aves are allowed to partially oxidize before being heated in the pan, was developed.[24] Western tastes, however, favoured the fully oxidized black tea, and the leaves were allowed to oxidize further. Yellow tea was an accidental discovery in the production of green tea during the Ming dynasty, when apparently careless practices allowed the leaves to turn yellow, which yielded a different flavour.[28]Worldwide spread[සංස්කරණය]Tea-weighing station north of Batumi, Russian Empire before 1915Tea was first introduced to Western priests and merchants in China during the 16th century, at which time it was termed chá.[29] The earliest European reference to tea, written as chiai, came from Delle navigationi e viaggi written by Venetian Giambattista Ramusio in 1545.[30] The first recorded shipment of tea by a European nation was in 1607 when the Dutch East India Company moved a cargo of tea from Macao to Java, then two years later, the Dutch bought the first assignment of tea which was from