The history of coffee culture explains the origin and development of coffee in detail.

The origin of coffee

The world's first coffee tree was found in the Horn of Africa. Local indigenous tribes often grind the fruit of coffee and knead it with animal fat to make many ball-shaped balls. These indigenous tribes use these coffee balls as precious food for soldiers who are about to go out to battle.

At that time, people did not understand what it was all about when coffee eaters showed hyperactivity-they did not know that it was caused by the irritation of coffee. Instead, people regarded it as a religious fanaticism shown by coffee eaters. I think this drink is so mysterious that it has become a special product for priests and doctors. So far, there are two main stories that reflect the process of coffee discovery.

According to one story, a sheep herdsman noticed that his sheep became extremely excited after eating the fruit of a wild coffee tree. Out of curiosity, he also tasted the coffee. After a taste, because of the role of coffee beans, he also began to dance like those banging goats. The scene that happened to the herdsmen was hit by a group of monks. As a result, whenever it was necessary to hold religious ceremonies at night, the monks boiled coffee beans into soup and drank them in this way to keep themselves awake.

Another story goes like this: a Muslim mendicant monk was driven into the desert by his enemies. In a state of insanity, he heard a sound prompting him to eat the coffee fruit around him. He put the coffee fruits in the water and wanted to soak them soft. because the coffee fruits were too hard, he did not succeed. As a last resort, he had to drink the water soaked in coffee beans. In the end, the mendicant monk survived by this means. When the mendicant monk walked out of the desert, he felt that he could survive and that the magical energy he was able to gain was the result of Allah's help. So he kept telling the story to others and introduced this method of preparing drinks to others.

The spread of coffee

Coffee cultivation began in the 15th century. For hundreds of years, Yemen in the Arabian Peninsula is the only coffee producer in the world, and the market demand for coffee is very strong. In the Yemeni port of Moka, when coffee is shipped out, it often needs to be protected by heavy troops. At the same time, Yemen has also taken various measures to prevent coffee saplings from being taken out of the country.

Despite many restrictions, Muslim pilgrims on the pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca secretly brought coffee saplings back to their hometown, so coffee soon took root in India.

At that time, in Venice, Italy, countless merchant ships traded perfumes, tea and textiles with Arab merchants. In this way, coffee spread to a wide area of Europe through Venice. Many European businessmen have become accustomed to drinking coffee. Later, small vendors peddling coffee appeared on the streets of many European cities, and coffee gained rapid popularity in Europe.

The strong demand for coffee has laid a solid foundation for the rapid expansion of coffee in areas other than its origin. In the 17th century, the Dutch introduced coffee to their colony of Indonesia. At the same time, the French began to grow coffee in Africa. Today, coffee has become the second largest trading product on the earth after oil!

At present, coffee has become an indispensable drink in our lives. How on earth did coffee, quietly grown in the depths of the quiet forest, be discovered and widely accepted by people all over the world? And how did it start to grow? Among the countless legends of coffee discoveries, there are two legends that people are most interested in talking about, namely, the Story of the Shepherd and the Arab Monk.

In the 16th century, there was a shepherd in Ethiopia who found his sheep suddenly bouncing there. He thought it was very incredible. After careful observation, he realized that the sheep had eaten a kind of red fruit.

So he took the fruit and distributed it to the monks in the monastery, and all of them felt refreshed after eating it; it is said that since then the fruit has been used as a pick-me-up medicine and has been well received by doctors.

In 1258, Shek Omar, the chief expelled by his people for crime, was too hungry and tired to walk any longer when he wandered to Vasaba (in Arabia), far from his hometown of Mocha. When he sat on the root of a tree to rest, he found a bird coming and stopping on the branch, singing in a melodious voice he had never heard before.

He looked carefully and found that the bird opened its throat and made a wonderful cry after pecking at the fruit on the branch, so he picked all the fruit in the area and boiled it with water. After that, he began to exude a strong fragrance. After a sip, he not only felt good, but also felt tired physically and mentally. So he picked many of these magical fruits and brought them soup to drink when he met with patients. finally, because of his good deeds everywhere, the people of his hometown forgave him his sins, let him go back to Mocha, and respected him as a "saint".

All historians seem to agree that the birthplace of coffee is the Ethiopian Kaffa, while the name coffee derives from the Arabic word "Qahwah", which means plant drink.

Later, coffee spread all over the world and was named after its place of origin, "Kaffa". It was not officially named "coffee" until the 18th century.

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