This article originated from a friend in a foreign country asked about the question of Hua Kui (below), just think that it is better to do a "Geisha" ("Gem Summer", hereinafter collectively referred to as "Geisha"), "Geisha" and "Hua Kui", which are three concepts that are easily confused in everyone's cognition, and tell the origin of their names and background stories, I believe that with the reading level of our readers, we can quickly understand clearly.
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Geisha
The story of Geisha dates back to 1931, when its name first appeared in a project manual called the Survey of Wild Coffee Varieties in Ethiopia, a space odyssey. The project aims to assess the disease resistance of various coffee varieties and their likelihood of joining the world circulation in coffee growing environments with various pests and diseases.
The Survey of Wild Coffee Varieties in Ethiopia is a global collection project in which hundreds of coffee varieties travel from several participating countries from Tanzania to Costa Rica, where coffee gene banks and communication networks are clustered and re-disseminated. At this time, no one had found that "Geisha" was of great help in the fight against "ojo de gallo", a fungal disease of plants that approximated leaf rust, which has a very high mortality rate for vegetation.
"Survey of Wild Coffee Varieties in Ethiopia" collection path
In 1963, a coffee farmer directed a wagon full of coffee saplings and new varieties of coffee seeds into the gates of the estate, and they had just returned to their farm from the Costa Rican Center for Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education (CATIE), and "Don Pachi" became the first coffee estate to start experimenting with growing "Geisha".
At the "Don Pachi" estate, the advantages of "Geisha" rust resistance were gradually discovered, and therefore distributed to other coffee farmers in the Panama region, but because of the small production of the "Geisha" at the beginning, the flavor was never widely planted due to the unsatisfactory water and soil of the first arrival in Panama, so that it became the "ranger tree" of the manor - a tree that shields the wind and sand, excessive sunlight and absorbs excessive rainwater, and is planted around the manor.
As for how the "Emerald Manor" discovered the "Hidden Jade Treasure" of "Geisha" after that, that is another story.
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geisha
"Geisha" itself is one of the popular interpretations of "Geisha", derived from the Roman sound of the Japanese language (芸者げいしゃ): Geisha.
The overlap of the two names is more of a coincidence, as well as the Japanese culture of reading, which originally meant that Kanji was marked with the original pronunciation of Japanese, just as Geisha's interpretation of "geisha" in Japanese refers to "Geisha"\"Gem summer". (In fact, "Geisha" is just a local place name in Ethiopia, which translates to "Gesha" in Chinese, and there are other spelling methods such as "Gesha".) ）
"Gem Summer Village" comes from the official website of Geisha Village
Regarding the popularization of the translated name "geisha", there have been studies and discussions within the coffee industry:
- Why did "geisha" become a commonly used name?
- Is this "pun" interpretation appropriate to be crowned on top of this coffee variety?
Seng Ueno is an equipment distributor of FBC International in Japan. Regarding the former, Ueno said, because geisha often symbolize Japanese culture such as Mt. Fuji and sushi, it is a cultural form that is easily promoted, especially in Japan. He found that when Japanese consumers use the pun "geisha," coffee practitioners and coffee professionals often don't try to correct misunderstandings.
Regarding the latter, Ueno agrees that the correct statement should be used continuously, because the coffee itself comes from Ethiopia, not Japan. "Every major consumer country, including Japan, must respect its original culture." Ueno said that "writing and language are the culture and foundation of every people. ”
The origin of "Hua Kui" (a name that has nothing to do with "Gem Summer") is based on the already rhetorical interpretation of "geisha", which is more deviantly understood.
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Flower Quill
As stated at the beginning, "Hua Kui" is a coffee name that only exists in China.
In 2017, a sun-dried bean from DW's "Buku Abel" treatment plant won the TOH championship, and China's green bean importers named the bean "Hua Kui". Specifically, why is it called "Hua Kui"? The original provenance is no longer available, and the widely spread saying is that the "Hua Kui" defeated a group of "Gem Summer" to win the championship, proving that its overall performance was better than that of Gem Xia, so in the concept of "Geisha", the "Hua Kui" was super pulled out.
Everything seems logical, but interestingly, all the deviations start with the "geisha".
In 1603, the eighth year of The Japanese Keicho, in the West Square of Kitano Tenmangu Shrine in Kyoto, a group of men and women dressed up and danced a dance that no one around them knew, which attracted everyone around them to stop and watch, street vendors, farmers who returned to the fields, samurai who lived in the guest house, and even the public families of the lower dynasty were attracted by this beautiful dance. The lead dancer's face was white, and it was clear that it was a girl dressed as a man.
After a dance, the girl jumped off the high platform of the square and loudly introduced, "I am a witch from the Overseas Taisha Shrine, called Ah Yun, and the dance performed for everyone today is the TiltIng Dance (かぶき踊り), thank you very much for watching." "The name of this dance is the etymology of Kabuki (the origin of Japanese geisha). From later generations onwards, Kabuki gradually transformed into court performers, serving the shogunate and the emperor in choreographing theatrical dances.
On June 3, 111, Lin Qingguan printed the Kingdom of The Cloud
Similar occupations and stories have been passed down through the world in ancient China. During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, after the founding emperor of the Later Tang Dynasty, Li Cunxun, took the throne, especially loved the drama of Youling, tried to rehearse dramas with the court theater troupe, called himself "Li Tianxia", and in contemporary times, he also had the interest of forming a boy group to debut.
One day, during the rehearsal of the play, Li Cunxun followed the lines, looked around, and shouted "Li Tianxia!" Lee The World! One of the people ran out, walked quickly to Li Cunxun, raised his hand and slapped him. Li Cunxun was suddenly stunned, and the other people were also horrified, and at first glance, this young man was called Jing Xin mo. Jing Xin smiled and said, "There is only one emperor in the world, who else are you calling?" Li Cunxun laughed after hearing this, and rewarded Jing Xinmo again.
In the Western world, "lingren" and "kabuki" were replaced by simpler and more straightforward "rigolets" (or translated as "court clowns").
In the famous literary work and opera "The King's Quest", the French Emperor François I, with a waiter named "Triboulet", because of his lack of mouth, François I warned him five times: "Shake my family again, and I will unload your head!" ”
As a result, Tribre continued to go his own way, forcing the emperor to sentence him to death. But François I remembered his old feelings and promised him that "you can choose a way to die yourself." Triblai said respectfully, "The little man wishes to die of old age." François I laughed and immediately spared Tribre's death sentence.
Stills from the Italian opera Rigoletto Tribra
Back to the main line, "Geisha" began with the translation of the name "Geisha", and the popular naming of coffee became more and more biased. But even so, Hua Kui, a bean that comes from the "BukuAbel" treatment plant for a unique tanning treatment, still has its own extremely unique and iconic flavor. (Introduction to "Buku Abel" is attached below)