Coffee is not only a fashion symbol.

Once upon a time, coffee, which was just a civilian drink in the western world, became an aristocratic drink when it came to China, perhaps a long way and expensive. Today, coffee has even become a "fashion" symbol, so that some people, in order to show the quality of life of fashion petty bourgeoisie, are young and light "old guns", claiming that one day without coffee can not return to the soul, is it such an exaggeration?

In fact, the value of coffee itself far exceeds today's "fashion" crown.

Coffee is a futures commodity which is second only to oil and can be bought and sold legally in the world market.

The largest consumer market for coffee in the world is Europe and the United States, which drinks 2 big 3 coffee beans in the world, and 1 big 3 coffee market in Asia. Japan, South Korea, India and China are the largest coffee consumption markets in Asia, while Hong Kong is the largest coffee consumption market in China. According to a newspaper clipping at hand, Hong Kong people drink 100 90 million cups of coffee every year, which only refers to families, not coffee shops.

Just as gold is expensive and black coal is valuable, but miners live in poverty and hardship, coffee beans are grown in mountainous areas with relatively difficult natural conditions, and the coffee is delicious, but most of the farmers who grow coffee beans are farmers in developing countries. The largest coffee growing area in the world is Latin America, followed by Africa and Indonesia. In Latin America, for example, coffee accounts for 2% of its export earnings and 3%, creating jobs for as many as 25 million people.

Coffee is very similar to opium. It smells better than it tastes better.

The growing environment of coffee and poppy is also very similar.

Once saw a very moving documentary: farmers in a place in Mexico make a living by growing opium poppies. A group of anti-drug volunteers in the United States taught them to grow coffee and specially moved the factories that process coffee beans to the vicinity of their coffee garden. The day when coffee beans are harvested every year is designated as the birthday of the coffee garden. On the birthday, there will be a grand Party beside the coffee garden, and all the coffee farmers are invited to attend. In the camera, they hold exquisite fine porcelain coffee cups with rough hands, pleasantly enjoying the fruits of their labor! The volunteers thanked them one by one with coffee instead of wine, and paid attention to sending farmers who had feelings for coffee to the United States for training and promoting them to management.

Year after year, the volunteers not only do justice to heaven, but also make huge profits. By the time the coffee farmers were able to grow and take care of the coffee garden and factory, and completely changed their poppy-growing habits, the volunteers went back, making it one of Mexico's most famous coffee producers.

This is the most beautiful story I have ever heard about coffee.