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Which country invented milk tea?

Milk tea was invented in China. Milk tea was originally the daily drink of the nomadic people in the north of China, made from a mixture of milk and black tea, and has a history of more than a thousand years. Milk tea has gradually spread around the world since the Yuan Dynasty, and has since spread and evolved to develop a variety of flavors.

In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, Mongolia produced a leader, Genghis Khan. Along the way, he conquered Asia, Europe, and even fought his way to Africa, bringing Mongolian culture to the West, which also included milk tea. Yuanming period, the milk tea through China to the West, encountered the king of England like milk tea, to transform it into the milk tea we drink now, but the milk tea ancestor is still from China.

Milk tea is the traditional tea drinking custom of Mongolian people. In the pastoral area, they are used to three meals a day tea, a meal. Therefore, drinking salted milk tea, in addition to quenching their thirst, is also a major method of supplementing human nutrition. Every morning, the first thing the housewife does is to first cook a pot of salted milk tea for the whole family to enjoy throughout the day.

The Mongolian plateau is the home of the nomads, but also the birthplace of milk tea, the original most authentic milk tea is Mongolian milk tea. Nomads used to drink milk tea while eating fried rice. The milk tea of the Mongolian plateau and Central Asia has never changed for thousands of years, and is still a necessary beverage for daily drinking and hospitality.