Coffee Culture Common sense Chinese Coffee Culture

Coffee was not introduced into China for a long time. It was not until 1884 that coffee was successfully planted for the first time in Taiwan Province of China. In mainland China, the earliest coffee cultivation began in Yunnan. At the beginning of the 20th century, French missionaries brought the first batch of coffee seedlings to Binchuan County in Yunnan Province, and coffee cultivation in mainland China began.

In terms of natural conditions, many areas of our country are very close to Latin America, South America, India, Indonesia and other places, and have inherent conditions for coffee cultivation. However, Chinese people have a history of drinking tea for thousands of years. As the origin of tea in the world, people more or less ignore or despise coffee, a foreign beverage, in terms of consumption habits and concepts. For a long time after coffee was introduced into China, Coffee cultivation has not received enough attention from people and has developed extremely slowly.

Until recent years, with the impact of foreign culture and the change of lifestyle, coffee has entered the lives of ordinary Chinese people more, and coffee cultivation has gradually developed in China.

At present, Yunnan, Hainan, Guangxi, Guangdong and other provinces in China have a considerable area of coffee planting base, some of the world's famous coffee companies such as Nestle have set up branches in China, they not only sell coffee products to China, but also purchase coffee beans from China's coffee planting base, not only promote China's coffee sales, but also promote the development of coffee planting industry.

For Chinese, for a long time,"coffee" and "instant coffee" were interchangeable terms. It wasn't until Starbucks in the United States and tea houses in Hong Kong that people began to realize that coffee wasn't instant coffee, but something else. What is it? It's fashion (microblogging). It is abstract painting, jazz music and aggressive coffee fragrance in Starbucks; it is a drink mixed with Chinese and Western tastes such as "mandarin duck" in tea restaurant, which is served in exquisite white porcelain dish and served by waiter. The former, because it is more exotic and fashionable, has become another synonym for coffee after "instant coffee".