Ginger has been cultivated in China since ancient times. For example, in the Warring States tombs in jiangling county, Hubei Province, fragments of ginger were unearthed, indicating that ginger was used as a funerary object during the Warring States period. There is also a piece of ginger unearthed from the radish bay tomb in Guigang, Guangxi (early Western Han Dynasty). Only archaeological remains can prove that China has a long history of planting ginger. In Historical Records written by Sima Qian in the Western Han Dynasty, there is a description of "thousands of households with thousands of beds of ginger and leeks", which shows that if someone planted thousands of beds of ginger at that time, he was equivalent to a marquis and thousands of farmers paid rent for him. Therefore, as early as 2000 years ago, ginger has become an important cash crop. Since then, the cultivation techniques and sales of ginger have been described in detail in Qi Shu (Northern Wei Dynasty), Lu Shu (Song Dynasty) and Wang Zhennong Shu (Yuan Dynasty). It can be seen that with the development of society, ginger production is also developing.
In China, ginger has been abundant in the south since ancient times. In the Northern Song Dynasty, Su Song once said that "ginger is better in Korean Chizhou" (Hanzhou is Chengdu, Sichuan, Wenzhou is Wenzhou, Zhejiang, and Chizhou is now Guichi in southern Anhui). It was not until the late Ming Dynasty that ginger was planted in the north, and it was not until the Qing Dynasty that ginger was introduced to the north on a large scale.