1, Guizhou home cooking is almost always spicy as an accompaniment, bad chili, dry chili, oil chili, pickled chili, sharp chili... Dozens of different flavors and forms of spicy can be cooked to fill a table full of dishes. Guizhou is a multi-ethnic province, most of the ethnic groups mainly to plant rice, wheat, etc. as the main source of economic resources, therefore, glutinous food, coarse grains has also become a major dietary characteristics of Guizhou people.

2, Guizhou people are not afraid of spicy: salt is the base of all flavors, no salt is tasteless, due to the lack of salt in Guizhou's history, "bucket of rice pounds of salt" of the times of the environment, so that chili peppers jumped to the main of all flavors of Guizhou cuisine. Guizhou ethnic groups in the long-term practice of spicy, creating a variety of chili products and a wide range of chili dishes. The most characteristic edible ones are: dried chili pepper, lake chili noodle, patty cake chili pepper, red oil and chili pepper, bad chili pepper, yin chili pepper, fat chili pepper and lousy chili pepper. Guizhou people are addicted to spicy, people often explain as "the sky is not sunny for three days", humidity is too high, so use chili pepper to prevent the cold and drive away dampness. This is certainly one of the reasons, but more importantly because of the soil, climate and other natural conditions in Guizhou is suitable for the growth of chili peppers, and rich in the creation of Guizhou people of all ethnic groups, in the long-term crop cultivation, chili pepper consumption of life practices, giving the chili pepper is more rich, enticing culinary cultural connotations, so that this perennial shrub native to South Africa's berries in Guizhou plateau appeared to be more colorful and flavorful.

3, Guizhou people eat chili pepper in many ways, in addition to the general as a condiment, accompanied by meat, vegetables, frying, stir-frying, stewing, deep-frying, or boiled with dry powder, made of red oil, used to adjust the condiments of powder, noodles, or dry powder mixed with onions, soy sauce, vinegar, sesame oil, made of dipping water, dipping vegetables and vegetables outside, and even more to the fresh green people into the pot baked, and then add oil, salt, soy sauce, and other condiments, made of "fish loach chili", delicious. Every fall, select fresh red chili, plus ginger, garlic to knife slaughter crushed, add salt into the altar sealed into sour chili, used for stir-fry, sour and spicy suitable, taste special fresh.