Chili pepper is native to South America's Guyana Yen Island, is the local Indians with wild cultivation for home grown. Chili peppers were introduced to China in the Ming Dynasty, it is also known as pepper, sea pepper, hot pepper, Ban pepper, spicy tomato, however, it also has a little-known name - Qin pepper.

Legend has it that the supreme Emperor Qin Shi Huang, tired of eating the delicacies of the sea, he instructed his ministers to replace every meal with a good dish that has not been eaten. But the days are long, the world's delicious food let him taste all, this can do? The ministers hurt their brains. One day, the prime minister for the preparation of the emperor's dish, personally led his entourage to the deep mountains to find. That year was in the golden fall, in the sunrise of a large mountain, they saw a wild canopy full of fruits a little smaller than a fist, green, green, red, the prime minister then asked his entourage to pick some to bring back to the palace. Thus came the title Qin Pepper