There is a legend about the origin and development of coffee drinking history.

No one knows when coffee was discovered, but there is a legend.

Once upon a time, goats grazing on the Ethiopian highlands in Africa suddenly became wildly noisy one day. The herder found it incredible. He finally suppressed the stray goats. After returning home, he discussed with the abbot of the monastery.

The next day, the shepherd and the monk went out together and carefully observed the movements of the goats. Soon, the goats began to show the same excitement as yesterday, but it seemed that they had eaten the fruit of the unknown mangrove next to them. I see! Both frowned at the fruit, their doubts resolved,

I feel very high too. It is said that the two men regarded it as a magical tree fruit and quietly drank it, which is a legend about the origin of Ethiopian coffee around the 6th century AD.

Others say so...

Legend has it that the earliest coffee trees in the world appeared around the 10th century in the hot mountains of Ethiopia. Kaldi, a wanderer far away from home in the dry season, suddenly found that the sheep became more active and noisy than usual after eating the fruits of a wild shrub. He curiously picked some fruits to taste and even wanted to dance on the grassland happily.

He distributed the fruits he had gathered to the monks who had come to the monastery to help them stay awake during evening prayers. Stories about magical fruits soon spread far and wide as nomadic peoples wandered. From then on, the crushed coffee fruit, mixed with animal fat into a hard block, as a snack to improve energy, became their journey after journey, lonely bumps in the nomadic life, a kind of addiction can not quit. Some even say that the earliest coffees, the coffee-skinned Ethiopian women, already knew how to brew from fermented coffee berries.

It seems that from the beginning, people have found the way to fly in coffee.

History of drinking

Coffee drinking is said to have started around the 10th century. Originally in Ethiopia, it was later popularized to Arabia, so it was regarded as a drink representing Muslim countries. Legend has it that the earliest coffee shops appeared in Mecca.

It is believed that the first cup of coffee in the world was carefully brewed by Arabs. Many oral accounts of European travelers at the end of the sixteenth century describe Arabs sipping black molasses boiled from blackened seeds, confirming that Arabs knew how to roast coffee with the marks of fire long before Europeans embraced coffee in the thirteenth century. Brand fragrance.

After 200 years, the world's first coffee house was finally born in Damascus in the Middle East in 1530.

In 1615, coffee arrived in Europe with the Venetian merchants who traveled. The French and Italians went crazy for it. They painted, wrote poems and even fought for it. As the Vienna proverb says,"Europeans can stop Turkish scimitars, but they cannot stop Turkish coffee." They burn fire just to make a good cup of coffee in the afterglow of the beacon fire.

Thus coffee naturally spread to the Middle East and caught the attention of Europeans. For example, during the Turkish War, Turkish troops who invaded Vienna abandoned bags of coffee beans and fled, recognizing the well-told story. But much earlier, probably from the seventeenth century, coffee became known throughout Italy, India and Britain via trade routes. In 1650, the earliest coffee shop in Western Europe appeared in Oxford, England.

When coffee first arrived in Italy, many conservative clerics called it "Satan's masterpiece" and suggested that it be expelled, so the then religious Clement VIII decided to taste it himself. After sipping a devilish black taste from his warm cup, he could not help but say,"Let coffee be baptized into God's drink!"』

To this day, in many people's minds, coffee still swings between the wings of angels and the fall of demons.

In 1654, Europe's first café appeared on the streets of Venice. Decades later, the release of fragrance coffee shop signs, one after another in London, Paris, Vienna hanging, in CoCo Chanel, Gianni Versace popular myth before the invasion of European window modification, coffee shop with a most unobtrusive attitude, quietly swept the world.

From then on, we entered the coffee house era. Buried deep in the memory of his father and brother, that period of coffee and literature mutually nurtured golden years, began.

Where does coffee come from?

The origin of the word coffee is thought to have come from a region of Ethiopia called Kaffa or Kefa, which sounds like "coffee." However, the early inhabitants of Kaffa called coffee djimmas (pronounced "jima"), and the Arab world did not use Kaffa to represent coffee, so this is most likely a Western phonetic paraphrase. Early Arabs called coffee choua, kauhi, or coffea. The Turks, after importing coffee from Arabia, changed the Middle Eastern term for good wine (qahwah) to Turkish pronunciation of qahveh. Later Europeans called coffee according to this pronunciation. Italians changed qahveh to cafe, while English speakers replaced a with a vowel o, resulting in today's coffee. According to historical records, the pinyin coffee first appeared in England in 1601.

The World's First Coffee House

The first coffee shop in the world was the Mecca Kaveh Kanes, which was not a cafe, but people soon gathered to play chess, chat, sing, dance in circles and drink coffee. It is said that Arabs never have a cup of coffee to themselves. Sun Yue's classic advertising words in Maxwell's advertisements--good things to share with good friends--have always been the most real scene in their lives.

