Basic knowledge of Fine Coffee legends and cultivation of Coffee

At present, coffee as an elegant, fashionable, high-grade beverage has long been popular all over the world, and has been listed as the world's three major beverages (coffee, tea, cocoa) first, coffee cultivation also throughout the world's 76 countries and regions, only 1983-1984, the world's coffee production reached 5.5 million tons, exports of 4.2 million tons, of which known as the "coffee kingdom" known as South America Brazil's production and exports the most. However, the hometown of coffee is not Brazil, but Ethiopia in Africa. Up to now, there are large wild coffee forests in the dense jungle of Kafa Province in the southwest of the country. The word "coffee" comes from the place name "Kafa".

There are many legends about people discovering coffee. One legend is that in the 13th century, there was a prince in Ethiopia who discovered that his camels loved to eat small berries on a bush, and after eating them, they were extremely excited and energetic. So he picked some small berries to taste himself, and finally discovered this refreshing coffee drink. Another legend says that one day in 500 BC, an Ethiopian shepherd herded his sheep in a strange place. On a small hill, the sheep ate a small red fruit on a small tree. After returning in the evening, the sheep were abnormal in the fence. They were not as peaceful and docile as usual, but excited, restless, tearing and chirping, and even jumping all night long. The owner thought that the sheep had eaten some grass poisoning. He got up several times and lit the lamp to look closely, but he saw that the sheep were energetic and lively, not like poisoning pain. The next morning, the shepherd prepared to drive the sheep to another place to graze. After opening the fence, the sheep desperately ran to the hill with small red fruits. The shepherd did not help how to whip and stop them. When the shepherd was exhausted, he had to follow the sheep to the hill. Shepherd see each sheep scramble to eat small red fruit, feel very strange, then picked some small red fruit repeatedly chewing taste, found this small red fruit sweet with some bitterness. After grazing, the shepherd felt extremely excited and could not sleep all night. He even wanted to dance with the sheep's hands and feet. The magical effect of small red fruits soon spread, Ethiopian shepherds picked small red fruits everywhere, chewed them, and sold them in the market. Later, this small red fruit developed into the most popular coffee drink in the world today.

In fact, Arabs began growing coffee in 525 BC, and chewing roasted coffee beans became popular in Arabia. In 890 AD, Arab merchants sold coffee beans to Yemen, and Yemen made coffee beans into a beverage for the first time. In the 15th century, coffee was introduced into Europe, Asia, and soon into America. By the 18th century, coffee was widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions of the world and became one of the three major beverages in the world. Coffee ranks first among the top three beverages in annual sales, three times that of cocoa and four times that of tea. Coffee has been cultivated for more than 2000 years. However, coffee cultivation in China has only a few hundred years of experience. In 1884, coffee was introduced into Taiwan Province. At the beginning of the 20th century, overseas Chinese brought coffee back from Malaysia and planted it in Hainan Province. Later, the southern tropical and subtropical provinces began to plant coffee one after another. Although the cultivation time is relatively short, the coffee in Hainan Province and Yunnan Province of our country has superior quality and unique charm, and enjoys high reputation in the world. After some foreign businessmen buy it at a low price, it becomes a world-class beverage with expensive value after processing and selling it to the international market. The most prominent one is the small coffee planted in Yunnan Province. Because the temperature difference between day and night in Yunnan is large, it is conducive to the accumulation of its contents. Therefore, it tastes strong but not bitter, fragrant but not strong, rich in oil and fruity. Therefore, it has been praised by coffee merchants at home and abroad as "the best quality coffee in the world".

Coffee is a perennial evergreen small tree of Rubiaceae. It is a kind of horticultural perennial economic crop with the characteristics of fast-growing, high yield, high value and wide market. Coffee varieties are small, medium and large seeds of points, the former contains low caffeine content, aroma, the latter two high caffeine content, but some poor aroma. At present, the coffee sold in the world is generally prepared from small and medium seeds in different proportions, usually 70% of the medium seeds, mainly taking their caffeine; 30% of the small seeds, mainly taking their fragrance. Each coffee variety generally has a few to a dozen variants. Coffee is more tolerant to shade and cold, but it is not tolerant to light, drought and disease. Coffee contains caffeine, protein, crude fat, crude fiber and sucrose and other nine nutrients, as a beverage, it is not only mellow and delicious, slightly bitter sweet, but also exciting nerves, get rid of fatigue and other effects. Medically, caffeine can be used as an anesthetic, stimulant, diuretic and cardiac stimulant, as well as to aid digestion and promote metabolism. Coffee pulp is rich in sugar, which can be used to make sugar and alcohol. Coffee flower contains essential oil, can extract high-grade spices.