澳門──葡萄牙語“茶文化”之發祥地

After its transmission to Asian, European, African, Latin-American and other areas, Chinese tea culture experienced a process of blending, accommodation and innovation, and resulting to a variety of tea culture. Macau is the root and gateway of tea culture in the Portuguese world, whose original tea seeds and tea peasants were imported to Brazil and Portugal from Macau. The term “chá” integrated completely into the Portuguese language and its culture. The Portuguese noun “chá has the same spelling as the Chinese Pinyin “chá”, and has become an everyday word in the vocabulary of Portuguese and derives lots of phases, proverbs and slangs. This is a very interesting and rare phenomenon in western languages.