
Qin pepper
Do you know what is called "chili pepper" in the Lunan dialect? It's called "Qin Pepper". The Chinese Dictionary interprets "Qin pepper" as "qín jiāo, [fang]: slender pepper; i.e. 'pepper'. It is named after the Qin dynasty. " means.
Taken in May 2021
Some people call Qin pepper, is a good product in pepper, known as the "king of peppers", with bright red color, spicy flavor, slender body shape, thick flesh oil, uniform surface wrinkles and other characteristics. In the past, when I was in the countryside of Southwest Lu, the Qin peppers I planted were slender peppers. It gives me the impression that when cooking mutton soup, some dried Qin peppers are put into a bone lamb pot and boiled into the soup; then, the red Qin pepper is fished out, the water is drained, mixed into raw mutton oil, crushed with a scoop, and put into the mutton soup to dissolve the mutton oil, and a layer of red mutton oil is formed on the soup, which attracts people's appetite. Nowadays, the same lamb soup is cooked with chili peppers sold in supermarkets, and it feels very red, but the chili oil is less, and the taste is not as good as before.
Qin pepper, widely produced, grows from the southeast to the northern slope of Wuling, southeast to the coastal areas of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and southwest to southeast Tibet, and grows in the mountains and plains at higher altitudes. The Tang Dynasty poet Wang Weiliu has a poem "Yuanchuan Ji Jiaoyuan": "GuiZun greets the emperor, and Du Ruo gives a beautiful person." Pepper pulp founded Yao Seat, want to go down to the clouds in the jun", in addition, there are many literati who have left the ancient poems of Qin pepper. In the ancient medicine prescriptions of traditional Chinese medicine, there are also many medical records of the medicinal effects of Qin pepper. Nowadays, Sichuan is not afraid of spicy, Guizhou is not afraid of spicy, Hunan is not afraid of spicy, people in these three places, almost everyone can not eat without chili peppers. Although I am not as spicy as they are, I also love to eat Qin peppers, especially condiments made from various peppers. At the same time, it is also recommended that people suffering from hemorrhoids, eye diseases, chronic cholecystitis and other diseases and poor gastrointestinal function eat less. Normal people should also have a degree of spicy food, and should act according to their own eating energy, otherwise they will be addicted when eating, and their physical health will be adversely affected.