My hometown is Sichuan, so we eat spicy food very well. But not many people really understand chili, including the local people in Sichuan. Everyone just eats chili, but they don’t know that chili was not originally produced from our country.
The country of origin of peppers is Mexican . The first to domesticate peppers was the Mexican Indian . At the end of the 15th century, Columbus discovered the Americas and brought peppers back to Europe, and spread them to other parts of the world. It was later introduced to China in the Ming Dynasty. Sichuan people call peppers " sea pepper ". Just as Ming Dynasty people called "single peppers", it is said that peppers come from foreign countries.
Before chili was introduced to China, the three spicy seasonings in China were pepper, ginger and dogwood (yes, dogwood is spicy).
Because of its green leaves and red fruits, it is very beautiful, so when it was introduced to my country, it was regarded as an ornamental plant of . It was not until the Qianlong period that Guizhou area began to eat a lot of chili peppers, and then Yunnan Zhenxiong and Hunan Chenzhou Prefecture, which were adjacent to Guizhou, also began to eat chili peppers.
After Jiaqing , it is recorded that Guizhou, Hunan, Sichuan and Jiangxi provinces have also begun to "plant (pickles) as vegetables". Later on, chili peppers have become one of the main cooking ingredients in these areas. No wonder eating spicy food has become an important feature of the diet of these provinces today.
chili peppers contain capsaicin , which can stimulate saliva secretion, increase appetite, promote food digestion and absorption, and relieve symptoms of indigestion. Chili peppers also have antibacterial effects, which significantly inhibit Bacillus cereus and Bacillus subtilis, and can enhance the body's immunity. In addition, the pepper smells hot and has the effect of sweating and relieving exterior symptoms. It is often used to regulate wind-cold cold , cold-hate , cold-hate , spleen and stomach deficiency and cold , low appetite for greasy moss, cold and dampness stagnation and other diseases.
