The Origin of Yunnan small Coffee: a forest of careless beans in the birthplace of coffee in China

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Tian Deneng, a French missionary who planted the first coffee in Jukula.

113 years ago, a French missionary inadvertently introduced China's first coffee tree. It is incredible that the place for cultural exchange between China and the West, where coffee was first introduced and carried by coffee, is a Zhukula village whose name is "winding mountain road", and its name is "winding mountain road". It has been fragrant in this small mountain village between the deep mountains and valleys of Dali, Yunnan for more than a century. ■ Hong Kong Wen Wei Po reporter Ding Shuyong reporting from Binchuan, Yunnan

Zhukula Village is located in the northeast of Pingchuan Town, Binchuan County, Dali, in the depths of the mountains, surrounded by the Yupao River, a tributary of the Jinsha River. Yang Tiwu, a member of the staff stationed in the village, has the most say in the remoteness of Zhu Kula. it is not too much to describe it as "traffic basically depends on walking, communication basically depends on roar, and law and order basically depends on dogs." even if he entered the village three years ago, Yang Tiwu must ride a motorcycle from the county seat to the village committee and walk 7 kilometers of mountain road to enter.

This small mountain village in the deep mountain canyon has left a mysterious and ancient history of belief as a result of preaching, and because of a coffee seedling inadvertently planted by missionaries, it has given birth to the magical coffee custom in the deep valley, which has been performed for more than 110 years.

The offspring of the first tree introduced by French missionaries survive.

In 1904, Tian Deneng, a French Catholic missionary, went to Binchuan and nearby areas to preach. At that time, Zhang Yiqing, the "king of the Shunjiang River" in the Yupaojiang area, forcibly occupied the land and population, and the people were extremely indignant. The Yi people, Qi Ganwen, and others asked Tian Deneng to help with the lawsuit. After winning the lawsuit, Tian Deneng gained a lot of land and sowed the fire of Catholicism. The number of believers soon grew to hundreds, and the influence was widespread. Tian Deneng funded the construction of a Catholic church in the village of Zhukula and set up a church primary school for the sons of believers, where Western religious civilization and Chinese culture converge.

By 1949, except for a small number of areas such as Zhu Kula, other church primary schools were closed successively. Later, other missionaries and nuns were dismissed, and Catholic activities in Binchuan were terminated. The Jukula Catholic Church was accepted as a collective public house and no longer inhabited by believers and faculty.

What Father Tian Deneng did not expect was that a coffee sapling he had no intention of planting became the earliest coffee in China, and the coffee forest derived from it made Zhu Kula a "living fossil of Chinese coffee."

One day in 1904, Tian Deneng, a coffee lover, planted a coffee seedling from Bang Mei Shu in central Vietnam outside the back wall of the Chu Kula church. according to textual research, this is the first coffee tree introduced in China that does not produce coffee. From 1908 to 1912, 24 coffee trees survived; in 1948, the village head Li Fusheng mobilized the villagers to expand the cultivation of more than 80 mu of coffee, of which 67 mu were destroyed by the rare heavy snow at the end of 1983, and there were 1134 trees in 13 mu, which formed a coffee forest around Zhukula village.

Form the habit of drinking coffee and make it with a unique local method.

For more than a hundred years, the villagers have not formed the habit of praying and repentance every day, but drinking coffee every day has become a way of life. Whenever a guest comes to visit, serving a strong cup of coffee is also Zhu Kula's unusual way of treating guests. Yang Fucheng, who was met by a reporter from Hong Kong's Wen Wei Po at the entrance of Zhukula Village, although he is only 36 years old, has been drinking coffee for 30 years. He told reporters that drinking coffee in Zhukula is just a common thing, not about taste or elegance. Zhu Kula also uses an earth method to make coffee: pestle and mortar pestle and mortar, dustpan to dry, crushing and shelling, iron pot roasting, stone grinding into powder, and clay pot boiling.