The spread and Chronicle of Coffee

Coffee cultivation began in the 15th century. For hundreds of years, Yemen in the Arabian Peninsula is the only coffee producer in the world, and the market demand for coffee is very strong. In the Yemeni port of Moka, when coffee is shipped out, it often needs to be protected by heavy troops. At the same time, Yemen has also taken various measures to prevent coffee saplings from being taken out of the country.

Despite many restrictions, Muslim pilgrims on the pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca secretly brought coffee saplings back to their hometown, so coffee soon took root in India.

At that time, in Venice, Italy, countless merchant ships traded perfumes, tea and textiles with Arab merchants. In this way, coffee spread to a wide area of Europe through Venice. Many European businessmen have become accustomed to drinking coffee. Later, small vendors peddling coffee appeared on the streets of many European cities, and coffee gained rapid popularity in Europe.

The strong demand for coffee has laid a solid foundation for the rapid expansion of coffee in areas other than its origin. In the 17th century, the Dutch introduced coffee to their colony of Indonesia. At the same time, the French began to grow coffee in Africa. Today, coffee has become the second largest trading product on the earth after oil!

At present, coffee has become an indispensable drink in our lives. How on earth did coffee, quietly grown in the depths of the quiet forest, be discovered and widely accepted by people all over the world? And how did it start to grow? Among the countless legends of coffee discoveries, there are two legends that people are most interested in talking about, namely, the Story of the Shepherd and the Arab Monk.

In the 16th century, there was a shepherd in Ethiopia who found his sheep suddenly bouncing there. He thought it was very incredible. After careful observation, he realized that the sheep had eaten a kind of red fruit.

So he took the fruit and distributed it to the monks in the monastery, and all of them felt refreshed after eating it; it is said that since then the fruit has been used as a pick-me-up medicine and has been well received by doctors.

In 1258, Shek Omar, the chief expelled by his people for crime, was too hungry and tired to walk any more when he wandered to Vasaba (in Arabia), far from his hometown of Mocha. When he sat on the root of a tree to rest, he found a bird coming and perched on the branch, singing in a melodious voice he had never heard before.

He looked carefully and found that the bird opened its throat and made a wonderful cry after pecking at the fruit on the branch, so he picked all the fruit in the area and boiled it with water. After that, he began to exude a strong fragrance. After a sip, he not only felt good, but also felt tired physically and mentally. So he picked many of these magical fruits and brought them soup to drink when he met with patients. finally, because of his good deeds everywhere, the people of his hometown forgave him his sins, let him go back to Mocha, and respected him as a "saint".

All historians seem to agree that the birthplace of coffee is the Ethiopian Kaffa, while the name coffee derives from the Arabic word "Qahwah", which means plant drink.

Later, coffee spread all over the world and was named after its place of origin, "Kaffa". It was not officially named "coffee" until the 18th century.

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