Coffee Culture-an introduction to the Source of the word Coffee

The coffee tree is an evergreen cotyledon plant native to Ethiopia and belongs to the Coffee genus of the Rubiaceae family in botany, with a height of up to 10 meters, while artificial growers are only two to four meters tall due to pruning. Coffee will probably seed in three to four years, and the yield will decrease after 20 to 25 years, but some coffee trees will still bear fruit after a hundred years of life. The branches of the coffee tree grow opposite and grow horizontally or drooping, while the leaves of the coffee tree are opposite on the short-diameter branches. The two main species are Arabica (Coffee Arabica) and Robasda (Coffee Robusta). The leaves of Arabica are about 15 centimeters long. The leaves of Robasda are long, soft oval or pointed, and the color is bright green. In ancient China, Shennong tasted all kinds of herbs, and recorded them one by one, so that later generations could have a systematic understanding of many plants. There is no such person as Shennong in the western world, let alone any written record, so there are different legends about the origin of coffee. Among them, the most common and popular story is the story of the shepherd.

In ancient times, Arabs first dried and boiled coffee beans and drank the juice as stomach medicine, thinking that it could help digestion. Later, it was found that coffee also had a refreshing effect, and because Muslims strictly prohibited drinking, coffee was used instead of alcoholic beverages as a refreshing drink. After the 15th century, Muslims who made pilgrimages to the holy land of Mecca brought coffee back to their places of residence, and coffee gradually spread to Egypt, Syria, Iran, Turkey and other countries. The entry of coffee into Europe should be attributed to the Ottoman Empire of Turkey at that time. Because the coffee-loving Ottoman army marched westward to Europe and was stationed there for several years, when the army finally withdrew, it left a large number of supplies, including coffee beans. People in Vienna and Paris were able to develop European coffee culture based on these coffee beans and the cooking experience gained from the Turks. The war was originally occupied and destroyed, but it unexpectedly brought about cultural exchange and even integration, which was unexpected by the rulers. Although coffee was found in the Middle East, coffee trees first originated in Africa, a region now belonging to Ethiopia, called Kaffa, from which coffee spread to Yemen, Arabian Peninsula and Egypt, where coffee developed rapidly and soon became popular in people's daily lives. By the 16th century, early merchants had sold coffee in Europe, thus introducing coffee as a new drink into Western customs and life. The vast majority of coffee exported to the European market comes from Alexandria and Smyrna, but with growing demand and high tariffs imposed by import and export ports, as well as increased knowledge of coffee planting, dealers and scientists are experimenting with transplanting coffee to other countries. The Dutch planted coffee trees in their overseas colonies (Batavia and Java), and the French in Martinique (in Latin America) in 1723, and then in the Antilles. Later, the British, Spaniards and Portuguese began to invade the tropical coffee-growing areas of Asia and America.