Were there any tomatoes in ancient China?

Traditionally, tomatoes are only eaten as vegetables and fruits, which was first started by Europeans in the19th century. Only in the Guangxu period of the late Qing Dynasty, in the name of edible, better edible varieties were selected and introduced to China. Before that, tomatoes were just ornamental plants in China. The earliest record of tomato can be found in Plant Products written by Zhao Han in Ming Dynasty (16 17). Zhao Han mentioned in his book that tomatoes were brought to China by western missionaries with sunflowers during the Wanli period. 162 1 year, Wang's "Qunfangpu" once again affirmed the origin of tomatoes, and people in later generations did not believe it until 1983. 1around the middle of July, 983, nearly 60 pieces of pottery, lacquerware, rattan barnyard grass and bamboo barnyard grass were unearthed in the ancient tomb of the Western Han Dynasty excavated in Fenghuang Mountain in the northern suburb of Chengdu, and food remains such as rice grains, fruits and animal bones were found. The rice grains are attached to the bamboo barnyard grass. In order to keep a certain humidity, the digger covered rattan and bamboo with wet cloth and transported them to the warehouse of the cultural relics protection institute for preservation. Strange things have happened. After more than ten days, people were surprised to find that plant buds had grown inside and outside the bamboo barnyard. In order to find out the details of this plant, archaeologists invited experts from Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Chengdu Branch of China Academy of Sciences to study it. But the experts couldn't draw a conclusion at that time, so they decided to take the germinated seeds back for cultivation. At the same time, the Cultural Management Institute also left more than a dozen plants for further observation. Vegetable experts from Chengdu Academy of Agricultural Sciences divided the transferred germinated seeds into four pots and cultivated them in the greenhouse. Seven months later, on February 24th, 1984, all the plants blossomed and bore fruit on the same day, and * * * harvested 34 fruits in the shape of little red eggs, which were identified as tomatoes! Later, the seeds were planted in the open space. In the first ten days of 1985+ 1, three small tomatoes matured. The researchers continued to cultivate it in a large area in the next few years, and found that the growth law of this small tomato is different from that of modern tomatoes: first, it can grow and bear fruit through cutting; Second, it can blossom and bear fruit in cold winter. After summarizing the excavation site environment and academic debates, archaeologists determined that the tomb owner used this small tomato as a vegetable or fruit in the Western Han Dynasty 2 100 years ago. Experts further concluded that the small tomato in the Western Han Dynasty had cultivation characteristics. In this way, the history of tomato eating and cultivation is advanced 1700 years. The discovery of tomatoes in the Western Han Dynasty opened up new ideas for paleobotanists and vegetable experts in China. They began to look for the descendants of China's distant ancestors in the mountainous areas of Yunnan, Sichuan and Guangxi, and later found several "small sour fruits" more primitive than tomatoes in the Western Han Dynasty (this kind of small tomato was also found in Jiuzhaigou area). Experts from Shanxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences specially planted wild tomatoes found in Guangxi on a large scale.