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Matcha tea is a bright emerald green tea powder. It is 100% natural and organic Matcha tea also known as fine powder tea has originated from Japan. It has a history of 900 years. In Japanese “ Cha” means tea, and “Ma” means powder thus the word Matcha translates literally as powdered green tea. A Buddhist monk named Zen Master Esai made his journey back to his homeland japan. He had pursued knowledge in China’s Anhui province. He went back to Japan with a head full of ideas and a pouch of green tea seeds taken from the Huangshan Mountains of China. He planted the green tea seeds at the Daitokuji temple in Kyoto, Japan. Master Esai was the first person to introduce Zen philosophy to Japan and the pioneer in the practice consuming tea as a healthy beverage. He mixed up all the properties of matcha tea into his teachings by establishing a tea ritual, a practice that is still a part of Zen lifestyle today. Thus the inseparable bond between Zen and Matcha tea was formed.
