The characteristics of Western Coffee Culture

Like the tea culture in China, coffee culture also contains rich history and connotation. The Arabs first dried and boiled the coffee beans and drank the juice as a stomach medicine, thinking that it could help digestion. It was later found that coffee also had a refreshing effect. Because Islam forbids religious people to drink alcohol, coffee is used instead of alcoholic beverages as a refreshing drink. After the 15th century, Muslims who made pilgrimages to the holy land of Mecca brought coffee back to their places of residence, and coffee gradually spread to Egypt, Syria, Iran and Turkey. Coffee entered the European continent thanks to Turkey's Ottoman Empire. As the coffee-loving Ottoman army marched westward to the European continent and stationed there for several years, the army finally withdrew, leaving behind a large number of supplies, including coffee beans. People in Vienna and Paris developed European coffee culture with these coffee beans and cooking experience gained from the Turks.

Generally speaking, the characteristics of western coffee culture are passionate, unrestrained and free, concise and casual, fast and convenient. Romantic French coffee culture is an elegant charm, romance, and a sense of comfort to enjoy life. This is also a traditional and unique coffee culture. Coffee is not just a drink for them, it contains rich cultural connotations. Cafes all over cities and villages are a symbol of the French way of life. The French do not seem to pay attention to the taste of coffee, but the environment and sentiment. They are willing to buy a small cup of coffee at the price of a pot in the bustling market outside, taste it slowly, taste it carefully, read books and newspapers, and talk about it. A "bubble" is most of the day. There are no taboos in American coffee culture. When Americans drink coffee, it is like playing a game without rules. Americans are dismissive of Europeans' exquisite coffee making. Americans drink coffee freely, and coffee goes deep into their lives at the same time. Americans can't do without coffee almost 24 hours a day. As a result, the United States is the largest coffee consumer in the world. Generally speaking, Americans live a busy and stressful life. They often have a large pot of electrothermal filtered coffee, which they drink from morning till night. Because there is too much water and less coffee, the taste is particularly weak. Therefore, many people criticize that American coffee is really bad. The United States is the largest exporter of instant coffee, but not many people drink instant coffee in the United States.

There are two things worthy of tourists' attention in ebullient Italy, namely, men and coffee. There is a famous saying in Italy: men should be like good coffee, strong and enthusiastic! The characteristic of Italian coffee is that it is a fast word in its English name; it can be cooked no more than ten seconds and drank quickly, because there are only two or three mouthfuls. Most Italians make a cup of coffee as soon as they get up, almost from morning to night for both men and women. In order to match the special function of the Italian coffee pot to extract coffee instantly, Italian coffee beans are the longest-fried beans in the world.

People in central and northern Europe are not as enthusiastic as the Italians or as romantic as the French. They drink rationally and gently, just like their organized nationality. From Austria, Switzerland, Germany, and even several Nordic countries, coffee tasting habits and taste can be said to be more or less the same, the taste belongs to medium concentration. They usually make coffee at home, and most of them use simple electric coffee pots for home use. In recent years, the average coffee consumption of the people of the four Nordic countries has been among the top four in the world.

According to historical records, coffee was first successfully planted in Taiwan in 1884. In the tenth year of Guang Xu in the Qing Dynasty (AD 1884), a British tea merchant found that the climate of Taiwan was very similar to that of Central and South America and thought it was a good place to grow coffee. As a result, this businessman introduced 100 Arabian coffee trees to be planted in Taiwan and became the "ancestor" of Chinese coffee, which opened the prelude to the development of coffee in China. The earliest coffee cultivation in mainland China began in Yunnan. At the beginning of the 20th century, a French missionary brought the first coffee seedlings to Binchuan County, Yunnan Province. Today, coffee trees introduced more than a hundred years ago are still planted in Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Taiwan and Xiamen in Fujian, that is, the so-called "Chinesecoffee". In the following nearly a hundred years, coffee was only "dotted" in the vast territory of China.

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