Why is coffee discovered later than tea, but it is spread all over the world?

In the era of great navigation, various colonial countries spread coffee cultivation to all the places suitable for coffee cultivation in the world for commercial interests, and also brought coffee drinking to all parts of the world except China.

You know, coffee was grown in colonies at that time, and slaves grew coffee. So at that time, the cost of coffee cultivation was very low and the operating profit was huge. This is the fundamental reason why coffee cultivation first spread rapidly to all areas suitable for coffee cultivation in the world.

On the other hand, with the British colonization, tea drinking later spread to all parts of the world, including the United States. So the main way of drinking tea all over the world is English.

During this period, China was in a weak position, so although the drinking way of China tea was more colorful, it was not understood and accepted by all countries in the world. Only in recent years, the way of drinking tea in China has been known by some people in other countries in the world, but it has not been widely accepted.

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Coffee trees are native to the plateau area in southwest Ethiopia, Africa. It is said that more than a thousand years ago, a shepherd found that sheep ate a plant, became very excited and lively, and then discovered coffee. It is also said that a coffee forest was accidentally burned by wildfire, and the smell of barbecue coffee attracted the attention of the surrounding residents.

Local aborigines often grind the fruit of coffee tree, then mix it with animal fat and knead it into many spherical balls. These indigenous tribes regard these coffee balls as precious food for soldiers who are about to go out.

It was not until 1 1 century or so that people began to use brewed coffee as a drink. /kloc-In the 3rd century, Ethiopian troops invaded Yemen and brought coffee to the Arab world.

Because Islam forbids believers to drink alcohol, some religious people think that this kind of drink stimulates the nerves and violates the teachings. There was a time when coffee shops were banned and closed, but the Sultan of Egypt thought that coffee did not violate the teachings, so the ban was lifted and coffee drinks quickly became popular in the Arab region.

There are different opinions about the origin of tea drinking in China: tracing back to the origin of tea drinking in China, some think it originated in ancient times, others think it originated in Zhou Dynasty, Qin and Han Dynasties, Three Kingdoms, Southern and Northern Dynasties and Tang Dynasty.

The main reason for the disagreement is that there was no word "tea" before the Tang Dynasty, but only the word "tea" was recorded. It was not until Lu Yu, the author of the Book of Tea, wrote the word "tea" as "tea", so there was a saying that tea originated in the Tang Dynasty. Others are said to have originated in Shennong and Qin and Han Dynasties.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-coffee

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-tea