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The two legends related to the tea origin are : Indian Legend : A monk named "Bodhidharma" once felt very sleepy while he was meditating. So, he cut off his eye lids. Then, from those eye lids, ten plants arosed. Rajvir said that no one really knows who discovered tea. He told Pranjol that there are many legends attached to tea, to the discovery of tea. According to one story, a Chinese emperor discovered tea by chance. He always boiled water before drinking it. One day a few leaves off the twigs burning under the pot fell into the water. As a result, the boiled water got a delicious flavour. It is said they were tea leaves. According to another Indian legend, Bodhidharma, an ancient Buddhist monk, felt sleep during meditations. So he cut off his eyelids. Ten tea plants grew out of the eyelids. The leaves of these plants when put in hot water and drunk banished sleep.  Rajvir told Pranjol that tea was first drunk in China in 2700 B.C. Words like ‘chai’ and ‘chini are Chinese. Tea came to Europe in the sixteenth century. At first, it was used more as a medicine than as a beverage. Both Rajvir and Pranjol reached Mariani junction. Pranjol’s parents received them on the platform they took them in a car to Dhekiabari, the tea estate managed by Pranjol’s father. On both sides of the tee, they were acres and acres of tea bushes. Women with bamboo baskets on their backs were plucking the new tea leaves, They had come there in the sprouting season. Rajvir said that this season lasts from May 10 July. The best tea is produced during this season. Pranjol’s father told Rajvir that he knew many things about tea Phauations. He said that he would learn more about tea there.

Rajvir told Pranjol that tea was first drunk in China in 2700 B.C. Words like 'chai' and 'chini are Chinese. Tea came to Europe in the sixteenth century. At first, it was used more as a medicine than as a beverage. Both Rajvir and Pranjol reached Mariani junction.