The historical story of Lingnan lychee, the origin and historical background of lychee

Lychee is indeed native to China, and the English is made with the Cantonese homonym of lychee, and the original name of lychee is Lizhi, because it changes color one day after picking, two days of incense, and three days of flavor becomes famous. This means that the fruit deteriorates very quickly after leaving the branches.

Although the name Lizhi is vivid and vivid, in Chinese cultural consciousness, Lizhi is similar to Bieli, which is unlucky, and later people changed the name to Lychee.

The age of lychee: The history of lychee cultivation and use in China can be traced back to the Han Dynasty more than 2,000 years ago.

The origin of lychee: The earliest literature about lychee is Sima Xiangru's "Shanglin Fu" in the Western Han Dynasty, which is written as "Lizhi", and about the beginning of the Eastern Han Dynasty, "Lizhi" is written as "Lizhi".

Chinese lychees are mainly distributed at 18-29 degrees north latitude. Guangdong has the most arable land, followed by Fujian and Guangxi. It is also cultivated in small quantities in Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou and Taiwan.

It is also cultivated in Southeast Asia, and its introduction has been recorded in Africa, the Americas, and Oceania. Lychee trees prefer heat, humidity, and sunlight.

Its genetics require relatively low temperatures during flower bud differentiation, but the lowest temperature is between minus 2 and minus 4 degrees Celsius to suffer frost damage. During the flowering period, sunny and warm weather is most favourable when there is no dry heat, humidity is too low, rain is continuous, hot and dry weather or strong north winds are not conducive to pollination. Severe weather during the flowering and fruiting period can lead to the fall of flowers and fruits, and even cause a poor harvest.

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According to records, lychee is called "Ouli", which is a unique tree fruit in southern China. In the pre-Qin period, lychee became a valuable fruit. During the Southern Dynasties, lychees were already a fruit in the court.

The Tang Dynasty poet Du Fu also wrote in a poem "Qixi Festival": "The silver man is unshakable, and the jade wheel is like snow." The lychee is just red and green, and the pomegranate flowers are being revealed.

You can see how delicious and precious lychees are.

According to legend, during the Ming Dynasty, there was a singer named Red Line, and at a concert, the audience offered her lychees. After eating the red line, he felt very sweet, so he took the core, toasted the audience leader, and looked up at the moon in the sky, and said: "The moonlight is very orange tonight, and the seven fairies must be picking lychees on the top of the fox fairy mountain now."

I never thought that as soon as the red line voice fell, the social fire sounded and went to the mountain. Later, when I looked for the red line, there were only lychee trees, and the red line had already flown into the air.

The above historical allusions are in the literature and folklore that have been handed down to this day.

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