When did humans start drinking coffee? Coffee legends you didn't know.

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Today, coffee has become an indispensable necessity for many people. According to statistics, in 2014, the global daily coffee consumption was 2 billion cups, with an annual output value of more than 100 billion US dollars. In most people's daily lives, exposure to caffeine has become commonplace.

The origin of the first cup of coffee

The earliest origin of this plant is in Ethiopia, East Africa. Although coffee is clearly a popular drink only in the last two or three hundred years, many historians and archaeologists have tried to stretch the history of coffee forward. For example, Anthony Welty, an American, thinks that the true identity of the good and evil tree of Eden in the Bible may be a coffee tree.

But there seems to be some truth in his reasons. Indeed, the lush vegetation and beautiful scenery of the Ethiopian highlands seem to be the scenery described in Genesis. In Enoch's Old Testament, it is described that good and evil trees "have pleasant fragrance and clusters of fruit", while the white flowers of wild coffee trees emit a strong fragrance similar to jasmine, and the coffee fruit changes from green to golden, and finally turns into crimson clusters of ripe fruit, which is dazzling against the soft and rich green leaves of the coffee tree, which may indeed tempt others to eat it.

Historians have collected many mysterious legends, which originated from the kingdom of the Queen of Sheba in Africa 500 years ago. according to written records, coffee was already a well-known plant in the first half of the 15th century. and people at that time drank coffee again. However, the Shepherd's "Katie Legend" is still recognized as the earliest coffee story.

Legend one

In the first coffee monograph "healthy drinks" (De Saluberrima potione) in 1671, the friar (Antonion Fausto Naironi) told the legend of Kaldi in Ethiopia.

One night, the shepherd Katie's sheep did not return to the pasture, so he went out to look for the sheep. It was later found that his sheep were excited, eating fruit beside the green bushes full of red fruit. The behavior of the sheep made Katie curious to taste the fruit and found that the fruit was very exciting. So start a long journey to Yemen at the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula.

Katie went to the monastery in the country and told the monk what he had discovered. "this time the devil is doing something wrong," a cleric said. They threw the red fruit into the fire, and soon there was a special aroma in the fire. they then collected the beans, ground them and poured them into a container full of hot water, and the world's first cup of coffee came out. This bitter dark drink allows the monks to concentrate on prayer. It spread among monasteries, and coffee began to be seen as a gift from heaven.

Legend two

The legend of Mohamed and coffee is relatively unknown. One day Mohamed felt tired and tired, so the archangel Gabriel came to help him and gave him a potion personally granted by Allah God. Mohamed felt refreshed after drinking it and went on with his great cause.

In this legend, the drink as deep as the Caba Holy Black Stone (Holy Black Stone of the Kaaba) is called gahwa, which means that the drink is derived from plants.

Legend three

According to Islamic folklore, Sheikh Omar (Sheikh Omar) was the first Arab to discover coffee and make coffee beans into drinks.

Omar, a doctor and clergyman, was once exiled to the desert of Azab with his followers for violating moral standards. Omar and his companions gathered wild berries from unknown bushes to stop their hunger. They boiled the fruit and drank the soup. It is said that they got the idea from a dream.

At that time, Omar had some patients who went to the desert with him in order to continue their treatment. These plants must be helpful to their illness. Until the exiles returned to their hometown of Mocha, they told others about this magical drink, which laid the beginning of the history and culture of coffee.

Is the origin of coffee really that storytelling?

In fact, it is not, it is just that people prefer such romantic statements, and these statements also make us more impressed, so that all kinds of legends have spread to this day, in fact, you know, sheep do not like coffee fruit at all.

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