Tomato as a vegetable was popularized in China is a very late thing, only about a hundred years of history. Tomato was introduced into China in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty and spread to several areas, but it was not widely cultivated, or used for ornamental or medicinal purposes, and the name was unified, namely "Six Yue Persimmon" or "Pan persimmon", of which "pan persimmon" in the process of transmission has produced "Xifan Persimmon", "pan persimmon", "Western persimmon", "Xifan Persimmon" and other different variants. At present, the earliest known record of this alien species is the poem "Six Moon Persimmon" and the short preface written by Guo Zizang when he was governor of Guizhou during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. In the mid-19th century, the name "persimmon" appeared in Zhejiang.