absolutely unexpected! It turns out that the function of coffee cups and saucers is.

(Q is the question, An is the answer)

Q: what is the function of coffee cups and saucers? Aristocrat A: prevent the coffee from getting too hot and scalding the surface of the table. Ordinary person A: a spoon for stirring coffee. Exquisite person A: when picking up the coffee cup and tasting it, picking up the plate can be more elegant. Cantonese A: used to hold bones

Human beings have a long history of drinking coffee, the way of drinking coffee, the etiquette of drinking coffee, and the customs of different countries are different. If you ask Europeans, they may answer you: coffee plates are for drinking coffee. Yes, we read it correctly. Coffee is not drunk from a cup, but is poured into a plate and tasted by sipping. When you see here, some friends will ask: why don't you just drink the coffee in the cup / put the coffee in a plate, but pour it into a coffee cup and then taste it on a plate? Because the Europeans at that time not only wanted to be elegant, but also afraid of hot! Pour the cup is elegant, and then pour the plate is to cool down.

Photo: Louis Marin Bonnet painted "Coffee woman" before the 17th century, spoons, cups and plates in the West were rare items, and there would be no cups specially used for drinking coffee. Most European cafes are influenced by the way Turkish coffee is consumed. A large pot of coffee is made and then packed into bowls for guests to drink.

-scenes like the French movie Blue Betty, we can bring a little bit into the modern scene: how approachable the well-dressed workplace talent goes to the boutique coffee shop to drink coffee with a bowl! Another reason for reluctance to use a cup to drink coffee is that even if there is a cup, it is also used for heating, mainly made of tinplate, thermal conductivity bars, and very hot mouths. Until Zheng he's voyages to the West and brought Chinese porcelain to Europe, Europeans found that this material is too angelic! Although the thermal conductivity is also leveraged, but beautiful! It's not rusty! So he began to imitate Chinese teapots, teacups and teapots to create a cup and saucer set that can drink coffee elegantly. Although there are special coffee cups, but the price is expensive and the quantity is small, only aristocrats can use it, and civilians can only continue to use bowls to drink coffee.

-Picture: Jean É tienne Liotard but! Even if the cup is beautiful, the cup is hot to drink and the mouth is hot. Europeans who are afraid of hot say: soon, if you can't drink it, it won't be elegant! Or pour the dish to cool, and then sip it ~ so the practice of drinking coffee from a coffee plate began to appear. This practice soon spread to the people, and civilians began to imitate the aristocracy and began to drink coffee on plates. It was not until the middle of the 18th century that European porcelain makers got rid of the idea of "imitating the East" step by step. The coffee cup jumped out of the shape of the tea bowl, and the tea cup was also affected, gradually moving from the common shape such as bits to the cup shape with handle, that is, the mug we now know. The material is no longer limited to pure porcelain, and the price material is civilian, so more coffee cups begin to come into the lives of ordinary people.

But! Even with a cup with a handle, people seem to be used to drinking coffee on a plate, so we can still see from many paintings and photos that both aristocrats and civilians still drink coffee with a cup in their right hand and a plate in their left hand.

Photo: LOUIS MARIN BONNET painted "the woman drinking Coffee"

The story is over, let's take a look at the netizens' comments! I almost laughed the code clerk until I burst into tears!

So! Curious about the awakening of DNA, let the code clerk colleagues have a taste of this way of drinking coffee. Elegant ~ aristocratic ~ so hot!

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