Coffee in China

▪ from the perspective of language, the Kangxi Dictionary has neither the word "coffee" nor the word "coffee", let alone the word "coffee". It can be seen that the Chinese did not come into contact with coffee in the early Qing Dynasty. It seems difficult to determine when and where foreigners come to China to brew and drink their own coffee in China. However, it is now known that during the Jiaqing period before the Opium War, foreigners who came to Guangzhou, the largest trading port in China at that time, were already making and drinking their own coffee. "there is wine in foreign countries. There is also black wine, and ghosts drink it after dinner, and this wine can be consumed. According to the Guangdong General Chronicles, black wine, drinking after meals and helping digestion, the so-called black wine should refer to coffee.

The planting of ▪ coffee tree in China first began in Taiwan, while the planting in mainland China was successfully introduced by a French missionary in Yunnan Province in 1892. After that, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan and other provinces also planted a small amount.

The emergence of operational cafes in ▪ China was probably at the end of the Qing Dynasty. According to Xu Ke, a man at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, "drinking coffee: there are coffee shops in Europe and the United States, just like teahouses in China." It is also available in Tianjin and Shanghai, and it is also imitated by the Chinese. Concurrently sell candy to drink. Xu Ke's book takes a lot of notes of the Qing Dynasty, which can be seen in the Republic of China, cafes or cafes attached to hotels and guesthouses have generally appeared in major cities.