Coffee was introduced into Germany in 1670

Although German botanist Raul Wolf discussed coffee in the Middle East in his travels published in 1582, he was the first European writer to publish a book on coffee, but coffee did not spread to Germany until 1670, decades later than Italy, Britain, and France. In 1679, an Englishman opened Germany's first coffee shop in Hamburg and lit a fire. Leipzig, Stuttgart and Berlin followed suit, and coffee became popular.

In the middle of the 18th century, Frederick the Great of Germany began to offer anti-coffee measures to curb the spread of coffee fever, because the country paid more and more money to foreign bean merchants, affecting the income of the national treasury. Beer is a must-eat drink in Germany and is regarded as one of the quintessence of the country. However, around 175th ⊙, coffee gradually replaced the hot beer soup for breakfast, and the breakfast culture of hundreds of years was about to disappear. On the one hand, Frederick the Great invited the royal physician to do a lot of negative publicity, so that drinking too much would cause infertility to vilify coffee; on the other hand, he raised the tax on coffee and related utensils and roasted prices, so that ordinary people could not afford to drink coffee, thereby reducing the demand for coffee.

German musician Bach wrote the Coffee Oratorio in 1734, humorously singing how crazy the Germans were about coffee at that time, as well as the controversy about coffee. In the play, in order to dissuade his daughter from drinking coffee, the father does not allow his daughter to add new clothes or buy gold and silver jewelry, does not allow his daughter to attend a friend's wedding banquet, forbids her daughter to relax outdoors, and forbids her daughter to enjoy the scenery and passers-by on the balcony, but none of this can stop her daughter from drinking coffee. The daughter also repeatedly retorted, "as long as I have coffee, I don't care."... Not drinking three cups of coffee a day is like mutton on a grill, scorched and dry, and life is worse than death. Coffee is sweeter than a thousand kisses from a lover. If anyone wants to please me, please give me your coffee. " Finally, the father was so angry that he was not allowed to marry if he was disobedient, forcing his daughter to obey.

Unexpectedly, as virtue rises one foot vice rises ten's daughter, in order to retreat into progress, first promised her father that as long as she found a good husband for her, she would no longer drink coffee, and then forced her future husband to sign a marriage contract that allowed him to drink coffee before he was allowed to have a kiss of Fangze. Finally, she killed two birds with one stone, and the comedy ended. If you marry a good husband, you will have good coffee.

The last ten-day lines of Bach's Coffee Oratorio are like cats who don't give up catching mice. Ladies still love coffee, and their daughter's mother and even grandma also like to drink coffee. How can I do this by myself and forbid my daughter to drink coffee? " How popular coffee was in Germany in the 18th century!

In fact, Bach has a daughter who is also crazy about coffee, this oratorio happens to be a portrayal of Bach's mood.