Hainan coffee bean Arabica or Robusta _ Hainan Xinglong Coffee Variety Origin Story

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When it comes to coffee, the now-famous Koufu has become a chain of coffee shop industry leaders. Who knows that the earliest known for Hainan coffee industry is Malaysia's second largest city, Johor Bahru. The first coffee shop opened in 1875. The birthplace of Hainan coffee came from Wanning, Hainan, and the earliest Brazilian coffee beans were brought back to Wanning for cultivation. Wanning people do not have a general term for Hainan coffee, the most famous is Xinglong and other overseas Chinese farms named coffee.

Xinglong Coffee is located in Xinglong Overseas Chinese Farm, Xinglong Overseas Chinese Tourism Economic Zone, Hainan Province. It was established in 1953. At that time, Xinglong Overseas Chinese Farm was just established. In order to realize the practice of "raising long by short term", that is, short-term crop income such as coffee, citronella and rice was used to make up for long-term crop income such as rubber, Xinglong returned overseas Chinese introduced coffee planting from overseas.

In Southeast Asia, there is such a jingle: "Chaozhou vermicelli Fujian noodles, Hainan coffee everyone biography." It is said that most coffee shops in Southeast Asia are run by Hainan people. In the 1950s, returned overseas Chinese from Southeast Asia not only brought the tradition of drinking coffee and the craft of making and brewing coffee to Xinglong, Hainan, but also produced Xinglong coffee, which was later famous.

After a long period of study, it was found that although the large seed of coffee (Liberian variety) has high yield, the quality and taste are poor; although the small seed (Arabica variety) tastes excellent, its growth environment is plateau climate, Xinglong altitude is very low, and the cultivation of small seed not only yields low, but also the tree life is not long. Finally, they began to plant medium-grain coffee (Robusta variety) as the most suitable variety for thriving cultivation. The altitude, latitude and climate of Xinglong provided a good guarantee for the settlement of medium-grain coffee.

Premier Zhou Enlai said after drinking: "Xinglong coffee is world-class, I have drunk a lot of foreign coffee, or our own kind of coffee to drink." In this way, the prime minister drank three cups in a row. When he planned to drink the fourth cup, he was dissuaded by his wife Deng Yingchao. After that, the relevant departments also specially sent a section chief of Shanghai Coffee Production Factory to Xinglong to learn the technology of roasting coffee. A cup of fragrant coffee, an amiable prime minister, wrote a good name for Xinglong Coffee.

Party and state leaders Zhu De, Zhou Enlai, Liu Shaoqi, Deng Xiaoping, Dong Biwu, Peng Zhen, Ye Jianying and so on have also come to Xinglong, gradually, Xinglong coffee has become an indispensable good to entertain guests. In addition to the central authorities, many foreign experts also praised Xinglong Coffee. At the beginning of 1959, an expert from the GDR visited Xinglong and said after tasting Xinglong coffee: "Your coffee tastes better than what we have drunk before. I hope you can grow it in large quantities." Hopefully in the near future coffee with the Hing Lung brand will be available in Germany." Unfortunately, until today, the German expert's good wishes have not been realized.

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