你能想象没有辣椒的川菜吗?你知道今天四川人的饮食习惯居然和以印加文明为代表的安第斯地区有关系吗?

Can you imagine Sichuan cuisine without chili peppers? Do you know that the dietary habits of Sichuan people today are related to the Andean region, where the Inca civilization once ruled?

16世纪，原产于安第斯地区的辣椒、玉米、土豆被远洋航行的哥伦布等探险家的被带到了中国，而后彻底征服了中国西南地区人们的味蕾，从此四川人与安第斯人开始共享自然的馈赠。

In the 16th century, chili peppers, corn, and potatoes native to the Andean region were brought to China through the oceangoing voyages of explorers such as Columbus, and then completely captured the taste buds of the people from SW China. Since then, Sichuan people and Andean people have shared a love for these gifts of nature.

而味蕾的碰撞，仅是两地古文明各种奇妙相似性的微小缩影。古蜀与印加，跨越时空之后，可以“对话”的地方还有很多……

However, this shared love for all things spicy is only one small example of the various wonderful similarities between the ancient civilizations of the two regions. The ancient Shu civilization and Inca civilization, after crossing time and space, still have many more ‘exchanges’ that can be made.