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The Story of Shepherd and the History of Coffee

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Legend has it that more than a thousand years ago, Kaidi, a shepherd living on the Ethiopian plateau, found that his sheep became so active and noisy after eating the red fruit of a shrub that they did not even sleep at night. And the red fruit of this shrub is our present-day coffee fruit (Coffee Cherry), which has been a prelude to the history of coffee ever since.

The shepherd Caldi later distributed the fruit he had picked to the monks in the monastery to help them stay awake during evening prayers. With regard to this strange pick-me-up fruit, people first ate it directly, and then after baking and grinding, they added flour to make bread as food for soldiers. Others say that as the nomads spread farther and farther away, they mixed crushed coffee beans with animal fat to make a portable snack to replenish energy at any time. It was not until around the 11th century that people began to drink coffee in water.

The history of coffee followed in the 13th century, when Ethiopian troops invaded Yemen, bringing coffee to the Arab world. At that time, because of the strict prohibition of alcohol in Islam, this brown or black liquid occupied the first place in social drinks, and through the trading between the merchants of Venice and the Dutch hegemony at sea in the 16th and 17th centuries, it blew the bugle of the heyday of European coffee history, making this "black gold" gradually welcomed by European aristocrats. And in the following era of great navigation, the aroma of coffee spread to all parts of the world.