To this day, don't be surprised if you stumble into a small coffee shop in an unknown Turkish town and receive a cup of warm coffee from a stranger sitting next door--because, in the Arab definition, it has always been synonymous with exchanging kindness and warmth.

The first coffee shop in Europe, Bottega del Caffe, opened in Venice.

Around 1700 there were 3,000 cafes in London, one for every 100 people.

The first cafe in Paris, Procope Cafe, opened in 1686.

Before the French Revolution, one day, an unremarkable officer appeared in Pugbo. After drinking coffee, perhaps he did not have enough money, so he had to take off his hat and mortgage it in the shop. This poor soldier who could not afford coffee was Napoleon, the French emperor who was later all-powerful.

In addition, the writer Rousseau, the poet Hugo, and the musician Chopin can occasionally be found in Pugbo.

The earliest coffee literature in the United States dates back to 1668. The first coffee house in Boston was the London Coffee House, which opened in 1691. The largest coffee shop in the world also appeared in Boston. It was established in 1808. Unexpectedly, this seven-story building was destroyed in a fire ten years later.

Spread of coffee

Coffee is said to have begun in the early 11th century, and records of this can be found in ancient Arabic texts.

Before that time, coffee beans were dried and boiled in Arabia and drunk as stomach medicine. Later, coffee was learned to have refreshing effects. In addition, Islam strictly prohibited drinking alcohol, so Muslims replaced alcohol with roasted juice as a stimulant drink. It is said that local people know how to use roasted coffee beans, which has been a matter of the 13th century.

This black beverage, which is equivalent to the predecessor of coffee, was spread by Muslims from Arabia to Egypt, then to Syria, Iran, Turkey and other countries with Mecca as the center.

At that time, the cooking method was to dry the raw beans first, then bake them, mash them with a pestle, boil them in water, and wait for the residue to settle. Only drink the transparent part of the upper layer.

And so coffee culture matured in Europe.

In the early 16th century coffee spread to Europe. King Clement VIII of France once said,"Although it is the devil's drink, it is delicious." It is a pity that this drink is only monopolized by pagans." Christians can also drink coffee.

There were countless coffeehouses in England, which only men could enter. Coffee is popular in gentlemen's social places. Men talk politics, literature, business, etc. here, and some don't even go home. So in 1674 many housewives petitioned for the café to be closed.

After the Turkish ambassador presented coffee to Louis XIV in 1669, French high society was deeply attracted by coffee. In countless coffee salons, new literature, philosophy and art have emerged.

Coffee culture also deeply influenced Paris citizens, corner coffee shops began to grow in large numbers. During this period, countless thinkers and philosophers were born, such as Balzac Russo and others. Literati congregate constantly and are known to congregate in intellectual coffee salons to talk.

Espresso soon began to appear in Italian espresso coffee, causing changes in coffee drinking patterns.

Coffee is becoming more and more popular, so more and more people are interested in cultivating coffee. In the thirteenth century, manufacturers brought coffee cherries everywhere and planted them. At the beginning of the 18th century, French Admiral de Crewe irrigated coffee seedlings in barrels on board his ship with his own drinking water, and then planted them on the French territory of Marchnik. Soon coffee spread to Central and South America, and coffee cultivation expanded to all parts of the world.

Coffee enters Asia

The Arabs failed to spread coffee in Asia, but the Dutch did! During their colonization, they planted coffee in Malabar, India, and brought coffee to Batavia, Java, Indonesia, in 1699. The Dutch colonies were once the main suppliers of coffee to Europe. Indonesia is currently the fourth largest coffee exporter in the world.

Coffee enters Europe

Venetian merchants first brought coffee to Europe in 1615. By 1683, Europe's first coffeehouse had opened in Venice, and the most famous were

Café Florentine, opened in 1720 in St Mark's Square, is still thriving. It is worth mentioning that London Roy, the world's largest insurer,

The German company started out as a coffee shop.

Coffee enters America

In 1668, coffee became a fashionable drink in South America, followed by coffee houses in New York, Philadelphia, Boston and other North American cities.

Beautiful cities appear. The Boston Tea Party of 1773 was planned in a coffeehouse called the Green Dragon. Today, the famous Wall Street financial district of New York

About the Stock Exchange and the Bank of New York both started in coffee houses.

Coffee was first cultivated in America in the 1820s, and it was the Dutch who first introduced coffee to Central and South America. Coffee is grown in Holland.

The land spread to Guyane française and Brazil, and later to Jamaica by the British. By 1925, coffee cultivation had become the dominant practice in Central and South America.

Tradition. That same year, coffee was grown in Hawaii, the only coffee producer in the United States, and Hawaiian coffee is one of the best in the world.

Coffee comes to China

According to historical records, coffee was first planted successfully in Taiwan in 1884, thus opening the prelude to the development of coffee in China.