However, if you are a history major, it's really funny. China is one of the four ancient civilizations and the only country with complete culture. This also means that our country has a very long history and our ancestors were very clever. As early as the Stone Age, they created pottery. Pickling pickles began in the Zhou Dynasty, and we can even see the word "food" mentioned in previous ancient books.
This refers to a series of pickled vegetables such as sauerkraut and kimchi. In Mawangdui in the Western Han Dynasty, archaeologists discovered that Jiang Ye, a fermented soybean, is the oldest pickled vegetable in the world. Later, during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, a small part of North Korea's land was in China, and some people in southern China brought this technology to the north. At this time, Koreans also learned to pickle pickles.
Then South Korea also developed a new kind of kimchi, which is Korean kimchi. Of course, kimchi flourished in the Ming Dynasty, when Korea was invaded by Japan, and it turned to the Ming Dynasty for help. After receiving this distress call, the Ming Dynasty sent soldiers and generals. At this time, they brought kimchi to Korea. Kimchi in Korea has flourished.
But to be honest, Sichuan and Chongqing are still the best places to pickle pickles in China. In the northeast, there are many pickles, that is, vegetables pickled with soy sauce. This also means that even if there is no clear historical record of when kimchi originated, the history of pickled kimchi in China can be traced back to before the Zhou Dynasty. This is obviously much longer than the development history of Korea, so kimchi obviously originated in China rather than Korea.