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

Once upon a time, goats grazing on the highlands of Ethiopia in Africa suddenly got into a crazy uproar. The herdsman thought it was so incredible that he finally suppressed the fleeing goats and discussed with the abbot of the temple when he got home. The next day, the shepherd and the monk went out together to carefully observe the movements of the goats. Soon, the goat began to show the same excitement as yesterday, but it seemed to eat the fruit of the unknown mangrove next to him. I see! Both frowned and looked at the fruit, and their doubts were solved.

The mood is also very high. It is said that the two men regarded it as magical tree fruit and drank it quietly, which is a legend about the producing area of Ethiopian coffee in the 6th century AD.

Legend has it that the earliest coffee trees in the world appeared in the hot mountains of ── Ethiopia before and after the 10th century. Kaldi, a tramp far from home during the dry season, suddenly found that the sheep had become more active and noisier than usual after eating the fruit of a wild shrub. He curiously picked some fruit and wanted to dance on the prairie.

He distributed his harvest to the monks who went to the monastery to help them stay awake during evening prayers. The story of the magical fruit soon drifted away as the nomads wandered. From then on, the crushed coffee fruit was mixed with animal fat to form a hard lump as an energy-boosting snack, which became an addiction they could not quit during their lonely and bumpy nomadic life. Even, some people say that this group of earliest coffee people, ──, Ethiopian women with the color of coffee, already know how to make wine from fermented coffee fruits.

It seems that from the beginning, people have found a way to fly their hearts from coffee.

It is said that the habit of drinking coffee began before and after the 10th century. It was first spread to Ethiopia and later spread to Arabia, so it was regarded as a drink representing Muslim countries. Legend has it that the earliest coffee shop appeared in Mecca.

It is generally believed that the first cup of coffee in the world was carefully brewed by Arabs. In the oral literature of many European travelers at the end of the 16th century, Arabs sipped a kind of black molasses made from charred seeds, confirming that long before Europeans embraced coffee in the 13th century, Arabs knew how to bake coffee with hot marks. Imprinted fragrance.

In 1615, coffee was stationed in Europe with the traveling merchants of Venice, and the French and Italians suddenly went crazy. They painted, wrote poems, and even fought for it, just as the Viennese proverb said: "the Europeans can stop the machetes of Turkey, but not the coffee of Turkey. "they burn the flames of war just to make a good cup of coffee in the afterglow of the beacon.

In this way, coffee naturally spread to the vicinity of the Middle East and attracted the attention of Europeans. For example, during the Turkish War, the Turkish army who invaded Vienna gave up the bags of coffee beans and fled to identify the widely told story. But a longer time ago, around the 17th century, coffee became known in Italy, India and Britain through trade routes. In 1650, the earliest coffee shop in Western Europe appeared in Oxford, England.