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The "living fossil" of Chinese coffee

Published: 2026-06-27 Author: World Gafei

Last Updated: 2026/06/27, In early May, the reporter accompanied more than 60 domestic and foreign experts and scholars to Zhukula Village, Pingchuan Town, Binchuan County, to investigate one of the birthplaces of Chinese coffee and the only model of Zhukula Coffee Forest that has been inherited for more than a hundred years. There are the purest and most primitive coffee beans in the world, which have high historical and scientific research value, and can be called the living fossils of Chinese coffee. As soon as I entered the village, I faced

In early May, the reporter accompanied more than 60 domestic and foreign experts and scholars to Zhukula Village, Pingchuan Town, Binchuan County, to inspect the Zhukula Coffee Forest, one of the birthplaces of Chinese coffee and the only model of Chinese coffee culture that has been inherited for more than 100 years.

"there are the purest and most primitive coffee beans in the world, with high historical and scientific research value, and can be called the" living fossil "of Chinese coffee." As soon as he entered the village, in the face of the green coffee forest, Chen Dexin, secretary-general of Yunnan Fine Coffee Society, sighed.

Mr. Chen Dexin went to Zhukula Village for the first time in 2009, and now he has been here nine times and has taken the initiative to become an interpreter. In 1904, French Catholic priest Tian Deneng obtained a coffee seedling brought to China by his colleagues from the old streets of Vietnam through the estuary, which was planted behind the Catholic church in Zhukula village, which inadvertently created a "legend" of Chinese coffee. There are 1134 ancient coffee forests in 13 mu in the village, of which 24 were planted between 1908 and 1912 and 1110 in 1948. Experts believe that Yunnan small grain coffee is the oldest tin pickup and bourbon variety, which is already very rare in China and can be called a "priceless treasure". Instant Coffee

The Catholic church built that year has mottled walls and empty buildings. In the 100-year-old coffee forest, the family members continue to grow. Binchuan County has established a project to protect the historical site of Zhukula Coffee for one hundred years of China's important agricultural cultural heritage, which will create a unique brand of coffee ecological agricultural tourism in the protection and development.

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