International Tea and Coffee Dialogue: When Tea Meets Coffee

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It is also stimulating taste buds, tea and coffee have their own loyal fans, when they meet, what kind of spark? On the afternoon of May 18, the first China International Tea Expo held an international tea coffee dialogue. When tea meets coffee, what we want to awaken is the taste of the whole world.

Do you prefer coffee or tea? When you need a pick-me-up, who will be the first choice? "when I come to China, I drink coffee in the morning and tea in the evening." Oscar Rueda, Colombian ambassador to China, told everyone about the country's coffee culture. Today, coffee has become a business card of Colombia. "our coffee cultural landscape has become a world intangible cultural heritage. Now, people not only come to Colombia for coffee, but also visit local coffee cultivation."

Mongolia has a long history of tea drinking culture. "the first thing my wife does when she gets up is to make milk tea. we welcome guests from afar, and we are sure to make tea." In Mongolia, dumplings and millet can also be boiled in milk tea, which is believed to replenish energy, said Pei Siergereng, Mongolia's minister of food, agriculture and light industry.

There is tea and coffee in China. "with every cup of coffee, we hope to inject a spirit into everyone." Xu Jiachun, representative of Starbucks Enterprise Management (China) Co., Ltd., said in the dialogue that China has become Starbucks' second largest market outside the United States, adhering to the principle of adapting measures to local conditions. Starbucks hopes to turn its stores everywhere into a third space besides home and workplace. At the same time, Starbucks has launched a coffee project in Yunnan, through training, hoping to create new ways to increase income for local farmers, and also hope to spread Yunnan coffee brands around the world through the unification and improvement of quality standards.

This is the significance of holding tea coffee dialogue at the Tea Expo. When coffee and tea meet, how can we be beautiful and share beauty with each other? "China's tea exports are mainly large quantities of tea, and famous green teas such as Xihu Longjing Tea are not well-known abroad." Hu Biru, general manager of Xihu Longjing Tea Zhenghao tea house, compares it with her own name, hoping that China's good tea, like Biyu, will start the product and culture together.

"Tea and coffee are very popular." Montgoman, a famous scholar, used the lotus as an analogy: "Coffee is a red lotus, tea is a white lotus, one is colorful, one is quiet, but they are all gifts from nature." Montman said that as its own "positive energy" products, tea and coffee contain a profound culture. What is more noteworthy is that both are changeable elves, never refuse to change, never stick to conventions, products, tastes and even cultural explanations are all moving forward, and tea and coffee are spiritual symbols of openness and tolerance.

"I don't think our publicity is enough to say that tea is not romantic." Liu Qinjin, a professor at Southwest Agricultural University, said that during his research in the university, he noticed that although the younger generation of consumers love coffee, their love for tea, especially black tea, is also increasing. "Coffee culture is very suitable for young people, but many of the romantic elements of these cultures have been absorbed by tea." He said that many college students not only drink tea, but also set up teahouses, tea studios, and organize tea art teams.