Cilantro is not a local population in our country, it is an exotic species, which traveled across the ocean to our country, and live down until now into a kind of ingredients that we love. We can now eat the fragrant lai, the first to be grateful to a person, that is Zhang Qian, fragrant lai is his mission to the western region of the process to bring home.

Shang Lai was just brought back in the case, there is no name, then brought home a lot of objects, and the language of the northern part of the language expression is very complicated, there is a way to bring home one by one will be the name of the object to write down. In the beginning, it was called coriander, which is recorded in "Museum". For why it is called coriander, there is a reason, people who have studied the time should understand, the Han Dynasty will be called the north of the Sebei Hu, and Xianglei is a woody plant, "" coriander "" character on the head of a grass, means a plant, so everyone will be called Xianglei

After that, the naming of the fragrant lai was changed from "caraway" to "coriander", which is also the most formal Chinese name of the fragrant lai, which is described in the "Materia Medica", and people who have studied microbiology need to know. There is a genus of green plants called coriander, and vanilla is one of the plants in the genus. Although coriander is the announcement of the name of the coriander, but the country's native language is not the same, in the announcement of the name and the accent of the "fight", the native language prevailed in the wind. Moreover, the word "coriander" is not common to the general public. Therefore, after that, people in many areas called Xianglai "salt", especially in Guizhou and Yunnan provinces.

It is believed that coriander came to mind when people saw the word "salt", which is in fact a portmanteau of coriander, the declared name of the fragrant lilies. So the guys now understand why some regions people would call the shirai as salt crumbles. Many regions will likely have different names for cilantro, and some regions don't necessarily call it salt, but rather have another name based on the italics of coriander. Although there are many different aliases for cilantro, salt pork is one of the more common ones other than "coriander". If you are curious about the other aliases for cilantro, you can look up more information about cilantro on the Internet. The netizens in the understanding of the fragrant Lai called "salt crushed" and its origin, sigh: after eating so many ten years of Lai, or the first time to understand this kind of specialized knowledge, is really amazing, long knowledge!