In ancient times, spicy food was replaced by pepper, dogwood, pepper, ginger, mustard, onion and garlic. Pepper was introduced to China in the Ming Dynasty in16th century. Prior to this, the spicy taste in ancient China was mainly spicy, which was an important feature of food culture in many parts of China. In ancient China, there were many spicy condiments, such as pepper, ginger and dogwood.

pepper

Pepper, alias horn pepper, long pepper, vegetable pepper and lantern pepper, is an annual or limited perennial herb of Magnoliaceae and Capsicum.

Pepper fruit is long finger-shaped, and the top is gradually pointed, often in an arc shape. It is green when it is immature, and turns red, orange or purple when it is mature, which is spicy.

Pepper has strict requirements on conditional moisture, is neither drought-tolerant nor waterlogging-tolerant, and likes relatively dry air conditions.