The Chinese invented everything! Including coffee? The Origin, Development and Communication History of Coffee

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Before the beginning of the article, let's make it clear that the title is not what I said, but by a Frenchman, and it is also a hot topic recently.

On this point, whether coffee was invented by the Chinese remains to be discussed. And the discovery of coffee certainly has nothing to do with the Chinese people. However, the emergence of coffee cups is indeed inspired by the Chinese.

Recently, a coffee book written by a Frenchman mentioned that on his seventh voyage, Zheng he arrived in Aden, Yemen and the Arabian Peninsula, hoping to exchange local medicinal materials through Chinese porcelain. At the same time, in the process of exchange, it has promoted the spread of tea in Arab countries, especially in Yemen.

At that time, Muslims in China liked tea very much because it refreshed them and helped them pray for many hours at night, so when they came to the Arab region, it gradually led the local believers to drink tea.

But by the time Zheng he's team left, local tea stocks began to dry up. Yemeni and Ethiopians also found that tea could not be grown in Africa, so they began to look for another plant that could be dried and soaked to drink, and began to make an abacus about coffee leaves and other plants.

It is said (it is really said) that the first person who began to drink tea with coffee leaves was an Islamist named Jermaine. When Zheng he arrived in Yemen, he often visited Chinese believers and tasted the flavor of Chinese tea many times in church activities.

As he grew older, Jermaine became the leader of local Islam, making tea at every church event. Until the tea leaves were scarce, he began to dry the coffee leaves over the fire and then made the tea, called "Kati/Kotea". In terms of pronunciation, it is the combination of Arabian Gahwa (coffee) and Tea (tea). The tea made with fresh coffee leaves will be called "Amertassa".

And the reason why Germaine Latin uses coffee leaves, it is very likely that Germaine Latin is from Ethiopia. The Oromo people in Ethiopia had a habit of making coffee leaves and fat into small balls or cakes, as well as fresh coffee fruits, long before coffee fruits were widely used to refresh themselves.

Coffee fruit will also be boiled into juice "Bunchum", used to treat headaches, but drinking too much will make people unable to sleep, trance. Or Germaine Latin realized that coffee leaves had the same refreshing effect as tea, so he tried to use coffee leaves instead of tea.

Episode: with regard to the reason why coffee has spread to Arabia, some botanists believe that Arabs may take coffee leaves, fruits and even saplings with them during the capture of the Oromo people. So the coffee spread to neighboring Yemen and then, with the help of pilgrims, to Islamists and businessmen in the Arab region.

And various ways of eating leaves and fruits of coffee have gradually spread in the Arab region. However, the practice of coffee and tea has not become popular. On the contrary, the fruit of coffee has been understood by Arabs.

According to records, between 1400 and 1500, it was popular to drink a hot drink called "Cash Qishr" in the ports of Moka and Aden in Yemen. The ripe coffee berries are dried with only the pulp (kernels, that is, coffee beans will be discarded), then the pulp is roasted and mashed over a low heat, boiled in hot water with spices such as ginger and cinnamon, and drunk while it is hot.

The pulp still contains 1% caffeine, has a refreshing effect, and the flavor is far sweeter than chewing coffee fruit, a practice that quickly spread throughout the Arabian Peninsula. At that time, people would choose to throw away the core part, maybe when the coffee was still raw, it was too hard and bitter, so it was not loved.

It was not until about 1450 that some people began to find that as long as the core was roasted for a long time and cooked with the pulp, the hot drink would be more fragrant and refreshing. In order to distinguish it from "Cash Qishr", this hot drink, which boils the roasted coffee kernels together, is called "Kava Gahwa".

From the birth process of coffee, we can see that coffee is not invented by the Chinese, it is really the most likely factor that induces the emergence of coffee. The discovery of coffee is Ethiopian, the spread of coffee is Arab, the emergence of real coffee is also Arab.

After the emergence of Gahwa, it has become one of the indispensable drinks in religious ceremonies in the Arab region. Before the ceremony, believers will hand over a small bowl called "Madjur", and everyone will take a sip from the mouth of the bowl. The shape, size and pattern of these small coffee bowls are deeply influenced by Chinese porcelain tea sets.

Today, the small cups that Arabs use when drinking coffee is the evolution of "Madjur". But in styling, we can still see the figure of Chinese porcelain tea set.

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