Bananas were cultivated in China in the Han Dynasty, and were called "dried bananas" at that time. It is said that bananas were one of the rare flowers and trees in the world when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty began to help Li Palace. In the third century, Alexander discovered bananas during his expedition to India, and then bananas spread all over the world. According to Egyptian archaeologists found in unearthed cultural relics, as far back as 4000 years ago, there were pictures of bananas on Egyptian pottery, and the history of planting bananas in Africa was earlier than that in China. It is said that the Greeks began to eat bananas more than four thousand years ago.
In ancient India and Persia, people thought that golden banana fruit was "a good health-care fruit given by God". Legend has it that Sakyamuni, the ancestor of Buddhism, gained wisdom by eating bananas, so bananas are called "fruits of wisdom".
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China is one of the ancient countries that cultivate bananas in the world, and most of the main banana varieties in the world are handed down from China. Bananas are distributed in tropical and subtropical areas within the latitude of 30 degrees in the east, west and southern hemisphere. Bananas are grown in 130 countries in the world, among which Central America has the highest yield, followed by Asia. Bananas in China are mainly distributed in Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Taiwan Province, Yunnan and Hainan, with a small amount planted in Guizhou, Sichuan and Chongqing.
Bananas in Taiwan Province Province are mainly planted in Kaohsiung and Pingtung, followed by Taichung and Taitung. Fujian is mainly concentrated in Zhangpu, Pinghe, Nanjing, Changtai, Zhao 'an, Hua 'an, Xiao Yun, Longhai, Xiamen, Nan 'an, Putian, Zhangzhou (Tianbao) and Xianyou. Bananas in Hainan are mainly distributed in Danzhou, Chengmai, Sanya, Dongfang and other places, with the largest output in the east.
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