Introduction to the earliest coffee growing areas in China

Introduction to the earliest coffee growing areas in China

Where does coffee come from? The most common theory is that coffee originated from the discovery of a shepherd in Ethiopia in the 6th century A.D., when he was grazing, he found that the sheep became excited after eating some red fruit, so he tasted some of it himself, and he felt refreshed. Then the Yemenis invented a way to boil the coffee beans in soup, and the fruit has spread since then. Today, coffee sales in the world are second only to oil in the list of major commodities sold.

When will coffee be introduced into China? It is known that at the beginning of the 20th century, French missionaries introduced coffee to Binchuan County, Yunnan Province for the first time. Because coffee trees are only suitable for growing in areas within the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Cancer, coffee is grown in only a small number of areas in China, such as Yunnan, Hainan and Taiwan. However, the small-grain coffee produced in Yunnan is of good quality and is very popular in the international market. At present, in China, "caffeine men and women", either at home or in the office, do not forget to hold a cup of fragrant and delicious coffee in their hands. It is a little fashionable and a little petty bourgeoisie history records that as early as 2000 BC, Ethiopian Ajiao people have already picked and grown coffee on the tropical highlands of Kafa province. The birthplace of modern coffee should be originated in ancient Arabia. According to legend, a little shepherd boy accidentally found that the sheep had eaten coffee beans and kept jumping. Out of curiosity, he also tasted a few, and he was really excited. Later, an Arab monk was inspired to make a "coffee bean meat soup", which unexpectedly sold well and caused a sensation in the market. It was not until someone fried the coffee beans, crushed them, boiled them with water and added sugar that they became a mellow drink. In 1615, the world's first coffee shop was established in the port of Venice in the Mediterranean. Thus leading the trend of modern coffee culture. Coffee was found in North Africa and Arabia, to its popularity in Europe in the Middle Ages, to its popularity in North America and Europe in modern times. So when did coffee enter Oriental China, a country with thousands of years of tea culture, in writing? It is impossible to verify when the finished coffee entered China, and the earliest coffee recorded in the history books was the planting of China's first coffee tree in Taiwan in 1884. In the tenth year of Guang Xu of the Qing Dynasty (AD 1884), a British tea merchant found that the climate of Taiwan was very similar to that of Central and South America.