Chinese coffee culture

The history of the introduction of coffee into China is not long, and it was not until 1884 that coffee was first planted in Taiwan Province. In the mainland of the motherland, the earliest coffee cultivation began in Yunnan. At the beginning of the 20th century, French missionaries brought the first batch of coffee saplings to Binchuan County, Yunnan Province, and began to grow coffee in the mainland.

In terms of natural conditions, many parts of China are very close to Latin America, South America, India, Indonesia and other places, with congenital conditions for coffee cultivation, but Chinese people have been drinking tea for thousands of years. As the origin of tea in the world, people more or less ignore or despise coffee as a foreign beverage in terms of consumption habits and concepts. For a long time after coffee was introduced into China, people did not pay enough attention to the cultivation of coffee, and the development was extremely slow.

In recent years, with the impact of foreign culture and the change of life style, coffee has entered the lives of ordinary Chinese people more and more, and coffee cultivation has gradually developed in China.

Now, there are considerable coffee planting bases in Yunnan, Hainan, Guangxi, Guangdong and other provinces in China. Some world-famous coffee companies, such as Nestle, have set up branches in China. They not only sell coffee products to China, but also purchase coffee beans from coffee planting bases in China, which not only promotes coffee sales in China, but also promotes the development of coffee planting industry.

For Chinese people, for a long time, "coffee" and "instant coffee" are two interchangeable terms. Until the entry of Starbucks in the United States and teahouses in Hong Kong, people began to realize that coffee was not instant coffee, but something else. What is it? It's fashion (Weibo). It is the abstract painting, jazz and aggressive coffee flavor of Starbucks; it is a half-tea and half-coffee drink in a teahouse, such as "Yuanyang". Served in exquisite white porcelain plates, it is served with dishes by the waiter. The former, because it is more exotic and fashionable, has become another term for coffee after "instant coffee".