? For most Jiangxi people, chili peppers are an integral part of life.? Since ancient times, eating spicy food seems to be our birthright. "Boss put more chili pepper" Nanchang people always like to teach their hosts a few lessons when they mix noodles or eat something?

Eating spicy food seems to have become a language for Jiangxi people to communicate their feelings. Those who can eat spicy food form a table, and bright lobster escargot, sizzling boiled beef and delicious diced chicken with chili peppers heat up the atmosphere quickly.? Sometimes the chili itself becomes the object of tasting, with pickled chili peppers, millet chili peppers, Hangzhou chili peppers, lantern chili peppers and the ability to give birth to new flavors? .

However, our history of eating chili peppers in Jiangxi, or even in China, may be too short for you to believe.? Chili peppers didn't even exist in China before the Ming Dynasty.? In other words, it took us just over 400 years to conquer the chili pepper, which rivals almost every food on the table today.?

In 1492, Columbus discovered the New World on one of his great voyages. Since then, chili peppers, corn, potatoes, and other regulars on our tables today have only been recognized by people outside the American continent.? Over the next few years, chili peppers began to spread on a small scale in Europe and then slowly made their way to China via the Maritime Silk Road. On the east coast (research suggests that it may have been Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces as well as Guangdong and Guangxi, and it seems that we in Jiangxi still ate chili peppers before the people of Hunan and Sichuan.

The earliest record of chili peppers in China is the 1591 book Zunsheng Bazian (Eight Notes on Zunsheng), written by Gao Lian of the Ming Dynasty. "Chili peppers are clustered with white flowers, and the fruit looks like a bald head with an impressive pungent and reddish flavor." ? "In the year of Zunsheng Bazhi, red chili peppers were recorded as being "in bloom in all seasons," mainly indicating the cultivation of a variety of flowers."? In other words, chili peppers were used as ornamental plants at the time, and people were quite wary of eating them.?