Oriental drinks popular in the West: the Historical and Cultural significance of Coffee

As an "oriental drink", coffee is endowed with great western meaning. For hundreds of years, this mellow bitterness attracted all kinds of people, and therefore permeated all fields of modern western society, flowing like blood in the land of Europe for centuries. Today, it has become a typical representative of western culture, and once again returned to the eastern world. This is the beauty of the history of coffee development, but also the attraction of coffee culture. In addition, coffee has a group of great believers in history that can not be ignored. They have made great contributions to western culture, and their works can be called treasures in the history of human civilization. The publication of these works is inseparable from the company of cups of strong coffee: Balzac drank 50,000 cups of coffee all his life while writing "Human Comedy"; the Dutch post-impressionist painter Van Gogh was obsessed with the world staged in the cafe. Again and again he pushed open the door of the Algasa Cafe which was still open at night and recorded the scene in the cafe with a paintbrush. German musician Bach's coffee-themed cantata, also known as Coffee cantata (cantata: a genre of large vocal suites), achieves the perfect combination of coffee and music. Sartre, a famous philosopher, continued to write every day in Paris even when the air raid sirens sounded and the city was in chaos during World War II. There are many such examples. This group of people have a devotion to truth, a yearning for art and a pursuit of beauty. Coffee is not the reason for the publication of his works, but how important it is to them! After the 18th century, with the development of industrial society, the intensification of social differentiation and the refinement of social division of labor, cafes declined to varying degrees, and "egalitarianism on the seat" was gradually broken. Caf é s are also divided, with aristocrats and upper classes gathering in high-end cafes for entertainment. Simple and inexpensive forms of making and selling coffee have also been developed, most typically coffee bars and coffee stalls. However, as an important part of daily diet, the historical and cultural effect of coffee has not diminished. The most typical example is the role of coffee in promoting the industrial revolution. Warm and refreshing coffee was an important soothing and supportive product for workers in the industrial revolution. They live in poor conditions, work extremely long hours and have no time to prepare three meals. Coffee and bread become sacred food. Coffee has also changed from an aristocratic drink to a necessary refreshing agent for the working class, fostering a common understanding among workers.