How many legends are there about the origin of coffee?

Apart from the two legends that people like to talk about, it is impossible to tell when coffee will become a drink in people's lives. But according to ancient Arabic texts, in the 11th century, Muslim precepts forbade believers to drink, and it was popular in the Arab region to boil sun-dried coffee beans into soup and use them as stomach medicine. The believers found that the coffee juice had a refreshing effect, so they used it as an inspiring drink instead of alcohol, and spread the drink through believers to and from Arabia to Egypt, centering on Mecca, the Muslim holy land. And then to Syria, Iran, Turkey and other places. After the 13th century, Arabs knew how to dry raw coffee beans, bake them, mash them with a mortar and pestle, and then boil them with water to get purer coffee.

As for shops that sell coffee, it is said that it began in Mecca, a Muslim shrine. Around the 17th century, coffee gradually became popular in Italy, India, England, and other places through trade routes. Around 1650, Oxford, England appeared the first coffee shop in Western Europe filled with the smell of coffee all day long. Although coffee was found in the Middle East, coffee trees originated in what is now Ethiopia in Africa, where coffee spread to Yemen, the Arabian Peninsula and Egypt, where coffee developed rapidly and soon became popular in people's daily lives. By the 16th century, early merchants had sold coffee in Europe, thus introducing coffee as a new drink into Western customs and life. Most of the coffee exported to the European market comes from Alexandria and Smyrna, but with the growing market demand, high tariffs imposed by import and export ports, and increased knowledge of coffee planting, this has led dealers and scientists to experiment with transplanting coffee to other countries. The Dutch planted coffee trees in their overseas colonies of Batavia and Java, and the French planted coffee trees in Martinique in 1723 and then in the Antilles; later the British, Spaniards and Portuguese began to invade tropical coffee-growing areas in Asia and America.

Coffee cultivation began in northern Brazil in 1727, but poor weather conditions gradually shifted the crop to other regions, first in Rio de Janeiro, and finally to Sao Paulo and Minas (circa 1800-1850). Here coffee found its ideal growing environment. Coffee cultivation grew here until it became Brazil's most important source of economy.

It was between 1740 and 1850 that coffee cultivation reached its highest popularity in Central and South America. Although coffee was born in Africa, cultivation and household consumption were introduced relatively recently. In fact, it was the Europeans who brought coffee back to its homeland and introduced it into their colonies, where it flourished because of favorable land and climatic conditions.