坐在中国传统式亭台楼阁环绕的花园里,一位先祖曾经参与东印度公司茶叶贸易的英国贵族人士,在回答电视记者为何英国人普遍要喝“下午茶”的问题时,幽默地说:“茶叶刚到英国时珍贵而稀有,人们不懂得喝法,便向茶商询问,茶商随口答道:‘中国都在下午四、五点喝的吧。’于是约定俗成。”然而又据说1840年,英国贝德福公爵的夫人安娜女 Sitting in the garden surrounded by traditional Chinese pavilions, an English aristocrat who had participated in the tea trade of East India Company by an ancestor, in answer to the question of why television reporters generally want to drink “afternoon tea”, said in a humorous way: “When tea came to Britain precious and rare, people did not know how to drink, and they asked the tea merchants that the tea merchants replied casually: ’China is drinking at four or five in the afternoon.” So it is agreed that in 1840 In ‧ the lady of the Duke of Bedford, England, Anna