Wiki Valley, a coffee-growing region of Papua New Guinea

New Guinea is a large mountainous island shared by Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. The island's alpine aborigines were not discovered until 1930 by Australia Mick Leahy, and they have retained their primitive civilization, making them a paradise for anthropological research.

It is especially amazing that the video taken by Mick when he first met the aborigines in the mountains has been preserved and later combined with interviews with local people to make a documentary reflecting the process of contact between highland aborigines and modern civilization. The title is "First Contact." After the film was released in 1983, it shocked the world and won numerous awards. Such images were unprecedented and unprecedented. They were truly unique. The story follows: Mick grew up with Joe, a native son of the tribe, and later received a Western education in a white school, becoming a middleman between the two cultures. He made a fortune growing coffee in the highlands. His attempts to expand coffee plantations were documented in two documentaries, along with First Contact and called The Highland Trilogy.

The laws of history always tell us that a heterogeneous new civilization must bring a period or a certain degree of loss and pain to the recipient. But things look worse in Papua New Guinea, where what is happening can only be described as chaotic and bloody. No one can say exactly why. Frequent violence, endless tribal feuds, lack of resources, lack of medicine... the old is dying, the new is not established. People there say they don't see hope for this country.

And women in Papua New Guinea are generally subjected to brutal domestic violence. In traditional culture, women have always been regarded as the private property of men, can be beaten and scolded at will; and after marriage, they do not live together and sleep with their wives at night. Although the introduction of modern civilization allowed couples there to learn to live together, they never learned how to get along. Besides, men idled and cared about appearance; women farmed and supported their families and bore all the burden. Some anthropologists believe the custom originated in imitation of the bird of paradise, a local specialty. Male birds have beautiful feathers, female birds are not beautiful, responsible for laying eggs)

The vast majority of coffee in Papua New Guinea is organic coffee, not intentionally by the locals, but because of the inconvenient transportation and economic difficulties, the average coffee farmer is determined not to buy it, nor can he afford fertilizer. "Bird of Paradise" this coffee flavor lively, with bright acid and fruit aroma, unlike the general Asian beans dull, but a little African beans mean. Therefore, although not a famous show, but deft to please people like. It comes from the mountains on the island, and birds of paradise sing on the coffee trees. Before, my knowledge and imagination were limited to this.

The more he understood, the heavier he felt. A cup of bird of paradise actually carries a cultural tragedy. Joe the coffee farmer ended up bankrupt because tribal conflicts caused a lot of casualties, and the coffee was ripe for picking. As a result, the coffee rotted in the ground and Joe went to a civilized place.

Coffee, there are so many stories waiting for us to learn, if you still have feelings for this troubled world.

Coffee must have temperature.