Sunday, October 08, 2006

The new world record is established


New world record is established in Japan in Sunday. For this 14 718 inhabitants of Nishio town in the prefecture To ayti participated in raspitii of traditional Japanese tea of "mattya". In the presence of the official representative of the Guinness book of records all these people settle on both sides of 1,5- kilometer red mat and upon the command "itadakimasu", as in Japan it is accepted to speak before beginning meal, they began to together drink this stimulating beverage.

Ten minutes after the end of ceremony the representative of the book declared about the fact that the record of zaschitan. Participants in the measure reacted by the loud exclamations of happiness and by applause.

Tea of "mattya" is not similar to the usual welding. This is the small powder mass of tea leaf, which must be welded by special method, shaking up together with the hot water by special bamboo halo before the formation of air uniform foam. As a result is obtained the sweetish- bitter beverage, which in Japan it is customary to assume godly. Specifically, this thick tea is prepared during the tea ceremony, they will bring to the altar in the Buddhist and sintoistskikh temples.

The previous record of mass tea drinking was established during May 2005 in THE USA, when 7 250 people were gathered for this.

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