Litchi origin

Through the ages, the documents involving lychee is the earliest record of many of the han dynasty "LinFu", "foreign" volunteer "and jin south of vegetation shape. [2] "litchi" two words from west ham, and cultivated in qin han, tang began bowls. The ancient name, meaning "from the branches from branches ready-to-use" or "not from its this branch".

Origin dispute

About litchi come from, the academic circles has highly contentious.

"HouHanShu · and emperor han yuan xing" account: first, "the old south

Litchi painting
The sea, miles a sacrifice longan lychee five buy, a hou, the pentium resistance risk, the dead following the road "ZhangJiuLing. Tang dynasty the book prime litchi fu preface of praise nanhai litchi:" nanhai county, each to how the lychee is ripe, summer, actually what Joan deception, taste (especially GanZi, 100 fruit in, no comparable... "YangFeiGui. Nanhai litchi delicious, pet good at MinLi, eosinophilic, emperor xuanzong ennui ridge nantes for, make yi horse feichi transfer capital, hence into northern verdict. Ed the historical everybody sima guang ZiZhiTongJian" : "princess live team to life, libo age incur lingnan chi yi, than to changan, SeWei unchanged" (", TangJi 31.it sigh of five load "). The

Tang dynasty poet bai juyi, once RenZhongZhou (now chongqing zhongxian), bai officials in the lychee figure preface of bashan, said: "litchi born between summer...... isthmic Zeng shell as red, membrane, such as the purple tough ilk, white as snow; meat jade-like stone feels ashamed, grout sweet as from the branches of tyrosine... if, one day and color change, 2nd, 3rd and variable and sweet taste change, four 5 as the subject." to venues If ShiShi YangFei lychee produced in lingnan (about refers to this guangdong, guangxi), then there were four or five from enterprise, thousands of miles away YiChuan is developed, even in tang dynasty, because YangFei more acceleration, day, did not exceed but rejects 669. So lingnan litchi arrived in changan, broken cannot remain fresh.

The historical materials, by the imperial tribute lychee for throughout the Fu lingnan and producing area, a state (bits of this chongqing northeast) two said. More people means the han dynasty, and the middle of lingnan after people have said Fu states since. Perhaps this is YangFei depend on is bestowed favor on day long, provoked unprecedented resentment, so far, intentionally refers to say with evil name.

The northern song dynasty su dongpo lychee sigh "forever" cloud: "to pay $state, litchi Fu take SuiGong tianbao. Nslizhi. Com" CaiXiang the lychee spectrum "northern truth" TangTianBao, princess Fu states, especially love eosinophilic age to "life yi. From the historical data concerned, of course should primitiveness tang said, and han dynasty also have records of lingnan contribution. But from the Angle of litchi fresh look, it could never again. Conversely, if the neighbours enterprise from Fu state fly yi ba to Beijing, is more reasonable and feasible. Especially because Yang youth in history, the life of ba says it "was born in patch, good food litchi" shu. Then her early favorite fruit is more likely in the local. Nslizhi. Com textual research products, originally Fu states ba for YangFei and early lychees, FanChengDa famous poets of the gold garden "small sequence said:" fuling son (branches), libo, to state that's miles gondola all this garden." FanShi wu ship record "rolls" Fu states "bar and detailed explain a way:" since eyebrow jia so far, all with Fu produced litchi, tang as gong, Yang state that is too true to state miles, eosinophils, princess garden." The chariot to the JiSheng "observation" Fu states sites "is written:" princess in the state of west, garden city of five, ten to more than 100 strains, litchi TangYangFei fat fat, which stars in it."

People still further textual research out, the exact origin Fu state litchi, should be apart from giving a hundred miles northwest of joy county. From north TangJing, a distance of about 2 miles, is only about half the lingnan to changan journey. Local chorography records, "YangFei eosinophilic born litchi, fabricated by Nevada since fuling, describe the radial tire, take xixiang, only three days, to enterprise valley, color has not changed." sweet rig That is, from fuling reach county, yi horse take xixiang county, into the radial valley to changan, can arrive within three days, litchi can completely stale.

Republic of the twentieth century, the humanities, the atlas of sichuan province, according to drawing "by the ShuJiang ChangShouXian north, northeast car by mat jiang tao, liangshan, open jiang (namely XinNing), XuanHan, north Vietnamese bashan to radial town; And in the 21st century at the beginning of the map, also impressively identified.and the longevity, mat river with, and to liangping north as open a colonial-style ochre Yellow River and DaXian highway. This road is followed by the reception LiangShanZhi tianbao litchi way music YiChuan route

"Litchi" origin

Someone says lychee is approaches "litchi" this word is not loan words, ancient Chinese have already been "litchi" this word, the song dynasty CaiXiang "litchi spectrum" (1509) is the earliest litchi monographs.