') is so linguistically rich, there are certainly numerous words for tea there. Lu Yu in his Chajing lists five words for tea... who knows where they all came from originally?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com