How did coffee enter the Chinese market?

Coffee is said to have begun in the early 11 th century and can be found in ancient Arabic documents. Before that, coffee beans in the Arab region were dried and boiled as stomach medicine, and later learned that coffee also had a refreshing effect, coupled with the strict prohibition of alcohol by Muslim precepts. Muslims use roasted juice instead of alcohol as an exciting drink. It is said that the local people knew how to roast coffee beans after the 13 th century.

This black drink, which is equivalent to the predecessor of coffee, centered on the Muslim holy land of Mecca, spread through Muslims, first from Arabia to Egypt, and then to Syria, Iran, Turkey and other countries. At that time, the raw beans were dried, then baked, smashed with a pestle, boiled with water, waited for the residue to precipitate, and drank only the transparent part of the upper layer. In the 16th century, coffee was gradually introduced into Europe through Venice and the port of Marseilles in the name of Arabian wine. The custom of drinking coffee in Europe was gradually spread by Italian Venice merchants in the 17th century, and Bottega del Caffe, the first coffee shop in Europe, appeared in Venice.

Over the past 400 years, the drinking habit of coffee has not only spread from the West to the East, but even become an unstoppable fashion. At the beginning of the sixteenth century, coffee spread to Europe. King Clement VIII of France at that time said: "although it is the devil's drink, it is delicious." It is a pity that this kind of drink is only monopolized by pagans. Therefore, it is also accepted that Christians can also drink coffee. There were countless coffee houses in England, and only men could enter at that time. Coffee is very popular in gentlemen's social places. Men talk about politics, literature, business and other issues here, and some of them don't even go home. So in 1674 many housewives petitioned to close the coffee shop. After the Turkish ambassador offered coffee to Louis XIV in 1669, French upper-class society also enjoyed the charm of coffee. In countless coffee salons, new literature, philosophy and art have emerged. Coffee culture also deeply affected Parisians, and coffee shops on street corners began to produce in large quantities. During this period, countless thinkers and philosophers were born, such as Balzac Rousseau and so on. Intellectuals continue to gather and are famous for gathering in the intellectual coffee salon to talk. Soon ESPRESSO began to appear in Italian espresso, causing a change in the way coffee was consumed. Coffee is becoming more and more popular, so more and more people are interested in cultivating coffee.

In the thirteenth century, manufacturers brought coffee cherries everywhere and planted them. In the early 18th century, French Admiral de Crewe used his own drinking water on ships to irrigate coffee seedlings in buckets, and then planted them on the French island of Marchinique. Soon after, coffee spread to Central and South America, and coffee cultivation expanded to all parts of the world.

In the data, it is popular to drink coffee abroad and drink like tea, but it is only popular in our country in recent years. I don't know when coffee came into our country.