Introduction to the spread and Development Prospect of Coffee in China

Spread and Development of Coffee in China

The history of the introduction of coffee into China is not long, and it was not until 1884 that coffee was first planted in Taiwan Province. In the mainland of the motherland, the earliest coffee cultivation began in Yunnan. At the beginning of the 20th century, French missionaries brought the first batch of coffee saplings to Binchuan County, Yunnan Province, and began to grow coffee in the mainland. Chinese people have been drinking tea for thousands of years. As the origin of tea in the world, people more or less ignore or despise coffee as a foreign beverage in their consumption habits and concepts. For quite a long time after coffee was introduced into China, the cultivation of coffee has not been paid enough attention by people, and the development is very slow.

In terms of natural conditions, many parts of China are very close to Latin America, South America, India, Indonesia and other places, with the congenital conditions of coffee cultivation, but the traditional culture and customs restrict the development of coffee in China. Until recent years, as more coffee has entered the lives of ordinary Chinese people, and with the impact of foreign culture and way of life, coffee cultivation has gradually developed in China. Now, there are considerable coffee planting bases in Yunnan, Hainan, Guangxi, Guangdong and other provinces in China, and some world-famous coffee companies, such as Maxwell, Nestl é, Colombia and so on, have set up branches in China. They not only sell coffee products to China, but also purchase coffee beans from coffee planting bases in China, which not only promote coffee sales in China, but also promote the development of coffee planting industry.

The emergence of operational cafes in China was probably at the end of the Qing Dynasty. According to Xu Ke, a man at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, "drinking coffee: there are coffee shops in Europe and the United States, just like teahouses in China." It is also available in Tianjin and Shanghai, and it is also imitated by the Chinese. Concurrently sell candy to drink. Xu Ke's book takes a lot of notes from the Qing Dynasty, and it can be inferred that the things mentioned appeared at the end of the Qing Dynasty. However, this book was published a little later than the China University Dictionary, so it is difficult to tell which book uses the word "coffee" first. However, the first to be printed in type is the Chinese Dictionary. It can be seen that coffee shops attached to cafes or hotels and guesthouses generally appeared in major cities in the Republic of China.

It is even more unclear when and where coffee was introduced in China and how it spread. The Chinese Encyclopedia Agricultural Volume Coffee Bar and the Chinese Agricultural Encyclopedia Agricultural Volume Coffee Bar all said that coffee was introduced to Taiwan Province of China in 1884, introduced to Hainan Province in 1908, and then introduced to Yunnan, Guangxi, Fujian and other places. However, there is no documentary evidence, no data source, and no argument or reference in the article. Therefore, it remains to be verified.

According to the clues provided by the author, I consulted the continuation of the Annals of Taiwan written by Yu Wenyi in the late Qianlong year of the Qing Dynasty, the General Chronicles of Taiwan compiled collectively in the reign of Emperor Guangxu, and the Tongzhi of Fujian compiled by Chen Shouqi and others in the late Qianlong year of the Qing Dynasty. Chen Changzhai wrote Guangdong Tongzhi, Xie Qikun supervised Guangxi Tongzhi in Qing Jiaqing year, and continued Yunnan Tongzhi manuscript by Wang Wenshao in Qing Guangxu year. I have carefully studied the "products" and "local suitability" parts of various prefectures and counties, but still haven't found any trace of planting and producing coffee.