玉米是如今人们最常见不过的粮食了,其实玉米很早就成为美洲人的主要粮食作物,直到1492年哥伦布发现新大陆以后,玉米才传到旧大陆各国的。大约在明朝,玉米传入中国,而玉米在一开始就叫“玉米”吗?它的名字又是怎么来的呢?这要从慈禧太后“西狩”说起,而说到“西狩”又不得不提到西贯市村和西贯市清真寺那“贯市一夜”。 Corn is the most common food nowadays. In fact, corn has long been the staple food of the Americans. Until Columbus discovered the New World in 1492, it spread to the countries of the old continent. About the Ming Dynasty, corn was introduced into China, while corn was “corn” at the outset. How did its name come from? This is to be said from the Cixi Empress Cixi, To “West hunting” and have to mention the West Village and the city of West Sri Lanka that “consistent overnight.”