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Published: 2026-08-23 Author: World Gafei

Last Updated: 2026/08/23, Deep in the mountains northeast of Hirakawa town in Binchuan, there is a place called Zhu Kula, which is a little-known Yi shanzhai. Due to the inconvenient transportation, Zhu Kula is almost isolated from the world. The villagers went to the market to buy a pig to carry back to raise, but there was no way to sell it when they were raised. During the Cultural Revolution, a young revolutionary came here. Seeing the winding and steep mountain road here, they had to write on the stone wall.

Deep in the mountains northeast of Hirakawa town in Binchuan, there is a place called Zhu Kula, which is a little-known Yi shanzhai. Due to the inconvenient transportation, Zhu Kula is almost isolated from the world. The villagers went to the market to buy a little pig to go back to raise, but there was no way to sell it when they were raised. During the Cultural Revolution, a young revolutionary general came here and saw the tortuous and steep mountain road here. He had to write on the stone wall the words "this is the end of the revolution".

But it is such a poor and backward village.

Who would have thought it had 24 coffee trees more than 100 years old, which refreshed the history of coffee planting in China and was called the "living fossil" of Chinese coffee.

Who would have thought that more than a hundred years ago, a poor man enslaved by landlord bullies in such a remote mountain gully would have the courage to go out of the mountains and find foreigners to do justice?

Who would have thought that a foreigner would come to such a place to build a church, preach and plant coffee trees.

Over time, the local villagers also planted coffee trees with Father Tian, and drinking coffee has also become a living habit of the local minorities. When drinking it, they put a little granulated sugar, which is sweet in bitterness, which not only quenches their thirst but also refreshes their spirits. It brings a little glimmer to the poor life.

When Yi aristocrats in the depths of the mountains picked up enamel jars to grind coffee by hand, in a place called overseas Chinese Farm on the edge of Binchuan County, there was an overseas Chinese who returned to China from Vietnam. Brought some coffee seeds and something called a filter pot.

The Chinese word "break" and the word "Yin and Yang" in the Book of changes are really the same. If you don't break, you can't stand. New things always come from contradictions and conflicts. The struggle between the rich and the poor of Zhu Kula brought Father Tian and Zhu Kula's first coffee tree. The second team coffee that became popular in Binchuan came from ethnic conflicts and wars.

In 1979, the self-defense war on the Sino-Vietnamese border began, and the road for Vietnamese overseas Chinese to return home was extremely difficult. "carrying pots and rice, adults dragged children from the interior of Vietnam to the Sino-Vietnamese border, houses, real estate, mountains and forests." None of them. "

In order to properly arrange the returned overseas Chinese, the state has set up overseas Chinese farms. after settling in the overseas Chinese farm in Binchuan, most of the returned overseas Chinese still retain the language and living habits of their places of origin and countries of residence. They have brought a lot of fresh ideas and culture to local residents, and one of them made the Binchuan people fall in love with drinks such as Vietnamese coffee.

Yes, Mr. and Mrs. Xian Jinhua, returned overseas Chinese from Vietnam. In 1985, the couple opened a breakfast grocery store at the then Taihe overseas Chinese Farm. After returning to China, Xian Jinhua still kept the habit of drinking coffee. Whenever he enjoyed it by himself in the store, he would pour some coffee to the guests who came to drink it. Slowly, everyone not only liked his breakfast, but also drank his Vietnamese coffee. Over time, the couple tried to sell coffee as breakfast, and there was an endless stream of people drinking it.

Later, two pairs of coffee slowly developed into a well-known old coffee shop, and Xian Lianyou, the youngest son of Sin Jinhua and his wife, changed the "second team" to "two pairs", meaning "drink the right coffee at the right time."

In his heart, the real taste of the second pair of coffee is the mellow taste of bitter fragrance.

Only in a peaceful and stable time, can you have the best mood to pick up this cup of coffee and slowly taste its true taste.

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