Do you know where coffee originated? what is the history and development of coffee?

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Legend has it that around the middle of the 9th century, in Abyssinia, now Ethiopia, there lived a quiet shepherd named Cody. The goat he keeps is usually listless, but one day he comes back bouncing and excited. Cody was so curious about the goat's strange behavior that when the goat went out the next day, he followed him and found the goat nibbling on the red fruit on an evergreen shrub.

Cody tasted a few of them himself and soon felt very excited. Overjoyed, he ran around to spread the unexpected discovery when he met an elderly Muslim mullah (the Mullah is a respectful term for teachers, students and scholars in Islamic countries). The mullah is always dozing off when he prays, which bothers him a lot. Cody told him the secret of the red fruit. Since then, coffee has gradually become one of mankind's favorite pick-me-up drinks.

Obviously, the mullah was more scientific than the shepherd, and after many experiments with the fruit, he finally came up with a good way to turn the fruit into a fragrant and delicious drink.

When coffee was still a wild plant on the highlands of central Ethiopia, in the Arab country of Yemen on the other side of the Red Sea, its magical effect was discovered and became a popular local drink in just a few hundred years.

At first, coffee has been used as a magic medicine in Central Yemen and the Arabian Peninsula, limited to drinking on doctor's advice. However, its exciting characteristics make it impossible to be limited to medical use for a long time. Many people see it as a stimulant to stimulate the brain, while others think that coffee has the function of promoting religious hallucinations. As a result, cafes have sprung up in the center of the Islamic holy city of Mecca.

The fashion of running coffee houses spread northward and to Europe in the 17th century. According to relevant records, the first coffee shop in Europe opened in Venice, Italy, in 1645.

Arabs have always regarded the discovery of coffee as a treasure, so no one is allowed to take fertile coffee out of the country. All kinds of coffee must be dried or boiled. However, at the end of the 15 th century, a man named Baba. Indian Muslim pilgrims in Budan strapped seven coffee seeds to their bodies and smuggled them out of the Arabian Peninsula and planted them in a hideout near Chikama lagur in southern India. It is said that all the coffee in the world comes from these seven seeds.

There are two main types of coffee trees used for commercial mass production: one is Arabica coffee or coffea araboca, and the other is Congolese coffee or Robusta coffee (coffea robusta). The former originated from the Middle East, while the latter originated from the Congo. In comparison, the former produces coffee of good quality and is the most widely cultivated in the world, while the latter is more hardy and more tolerant of worse climatic conditions than the former. In addition, robusta coffee beans are mostly used in the production of instant coffee.

In Europe, it was the Dutch who first engaged in the coffee trade. They imported coffee seedlings from the coast of Malaba in southwestern India and shipped them to what was then called the colony of the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia.

In 1715, the Dutch coffee merchant who wanted to be courteous to King Louis XIV of France, who was powerful and influential at that time, learned that he loved coffee, so he presented him with a coffee seedling. Since then, millions of coffee trees, including those from Central and South America, have benefited from this sapling.

In 1720, the first coffee seedlings arrived on the French Caribbean island of Martinique. Thanks to France from Gabriel. Mathieu. De. The unremitting efforts of Sir Chevalier Gabriel Mathieu de Clieu. Sir Crewe tried to persuade the French authorities to allow him to take away some branches of coffee trees that could be sown, but was refused. Out of desperation, he stole the branches and sailed to the French colonies in the Caribbean, which enabled the coffee trees to be planted in Martinique. But on the way to Martinique, the coffee seedlings he brought with him went through several twists and turns and were nearly destroyed. First it was attacked by pirates, then the sailboat could not sail because there was no wind, and then there was a lack of water. Except for one seedling who barely survived, all died because of lack of water. For a period of time after that, the slender and frail seedling relied on virtue. Sir Crewe shared what little fresh water he had and finally reached his destination, Martinique, safe and sound.

Soon after it was planted, this surviving coffee seedling was like a fish in water and grew luxuriantly. Fifty years later, there are more than 20 million coffees on Martinique and nearby islands. Unfortunately, de. Sir Crewe failed to see the coffee harvest with his own eyes. It is gratifying that after his death, his statue was enshrined in the shrine of French great men and was respected by people for generations. Next to him was Antoine, the first to bring potatoes to France. Pamantier.

In 1730, the British introduced coffee to Jamaica, the now famous hometown of Blue Mountain mixed coffee. In the 1880s, when British planters started the coffee industry in Kenya, there was an interesting phenomenon: after a century and a half of ups and downs, coffee, a precious and gorgeous flower, returned to its birthplace after a long circle. .

At the same time, the French continue to promote coffee eastward to Vietnam. In 1896, coffee was also grown in Queensland, Australia, and the tree species came from Robusta coffee, which grew in Brazil. As a result, Brazil became the world's largest coffee producer.

In the 1820s, the then Brazilian emperor was bent on making his country a member of the thriving coffee world. So he sent special envoy Tang. Francesco. De. Myra. Don Francisco de mehla Palheta went to French Guiana to ask for coffee, but like the Arabs and Dutch in the past, the French were extremely stingy.

Although the gentle and handsome Tang failed to negotiate with local government officials, he managed to convince the governor's wife for the honor of his country. The governor's wife gave Tang some coffee trees and twigs hidden in a bouquet of flowers. Brazil's huge coffee empire grew on this basis. It is appropriate to end the history of coffee as a charming bean with this concise story.

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