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When were pepper tomatoes introduced from overseas?
Introduction to Pepper: Pepper is native to Central and South America and was originally the most important condiment for Indians. /kloc-At the end of 0/6, pepper was introduced to China, and it was called "pepper". The spectrum of grass flowers in the Ming Dynasty recorded an exotic grass flower named "Fanjiao". 159 1 year, pepper has been introduced and cultivated as an ornamental flower in China, but it has not been used in diet. During the Qianlong period of Qing Dynasty, peppers were eaten as vegetables by China people. According to reports, the earliest people who ate Chili peppers in China were all in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, the so-called "Xiajiang people".

Introduction of tomatoes: Tomatoes are also called tomatoes, persimmons and foreign persimmons. According to research, there were tomatoes in China about 2000 years ago, and tomatoes grown in China were introduced from Europe and Southeast Asia. There is a record of "Fan persimmon" in the appendix of the fruit spectrum of Guangfang Qunpu in Qing Dynasty: "The stem is like Artemisia, four or five feet high, the leaves are like Artemisia, the flowers are like pomegranate, and one branch bears five or three or four fruits ... The herbs are also from Xifan, hence the name". Because of its special taste, tomatoes were mostly planted as ornamental plants at that time. By the beginning of the 20th century, they began to be planted and eaten in the suburbs of cities. Tomato cultivation in China developed rapidly in the early 1950s.