Chapter 50 Section 50 Localized Survival of Pepper

Pepper was called Panjiao in the early years, but apart from academic exchanges, few people know the name of Panjiao now. If it is not a special question, no one will ask whether chili is a native plant in China. I am also in When "New Culture" discussed it, I suddenly thought of this question: Is chili pepper native to China? Later, I checked the information, and at the beginning of the introduction, it said: pepper, also called pepper... I know that I don’t need to research it later.Pepper, the name shows that it is imported from abroad: pepper, tomato, sweet potato, and melon. Our ancestors are smarter than modern people, and treat objective things with one thing and two things, unlike modern people who like to talk nonsense, learning is to keep improving.I remember that in the past, the Chinese took materials with foreign names: matches, foreign oil, cement, foreign nails, foreign picks, foreign iron barrels... all of them were captured and renamed: matches, kerosene, cement, iron nails, pickaxes, and thin iron barrels.The advantage of such a change is that there are no annoying foreign characters, and it is very happy, just like chili peppers, no one knows whether they are imported products or local originals.The name-changing campaign was conducted under the strange title: Against Worship of Foreign Countries.

When I was eating chili, I thought about it: did my ancestors worship foreigners?No.In the era of our ancestors, there were no foreigners. It was only in the middle and modern times that foreigners became more developed. Maybe when our ancestors named foreign things, they simply followed the old method of the past. : Matches, kerosene... If they are placed now, why don't they do something awkward about "cloning" or "picking machines"?In all fairness, the name change campaign was carried out in a completely inferior psychological environment. Hu Fanyi Yangxi... These five names are all for things that are not original to our tribe. Hufu, pepper, and carrot are the names of foreign things in ancient times.After Hu, it was called Fan, after Fan it was Yi, after Yi it was Yang, and after Yang it was Xi.Can it be said that it worships Hu and flatters foreigners?Adoring fans and fawning on others?Is it obsessive?At that time, I didn't think so at all.It is said that the Han people used to wear long shirts, but later it was inconvenient to fight and work, so they imitated the Hu people to wear short shirts.This kind of way of life is better, if there is something good, take it immediately, what is the difference between Chinese and foreign!The naming method of the ancestors saves a lot of things for future generations to learn. For example, pepper is a foreign product at first glance. If it is changed to fragrant pepper or Oriental pepper, it will take a lot of trouble to verify.

In fact, Yuan was defeated by Ming, that is, he changed his clothes.It was much more convenient for the Han people to wear the Hu clothes of the Hu people. After Yuan picked up the long gowns of the Han people, things went from bad to worse.The mystery of the local replacement is still puzzling. Anyway, as soon as the reforms started in the 1980s, the Chinese immediately began to wear suits, and as soon as the Chinese wore other people’s clothes, they immediately changed. The Chinese changed from the outside to the inside. .Xi is a neutral modifier for imported products after Yang, which refers to but does not contain foreign ingredients: suits, watermelons, Western food, tomatoes...the mentality is much more balanced, and it is more pleasing to the eye than Western clothes, pumpkins, foreign meals, and tomatoes .

From hot peppers to hot peppers, it shows the extent to which hot peppers have penetrated into secular life. Perhaps today, everyone hopes that it is native to China rather than imported, not from Chile or Mexico. After the 1990s, the introduction of peppers has not stopped. Israeli peppers and Dutch peppers have been introduced in large quantities by Chinese farmers. Now there is a kind of colorful pepper that is an imported product. I tasted it in Shouguang, Shandong. It has purple, yellow, white, green Wait, it's not spicy anymore, only the green flavor of chili, eating it like fruit.

I hope that the plants introduced from outside will still be named with the word "Fan", or you can choose a name from the wild plants. For example, the five-colored peppers are named Zijiao and Huangjiao... Always a bit more precise than bell peppers.It is also possible to use the Western character series. In short, it is not advocating foreigners, but a classification of names, which is wary of imported products, such as the Thai pepper fly, which is a terrible pest of peppers and defines the origin of Thai peppers. Identity is very important.It is better to distinguish between Chinese and foreign organisms, and of course it is not necessary to change the pepper back to the pepper.