The development of coffee beans and the history of the introduction of coffee beans into China

A magnificent epic of human civilization and culture for hundreds of years, coffee has been the most silent and gentle, but the most defenseless way, changing history and making history.

Legend has it that around the tenth century AD, on the Ethiopian plateau of Africa, a shepherd Carl found sheep excited after eating some kind of red fruit. As a result, Carl distributed this incredible red fruit to the locals, and its magical effect spread.

The red fruit on the coffee tree

There is also a legend that in 1258, in the mountains of Yemen, Shek Omar, who was deported by his people for crime, was exiled to Vasaba (in Arabia). When he was walking on the mountain exhausted, he found that the birds on the branches made a very sweet cry after pecking at the fruit of the tree. So he boiled the fruit with water, and after drinking it, the original feeling of tiredness was eliminated.

Later, Omar collected many of these magical fruits, and when he met someone who was sick, he made the fruit into soup for them to drink, and refreshed them. Because of his good deeds everywhere, his sins were soon forgiven. When he returned to Mocha, he was revered as a saint for finding this fruit. It is said that the magic cure at that time was coffee.

But the real evidence for the spread of coffee beans originated in Africa, as shown in the figure:

The introduction of China

Overseas Chinese in Indonesia drank coffee every day in the 1960s, and Taiwanese began to drink coffee in the 1970s. It has a history of about 40 years now. Whether Hong Kong introduced coffee earlier needs textual research. The mainland began to rise in the late 1990s. At present, many cafes have sprung up, young people have gradually accepted coffee drinks and there are a variety of places to drink coffee, including restaurants, cafes, dim sum, cake bakeries and so on.