Hancheng Zanthoxylum bungeanum has a long history and has been cultivated for more than 600 years. According to the description of "Ma Yan, Kapok Swallow, Zanthoxylum Bunge Swallow, Persimmon Swallow and Walnut Swallow" found in local products in the thirty-fifth year of Wanli in Ming Dynasty (namely 1607). In the forty-second year of Emperor Kangxi of Qing Dynasty (namely, A.D. 1703), "Continued Records of Hancheng County" also included "Northwest Mountain Peppers, winding streams, villa trees in various villages in Yuan Ye, and Dahongpao ... is as far away as Jianghuai". Since the reform and opening-up, successive municipal committees and municipal governments in hancheng city have taken the development of superior pepper industry as a strategic task of prospering Korea and enriching the people. After more than 20 years of unremitting efforts, they have built10.35 billion pepper bases that run through the shallow mountain plateau area in the city center, with the pepper output exceeding 6.5438+0.5 million kilograms and the annual income exceeding 300 million yuan. 1 1 towns in the city have become specialized production towns of pepper, and 195 administrative villages have become specialized production villages of pepper; There are 20,000 large pepper growers in this city, and more than 1 1,000 peppers have been planted. The "Hancheng Dahongpao Zanthoxylum Base Construction" declared by 1996 was included in the second batch of national agricultural standardization demonstration zone projects with high yield, high quality and high efficiency by the State Bureau of Quality and Technical Supervision 1998. The "hancheng city Zanthoxylum bungeanum Industrialization Development and Construction" declared in 2000 was included in the national mountain economic industrialization demonstration project by the State Planning Commission in 2003. Hancheng has become the largest pepper production base county (city) with the highest yield and the best benefit in China.

In 200 1 year, the hancheng city municipal government funded and cooperated with the College of Food Science and Engineering of Northwest A&F University to formulate the local standard of Zanthoxylum bungeanum in Shaanxi Province, which was officially promulgated by the Shaanxi Provincial Bureau of Quality and Technical Supervision in 2002. The certificate of origin of "Hancheng Dahongpao Zanthoxylum bungeanum" declared by 1998 was approved and registered by the Trademark Office of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce in June 2002. It is the only certificate of origin trademark of pepper and agricultural products registered by the State Trademark Office in northwest China. The successful registration of the certificate of origin of "Hancheng Dahongpao Zanthoxylum bungeanum" will establish the brand advantage for Hancheng Dahongpao Zanthoxylum bungeanum in the fierce market competition, and also provide consumers with pollution-free green food.