Although my IQ is often off-line, as long as it comes to eating, I can understand the changes from ancient times to modern times! I don't know how many people have been stumped by the following question, but it is easy for my sister with the tip of the tongue.
The country that produces the most potatoes has no hesitation in choosing China, and it has this mysterious confidence in the motherland!
Since it comes to millions of heroes, the glory of the king and China, today.
potato
Potatoes, also known as potatoes, potatoes, yam eggs, etc., are perennial herbs of Solanaceae. We eat not its fruits or roots, but tubers. Potato is the fourth most important food crop in the world, and it has become the fifth largest crop in the world together with wheat, rice, corn and sorghum. Now answer the question of the title: Why does the name of potato have both "earth" and "foreign"?
It is called "earth" because it grows in the earth, and it is called "foreign" because it came from the west.
Source and flow of potato
Potatoes are native to the Andes in South America, and the history of artificial cultivation can be traced back to the southern part of Peru from 8000 BC to 5000 BC. Lake Titicaca (not a sick sentence) above the altitude of 3800 meters in the Andes may be the earliest place to cultivate potatoes.
About 7000 years ago, an Indian tribe migrated from the east to the alpine Andes, camped near Lake Titicaca, and made a living by hunting and gathering. They were the first to find and eat wild potatoes.
After Columbus discovered the New World, potatoes spread to the world one after another. So if you find potatoes in costume dramas before the Ming Dynasty, you can spit them out mercilessly.
Potatoes are in China
The potato is called this name because its shape is particularly similar to that of a horse bell. These three words were first recorded in Songxi County Records Food Goods in Qing Dynasty. Because potatoes are especially suitable for growing in alpine regions, a large number of potatoes can be grown in the land with low grain yield in the past, which directly led to the explosive growth of China population in the prosperous period of Kanggan.
In 20 15, China started the potato staple food strategy, and promoted the processing of potatoes into steamed bread, noodles, rice noodles and other staple foods, and potatoes became another staple food besides rice, wheat and corn. Today, China's potato production is far ahead in the world.