What are the cultures of western coffee?

Characteristics of Western Coffee Culture

Just like the tea culture in China, there is a rich history and connotation behind the coffee culture. Arabs first dried coffee beans and boiled them, and then drank their juice as stomach medicine, thinking that it could help digestion. Later, people found that coffee also has a refreshing effect. Because Islam forbids believers to drink alcohol, people use coffee instead of alcoholic drinks, which are usually drunk as refreshing drinks. /kloc-After the 5th century, Muslims who went to Mecca brought coffee back to their places of residence, and coffee gradually spread to Egypt, Syria, Iran and Turkey. Thanks to the Ottoman Empire in Turkey, coffee entered the European continent. Because the Ottoman army addicted to coffee entered the European continent westward, and stayed there for several years, when the army finally withdrew, they left a lot of materials, including coffee beans. People in Vienna and Paris used these coffee beans and the cooking experience gained by Turks to develop European coffee culture.

Generally speaking, western coffee culture is characterized by enthusiasm, boldness, freedom, conciseness, randomness, quickness and convenience. Romantic French coffee culture is an elegant charm, romantic mood and comfortable feeling of enjoying life. This is also a traditional and unique coffee culture. Coffee is not only a drink for them, but also contains rich cultural connotations. Cafes all over the city and countryside are symbols of the French way of life. It seems that the French pay attention not to taste, but to environment and mood. They are willing to buy a small cup of coffee at the price of a pot in the busy market outside, taste it slowly, carefully, read books and newspapers and talk about it. A "bubble" is most of the day. American coffee culture is excusable. When Americans drink coffee, it's like playing a game that doesn't need rules, and then give it a try. Americans are dismissive of Europeans' concern about making coffee. Americans drink coffee freely, and coffee has penetrated into their lives. Americans can hardly live without coffee 24 hours a day. Therefore, the United States is the country with the largest coffee consumption in the world. Generally speaking, Americans live a busy and stressful life. They often have a big pot of electric filtered coffee and drink it from morning till night. Because there is more water and less coffee, the taste is particularly weak. Therefore, many people criticize American coffee for being really bad. The United States is the largest exporter of instant coffee, but not many people drink instant coffee in the United States.

Enthusiastic Italy has two things worthy of tourists' attention, namely men and coffee. There is a famous Italian saying that men should be as strong and enthusiastic as good coffee! The characteristics of Italian coffee are reflected in its English name, which is a fast word; It won't take ten seconds, so drink it quickly, because there are only two or three mouthfuls. Generally speaking, the first thing Italians do when they get up is to make a cup of coffee. Men and women drink it almost from morning till night. In order to cooperate with the special function of instant coffee extraction in Italian coffee pot, Italian coffee beans are the longest fried coffee beans in the world.

Central and northern Europeans are not as enthusiastic as Italians, nor as romantic as French. They drink rationally and moderately, just like their national characteristics. From Austria, Switzerland, Germany and even several Nordic countries, the habits and tastes of coffee can be said to be similar, and the taste belongs to medium concentration. They usually make coffee at home, and the most common one is a simple household electric coffee pot. In recent years, the average coffee consumption of the people in the four Nordic countries has been among the top four in the world.

According to historical records, coffee was first planted successfully in Taiwan Province Province when it entered China in 1884. In the 10th year of Guangxu (AD 1884), an English tea merchant found that the climate in Taiwan Province Province was very similar to that in Central and South America, and thought it was a good place to grow coffee. As a result, the businessman introduced 100 coffee trees from Arabia and planted them in Taiwan Province Province, becoming the "originator" of Chinese coffee, which started the development of coffee in China. The earliest coffee cultivation in Chinese mainland began in Yunnan. At the beginning of the 20th century, a French missionary brought the first batch of coffee seedlings to Binchuan County, Yunnan Province for planting. At present, coffee trees introduced more than 0/00 years ago are planted in Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Taiwan Province and Xiamen, Fujian, which is called "Chinesecoffee". In the next 100 years, coffee cultivation in China, a vast country, is only "bit by bit".