Joy on Nostr: Hmm, this is interesting. So we had bananas in China. Never heard or thought of it as ...

Hmm, this is interesting. So we had bananas in China. Never heard or thought of it as a magical thing from the West.

So, I looked it up on Baidu and Wikipedia. Of course, there are some discrepancies. China has this tendency to claim that everything originated from China. But overall, it seems that Southeast Asian is one of the biggest producers from way back. And southern part of China most likely is as well.

So, it's very curious to me that at that time period at least, South Korea did not have bananas and it's depicted as a magical thing from the West. My point is that this makes one wonder how much of even something as simple as bananas is part of history and political dynamics.