The World's Three Greatest Drinks

The world's top three drinks are cocoa, coffee and tea.

1, cocoa

The origin of cocoa beans is mainly distributed in the equator south and north latitude of about 20 degrees within the region. This is because the hot, rainy climate is the most suitable environment for cocoa beans to grow. The cacao tree needs an average annual temperature between 18-28 ℃, high humidity, annual precipitation of not less than 1000 mm, and an altitude between 30-300 meters.

The cacao tree prefers thick, heavy loam or light clay soils rich in potassium salts, especially volcanic soils and soils formed on the destruction products of granite, diorite, shale and gneiss. Cacao nibs vary in flavor from place to place, some taking on a fruity, some smoky flavor.

2, coffee

The coffee tree is native to the highlands of southwestern Ethiopia in Africa. Local natives often grind the fruit of the coffee tree and then mix it with animal fat and knead it together to make many ball-shaped pills. It was not until around the 11th century that people began to boil coffee in water as a beverage.

At first, coffee was expensive in Europe, and in 1727, the wife of a diplomat in Dutch Guiana, gave a few coffee seeds to a Spaniard in Brazil, where he tried to grow them with good results. Brazil's climate is very suitable for the growth of coffee, coffee has spread rapidly in South America. Because of the mass production and price drop of coffee began to become an important beverage for Europeans.

3, tea

Tea from China's clouds, Guizhou, Sichuan plateau to the country spread, there is an ancient "Shu tea called the Holy, the first family of Mengding" said. Qin unified China, tea down the Yangtze River and spread half of China, China now has 17 provinces, more than 900 counties produce tea.

By the coast of China to 50 countries and regions of the world. Tea as a commodity imported into Europe in 1610, first the Netherlands, Portugal, imported into the United Kingdom in 1638. 1664 imported into Tsarist Russia. 17th century imported into the Americas, imported into New York in 1674.

Chinese tea culture:

China is the hometown of tea, but also the birthplace of tea culture. But because different democracies and regions have different tea cultures because of their living habits. Just as different tea also have different tea culture, such as Taihu smoked bean tea, Fujian oolong tea, Hunan ginger salt tea, Hangzhou Longjing tea and so on.

Tea culture is a blend of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, in the research and development by various dynasties, before the formation of the current tea culture. Tea culture is a concrete expression of China's understanding of tea. The spirit of tea culture through steeping, enjoying, smelling, drinking and other tea rituals combined, and then formed a unique tea culture characteristics. At the same time, tea culture is also represents the traditional culture.