The origin of the coffee is no longer verifiable. One of the many legends refers to the origin of coffee in the plateau region of Kaffa province in southwest Ethiopia, which is said to have been discovered more than 1,000 years ago by a shepherd, who discovered that his sheep had eaten a plant and became very excited and lively, thus discovering coffee. It is also said that due to a wildfire, burned a coffee forest, the smell of barbecue coffee attracted the attention of surrounding residents. The people first chewed the fruit of this plant to refresh themselves, and later baked and ground it into flour to make bread, which was used as food for warriors to improve their courage in battle. However, these legends lack historical documentation and only appear in later travel biographies, which is unable to investigate the real origin of coffee.
It was not until around the 11th century that people began to make coffee with water as a drink. In the 13th century, Ethiopian troops invaded Yemen, bringing coffee to the Arab world. Because the Islamic doctrine banned believers from drinking, some religious circles thought that the drink stimulated the nerve and violated the doctrine, once banned and closed coffee shops, but the Egyptian Sudan believed that coffee does not violate the doctrine, so lifting the ban, coffee drinks quickly became popular in the Arab region. The word coffee Coffee comes from the Arabic word Qahwa, which means "plant drink" and was later spread to Turkey and became the source of the word in the European language. Coffee planting, the method of making it has also been constantly improved and gradually perfected by the Arabs.
However, before the 15th century AD, coffee was long monopolized by the Arab world and spread only among Muslim countries. At that time, it was mainly used in medicine and religion, Muslim doctors and monks acknowledged that coffee has the effects of refreshing the brain, strengthening the stomach, strengthening the body, and stopping bleeding,etc. The use of coffee began to be documented in the early 15th century, and during this period it was integrated into religious ceremonies, but also appeared in the folk as a daily drink. Because drinking alcohol is forbidden in the Muslim world, coffee became an important social drink at that time. Until the 16th and 17th centuries, coffee was introduced into Europe through the trading of Venetian merchants and the Dutch, who were hegemonic on the sea. Soon, this black drink full of Oriental mystery, rich taste and fragrant aroma were competed for by the aristocratic gentry class, and the price of coffee also rose with the tide, and even produced the title of "black gold". And in the following upsurge of the great age of navigation, through the spread of shipping, the world has been included in the production and consumption of coffee map.
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