Chili peppers were introduced to China in the late Ming Dynasty.

Columbus discovered chili peppers on his way to the Americas and brought them back to Spain, whereupon chili peppers spread almost immediately throughout the world. But that didn't do much for distant ancient China, because chili peppers didn't enter China until the end of the Ming Dynasty.

Chinese people contact with chili pepper full of time is only four hundred years, but has become one of the world's most able to eat spicy countries. In recent years, it is in the people's table, the street restaurant, everywhere you can see the figure of chili.

Chili peppers were initially used for ornamental purposes:

Chili peppers were introduced to China by sea after the Longqing switch and the lifting of the sea ban by the Ming Dynasty, along with the opening of new shipping routes. The earliest record of chili peppers in China came from the famous opera writer Gao Lian's "Zunsheng Bazian" during the Wanli period: "Peppers grow in clusters, with white flowers. The fruit looks like the head of a bald pen, with a spicy taste and red color, very impressive."

From this record, we can conclude that the earliest introduction of chili peppers into China is not to eat, but to see, and then the name is not called "chili pepper", called "pepper". This is normal, foreign crops who do not understand, no one dares to eat.

Refer to the above content of the Phoenix network - late Ming Dynasty introduced to China's chili pepper, why quickly swept across the country to become a favorite on the table

Refer to the above content of the Phoenix network - the end of the Ming Dynasty chili pepper was introduced to China initially was treated as an ornamental crop