Coffee History
Tina
15 Nov,2017
Westerners are familiar with coffee for three hundred years, but in the east, coffee has been used as a beverage in the society in the past. Coffee appears the earliest and most of the exact time is in the eighth century b.c., but as early as in Homer's work (a conflict with the Greek poet, birth year, the authority is born in 744 BC -) and many ancient Arab legend, describes a kind of magic, black color, taste bitter, and has the power to intense stimulation, drinks. Before and after the tenth century, Avicenna (Avicenna, 980-1037, the ancient one of the greatest master of the islamic world, as a philosopher, a doctor, theorists such as -) coffee is used as a drug to treat disease. There is a strange story originated in the 15th century, legend has it that a shepherd saw a sheep on the hills of yemen from a clump of bushes on the bit off color reddish berries, soon these goats became agitated, excited, the shepherd reported the matter to a monk (in the Middle East and the west old monk is knowledge of the upper classes -), the monk will cook some berries, and then refined a bitter taste, strong feet, can drive sleepy refreshing drinks and sleepiness.
Although coffee was discovered in the Middle East, the coffee tree originated in an area of Africa, called Kaffa, which has been introduced to yemen, the Arabian peninsula and Egypt. It was in Egypt that coffee was developing so rapidly that it quickly became popular in People's Daily lives.
By the 16th century, early merchants had sold coffee in Europe, and thus made coffee a new one
Style drinks introduce western customs and life. The vast majority of exports to the European market of coffee from Alexandria and Smyrna (the western port city of Turkey -), but with the growing of the market demand, the import and export ports imposed high tariffs, and people to the coffee tree planting enhanced domain knowledge, make the dealers and scientists are beginning to test the coffee portable to other countries. Dutch people in their overseas colonies (Batavia and Java, < Batavia namely now in Jakarta, Indonesia, old name - on >), the French in 1723 in Martinique (located in Latin America), and then in the Antilles (located in the west Indies -) were transplanted coffee tree; Later, the British, Spanish and Portuguese began to encroach on tropical coffee growing areas in Asia and America.
Northern Brazil in 1727 began the coffee planting, but bad weather conditions make the crop planting was gradually shifted to other area, the original is Rio DE janeiro, eventually to Sao Paulo and minas chau (about 1800-1850), the growth of coffee here find it an ideal environment. Coffee grows here and grows until it becomes Brazil's most important source of economic growth.
It was between 1740 and 1850 that coffee was planted in central and South America as the most popular.
Although coffee was born in Africa, farming and household consumption were relatively recent. In fact, it was the europeans who returned the coffee to their colony, where it thrived, thanks to favourable land and climate conditions.
The beginning of the 19th century, coffee was introduced into China by missionaries, in 1884, first appeared in Japan according to Taiwan's yunlin ancient pit generation times, at the end of the 19th century, by the French missionaries in China's yunnan province, in the early 20th century, China's overseas Chinese introducing coffee hainan xinglong, thus in the tradition of coffee history, hainan xinglong coffee, since the 1960 s, have been the attention of a number of national leaders, comrade zhou enlai visited xinglong, said: "drink so much coffee, or xinglong coffee is the best drink." To this day, the flourishing generation still populates the old tradition of drinking coffee and enjoying the coffee. In 2006, xinglong coffee was awarded as the national geographic landmark product.
