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1, there are fruits originating in China, such as peaches, plums, apricots, oranges, pears, sour plums and walnuts. (Note: 1972 found walnuts unearthed in magnetic mountain culture site about 7,000 years ago, which corrected the so-called statement that Zhang Qian in the Han Dynasty was introduced from the Western Regions. )

2. Grapes and pomegranates introduced by Zhang Qian and others from the Western Regions.

Vegetables have been human food since ancient times. Now the common vegetables are eggplant, cucumber, spinach, lentils, sword beans and so on, all of which were introduced from abroad from Wei, Jin, Tang and Song Dynasties. Eggplant, native to India and Thailand. Cucumber originated in India and was introduced to China later than eggplant. Originally called cucumber, it is still called cucumber in some places now. Spinach was introduced from Nepal (now Nepal) during the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty. It was originally called spinach, and later it was called spinach for short. Lentils originated in Java and were introduced to China in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Canary bean originated in India and was introduced to China in the Tang Dynasty.

Since the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, some varieties have been added to the recipes in China. Carrots originated in northern Europe and were introduced from Persia in the Yuan Dynasty. Pepper and tomato were introduced later. Although tomatoes were introduced into China from Europe, their ancestral home is Peru in South America. The original name of tomato is Wolf Peach. When Peruvian aborigines first discovered it, they thought it was poisonous and dared not eat it. At the end of Qing Dynasty, all the existing traditional vegetable varieties in China basically appeared.