One cup of coffee, one world.

The moment the sheep danced when they ate the coffee fruit, the aroma of the coffee conquered the human soul.

Coffee, as the first of the two largest drinks in the world, was once the second largest trading commodity in the world besides oil. Even now, coffee is still the fourth most valuable agricultural product in the world. Of course, it's much more than that. in addition to the knowledge of the commercial history of growing, making, sipping and coffee from books, we will suddenly find that it has taken us a long time to meet a cup of coffee. countless historical accidents have become historical necessity. What we hold in our hands is not only a cup of coffee, it not only gives continuous impetus to global business, but also changes human history and activities, revolution takes place, romance sparks, culture from conflict to fusion. The glory and dream of drinking coffee are subverting the world bit by bit.

In the 6th century, when the Ethiopians invaded and ruled Yemen for 50 years, coffee crossed the narrow Strait of Mande into Yemen and opened up coffee plantations.

In 1536, Ottoman Turkey conquered Yemen militarily, but coffee culturally conquered the Ottoman Empire, with street cafes in Constantinople.

In 1616, the Dutch, who dominated maritime trade, brought coffee to Europe.

In 1652, Pascal Rossi, an Italian, began a legendary era when he sold coffee to the public. London, Amsterdam, Paris, Vienna, Nuremberg, Regensburg, Prague, Hamburg, Leipzig, coffee houses sprang up like bamboo shoots after a spring rain.

The cafe led to the coffee craze in Paris and gave birth to the French Revolution. The legend of coffee continued, and after 1700, coffee and bread replaced beer and thick soup as sacred food for British workers, giving impetus to the industrial revolution.

In 19th-century Brazil, coffee freed all slaves and abolished the throne, but in the 1950s, President Vargas lost his life because of the collapse in soybean prices.

In the 1970s, the United States brought down the Amin regime in Uganda by relying on coffee without spending a bullet.

What impresses the world most about coffee is the culture. The origin, evolution and circulation history of coffee is actually a vivid history of social, economic and cultural evolution and human cultural exchanges. When drinking coffee has become a common hobby of civilians and aristocrats, the concept of hierarchy in their minds has really entered the time of disintegration. Cafes have become the best point of contact for people with rebellious mentality and revolutionary romantics. as power spreads coffee around the world, the spirit of freedom that spreads from cafes sprouts and grows, becoming "the blood of civil society". Little by little disintegrates the autocracy and power of the rulers.

The encounter between China and coffee is very interesting. In 1414, Zheng he's fleet of tea arrived in the port of Aden. The young Sufi religious leader Guaimaledin was drinking Chinese tea. He suddenly had a whimsical idea of processing coffee by processing tea and drinking coffee in the Chinese way of drinking tea. So he started the process of secularization of coffee. Can't you see that coffee utensils are still similar to Chinese tea sets today? According to historical records, coffee was first planted in Taiwan in 1884, which opened the prelude to the development of coffee in China. The earliest coffee cultivation in mainland China began in Yunnan. In 1902, a French missionary walked into a Yi mountain village called Zhu Kula in Dali and brought the first coffee sapling to mainland China. In 1905, the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway Bar became the first cafe in mainland China. Of course, the coffee culture was still formed in Shanghai in the 1820s. Outside the cafe was "the sound of sirens on the Huangpu River, neon lights flashing every night", while in the cafe, "suits and gowns and mandarin coats are shoulder to shoulder. The four vernacular languages are mottled with European and American languages."

A cup of coffee that changes the world makes people feel mixed. "left-handed Coffee, right-handed World" summed up this "coffee history": coffee invaded and changed the hillsides of the equator, and even caused devastating damage to the environment in some places. Coffee accelerated the slavery and destruction of indigenous peoples and Africans. Cafes have become a social gathering point, giving birth to new arts, institutions and revolutions, and coffee has awakened workers in Europe. Coffee, together with other commodities, gives birth to international trade and international futures. In Latin America, while coffee brings great wealth, it also breeds extreme poverty, leading to military dictatorship repression, rebellion and Holocaust. Today, coffee is still changing the world.