Why are all Hunan dishes so spicy?

The most important feature of Hunan cuisine is its spiciness.

Chili pepper is cheap and tasty, it is the first choice for "sending rice", and it has become the most affordable vegetable for farmers, which also promotes its promotion in Hunan, and chili pepper has really found its "second hometown" in Hunan.

Three hundred years of history of eating spicy heritage, so that Hunan people and chili peppers have formed a deep affection. As Hunan people, no matter how old or young, chili peppers are indispensable on the table. Hunan cuisine is about "flavor", sometimes it is about this "spicy flavor", without the spicy flavor, it is tasteless. Of course, Hunan cuisine highlights the fresh and spicy and hot and sour, cover the flavor without grabbing the flavor, clear, thick, light, heavy layers, sour and not vinegar, spicy authentic.