Pepper was introduced into China in two ways. One is the famous Silk Road, which entered Xinjiang, Gansu, Shaanxi and other places from West Asia and was first reclaimed in the northwest.

Second, it entered South China through the Straits of Malacca, and was planted in Yunnan, Guangxi and Hunan in the south, and then gradually expanded to the whole country, with almost no blank areas for peppers.

During the Qianlong period, Guizhou began to eat a large number of peppers, followed by Zhenxiong in Yunnan and Chenzhou in Hunan, which were adjacent to Guizhou. In the annals of Taiwan Province Province in the 12th year of Qianlong (1747), there is a record of eating Chili peppers on the island of Taiwan Province Province. After Jiaqing (1796-1820), it was recorded that Guizhou, Hunan, Sichuan and Jiangxi provinces had begun to "grow (pepper) for cooking".

During the Daoguang period (182 1 year-1850), everything in northern Guizhou was sprinkled with pepper. During the Tongzhi period (1862-1874), people in Guizhou "ate sea pepper in four seasons". Corn rice was popular in Guizhou in the late Qing Dynasty, and the dishes were mostly tofu pudding, that is, soaked salt blocks and sea peppers were dipped in water, which was a bit like tofu pudding dipped in sea peppers in Fushun, Sichuan today.

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According to historical records, the earliest time for Guizhou and Hunan to eat peppers was during the reign of Qing Qianlong, but it was generally after Daoguang. Later, it was widely planted in all parts of China. It was the latest spice introduced to China, but it was the most widely used spice.

The earliest people in China who ate Chili peppers were all in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, the so-called "Xiajiang people". When Xiajiang people tried peppers, Sichuanese didn't know what peppers were.

Interestingly, pepper was first introduced from Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Guangdong, but it was not fully utilized in those places, but spread to the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and southwest China.

After Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty, Guizhou, Hunan, Sichuan and Jiangxi all had "growing vegetables", "Don't put pepper and mustard, make more soup" and "If you choose extremely spicy food, every meal will be spicy". It shows that the history of Sichuan people eating Chili peppers is about 400 years.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Chili related history