When did coffee become a drink in people's lives?

It is said that the origin of this plant can be traced back to millions of years ago, in fact, the real age when it was discovered can no longer be traced. According to legend, Coffee is a shepherd named Kaldi in the highlands of Ethiopia. When he discovered that his sheep had accidentally eaten the fruit of a plant, he became very lively and full of vitality, and then he discovered coffee. All historians seem to agree that the birthplace of coffee is the Kaffa region of Ethiopia.

But the first people to plan to grow and eat coffee were Arabs, and the name coffee is thought to come from the Arabic "Qahwah", which means plant drink. The earliest Arab way to eat coffee was to chew the whole fruit (Coffee Cherry) to absorb its juice. They then mixed the ground coffee beans with animal fat as a physical supplement for long trips, and it was not until about 1000 AD that the green coffee beans were boiled in boiling water to make an aromatic drink. Three centuries later, the Arabs began to bake and grind coffee beans. Because drinking was strictly forbidden in the Koran, Arabs consumed a lot of coffee, so religion was actually a big factor in the popularity of coffee in the Arab world.

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 doing business 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 has even become an unstoppable trend.

Starting from the first cup of mellow coffee, after two hundred years of time, in 1530, the world's first coffee shop was finally born in Damascus in the Middle East.

When coffee first arrived in Italy, conservative clerics called it "Satan's masterpiece" and suggested driving it out of Italy, so Pope Clemon VIII decided to taste it himself. When he took a sip of the devil's thick black serous from the warm cup, he could not help but say, "Let the coffee be washed into God's drink!"

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. By the end of the 13th century, Arabs had learned to dry raw coffee beans, bake them, mash them with a mortar and pestle, and boil them with water to get purer coffee.