Friends from other places come to chongqing, often by the Chongqing diet spicy to tears, friends often ask me, why Chongqing people so heavy taste, eat spicy so strong. Listen to old age as a child

Friends from other places come to chongqing, often by the Chongqing diet spicy to tears, friends often ask me, why Chongqing people so heavy taste, eat spicy so strong.

When I was a child, I heard my father say that because Chongqing is located in liangjiang, the humidity is heavy, and the pepper can dehumidify, so I will eat hard, and I will get used to eating more. So I was very stupid and naïve, and I actually believed it, is this really the case?

In fact, the real reason is two, one is partiality, and the other is poverty.

Pepper is native to the Americas, the middle and late Ming Dynasty through Guangzhou, Ningbo, Liaoning three ports into the mainland, the first as an ornamental plant, but for consumption, but in Guizhou Miao indigenous began, because Guizhou mountainous, lack of salt, pepper can replace salt, promote saliva secretion, for use in rice. With sea salt as a support in coastal areas, there is naturally no need to replace salt with chili peppers.

The experience of eating peppers in the middle and late Qing Dynasty spread throughout the country through the waterway of the Yangtze River, and gradually formed the "heavy spicy belt in the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River" dominated by Hunan, Chongqing, Guizhou and Sichuan, so it is the main reason for eating peppers because of the distance from the sea.

The second is poverty, pigs, cattle and sheep and other major economic meats are simply not enough to eat, had to use the heavy mouth of peppers to cover up the strange taste of low-grade ingredients under the scraps, so that the food becomes more, you think, if there is no pepper, hairy belly, duck intestines, brain flowers, yellow throat, these things are completely impossible to eat.

As for why Chongqing people are more famous for eating spicy, it is necessary to talk about the cultural development of the spicy area itself, which determines its influence.

Now when it comes to eating spicy, first think of Chongqing hot pot, first of all, there is the history of the Republic of China as the foundation, second, the proportion of people who go out to work in sichuan and Chongqing is particularly large, the expansion of spicy culture is very fast, coupled with the recent two years of short videos, the title of Chongqing 4D magic city is getting louder and louder, and when it comes to eating spicy, the first thing that comes to mind Chongqing is a natural thing.