Coffee Culture Coffee Legend

1. The Story of the Shepherd

There was a shepherd in Ethiopia in the 16th century. One day he found his sheep bouncing there. He thought it was very strange. After careful observation, he realized that the sheep had eaten a kind of red fruit.

So he took the fruit and distributed it to the monks in the monastery, and all of them felt refreshed after eating it; it is said that the fruit has since been used as a pick-me-up and has been well received by the people.

two。 The story of Arab monks

In 1258, Shek Omar, the chief expelled by his people for crime, was too hungry and tired to walk any longer when he wandered to Vasaba, far from his hometown of Mocha. When he was sitting on the root of a tree to rest, he found a bird coming and stopping on the branch, singing in a melodious voice he had never heard before. He looked closely and found that the bird was pecking at the fruit on the branch before it opened its throat and made a wonderful cry.