What is the history of pepper being introduced into China?

Pepper is native to tropical areas of Central America and Latin America, and its origin is Mexico. /kloc-At the end of 0/5, Columbus discovered America and brought pepper back to Europe. 1493 was first introduced to Europe, and about 1583- 1598 was introduced to Japan. It is unknown when it was introduced into China. Textual research tells us that Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica in Ming Dynasty has no shadow of pepper. The earliest record of pepper in China is Eight Chapters of Respect for Life written by Gao Lian in the Ming Dynasty (159 1 year), in which it is described that "pepper is full of white flowers, the fruit is like a bald head, and the taste is hot and red, which is very impressive". According to this record, it is generally believed that pepper was introduced into China in the late Ming Dynasty.

There are two paths for pepper to enter China. One is to declare the far-reaching Silk Road, which entered Xinjiang, Gansu, Shaanxi and other places from West Asia and took the lead in cultivating it in the northwest; First, it entered South China through the Straits of Malacca, and was cultivated in Yunnan, Guangxi and Hunan in the south, and then gradually expanded to the whole country. Up to now, there are almost no blank areas in peppers.

Morning pepper is the general name of this group of peppers whose fruits grow upward (upward or obliquely upward). It is cultivated in most areas of China.

China is rich in pepper variety resources, including string pepper, cone pepper (small fruit type), long pepper (short finger type), cherry pepper and lantern pepper. 1976, Tianjin and Henan introduced three kinds of cherry pepper from Japan for the first time. Later, China introduced several capsicum varieties from Japan, South Korea and the United States. At present, the pepper varieties planted in large areas in China are mainly imported varieties, mainly Japanese three cherry peppers (clustered peppers) and scattered "bullet" (long peppers); Guizhou pepper (cone pepper) is the main variety with large local planting area. Small peppers (cone peppers) in Guizhou are cultivated only in Guizhou province, and the main varieties cultivated in other provinces and cities are Japanese three cherry peppers (cluster peppers) and scattered "bombs" (long peppers).