When will the latest sweet potato enter China?
Sweet potato, also known as sweet potato, etc., is an annual herb of the family Spirulaceae, which is rich in protein, starch, pectin, cellulose, amino acids, vitamins and a variety of minerals, and is known as "longevity food". But the origin of sweet potato is not China, let's take a look at when sweet potatoes enter China!
When will sweet potatoes enter China?
Sweet potatoes originated in Mexico and tropical America from Colombia, Ecuador to Peru. Sweet potatoes were widely cultivated in Spain in the early 16th century. Spanish sailors brought sweet potatoes to Manila and Moluca in the Philippines, and then spread to other parts of Asia. Sweet potato was introduced into China at the end of the 16th century, introduced into Fujian and Guangdong from Nanyang, and then spread to the Yangtze River, Yellow River basin and Taiwan Province. nowadays, the planting area and total output of sweet potato in China rank first in the world.
Where is the origin of sweet potatoes in China?
The producing areas of sweet potatoes in China are mainly distributed in Beijing, Shanxi, Shandong, Henan, Tianjin, Hebei, Northeast provinces, Inner Mongolia, Yunnan, Sichuan, Hubei, Gansu, Anhui, Fujian, Shaanxi, Hunan, Guangdong, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Hainan and other places. The main producing areas are Sixian County, Anhui Province (the hometown of Chinese yams), Hebei (Lulong, Azure Dragon), Fujian Liancheng, Henan Kaifeng, Dengzhou, Tanghe Tongzhai Pu, Shandong Sishui, Sichuan Nanchong, Yibin and other areas.
The influence of Sweet Potato introduction on China
The introduction of sweet potato improved the living conditions of Chinese people at that time and became the food on which people lived at that time. When Zheng Chenggong's fleet was trapped by the typhoon and ordered to raise grain in Penghu, the grain official told him that there were "only sweet potatoes." Since then, in the early years of Kangxi, records of planting sweet potatoes in Wenzhou, Zhejiang and Chaoshan, Guangdong have gradually emerged, but the two generations have become the main food for "people's livelihood" and "dry life" in the southeastern laterite belt.
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