校报编辑听说我是四川人,谈起吃辣椒又那么内行,便约我写一篇关于辣椒的文章,我不揣冒昧地答应了。然而,吃辣椒我是内行,写辣椒却纯属门外汉了。到图书馆查了些资料,竟意外地发现辣椒的祖籍不是中国,而是南美洲热带地区,大约明朝才传入我国,至今我国有些地方还把辣椒叫做番椒。吃了十几年的辣椒,竟不知辣椒是舶来品,真 I heard a newspaper editor I was Sichuan, talk about eating peppers and so knowledgeable, they asked me to write an article about pepper, I do not believe it. However, I eat pepper, while writing pepper is purely a layman. Check the library to some of the information, unexpectedly discovered that the ancestral home of chili is not China, but the tropical regions of South America, about the Ming Dynasty was introduced into our country, so far in some places in our country pepper also called pepper. Ate ten years of pepper, actually do not know is the exotic pepper, really