The History of Coffee in Yunnan when did China begin to grow coffee beans

When did China start growing coffee beans?

During the Republic of China, the Catholic Church still sent Father Xu, Father Gu and Father Duan to Binchuan. These missionaries taught the villagers to read the Bible, set up a church primary school and brought basketball. The missionaries, though different, loved coffee, and they continued to grow and expand the coffee tree's territory.

But Zhukula's coffee is only for priests to drink, and local villagers, they like coffee with priests, until today, this remote southwest China countryside, home for guests to drink, is still coffee, they will cook in their own large iron pot roast, then grind coffee powder on the grinding stone mill, finally like Turkish coffee, wrapped in gauze in the teapot boil.

Zhugula's Yi name is "Ruokelai," perhaps its pronunciation is very similar to French (Chocolat, chocolate), so Tian Deneng gave it a French village name. China's first coffee, planted by two cultures inadvertently meeting, is just a small detail of China's pull into the world system in the turbulent 20th century.

This is how isolated villages become associated with coffee. The outside world, the coffee memories of Yunnan cities, is written in another way.

Just a year after Tian Deneng planted coffee, his French countrymen opened Yunnan's first coffee bar in Mengzi. In 1887, after the end of the Sino-French War, the Qing government signed a contract with France and was forced to open Yunnan Mengzi as a treaty port. It was the earliest treaty port in Yunnan and soon attracted foreign businessmen. Foreign companies from France, Britain, the United States, Japan, Italy, Germany and Greece landed here one after another, even including the famous American Mobil Company, British American Tobacco Company and Paris Department Store at that time.