Three minutes to talk about culture
When it comes to lychees, we will think of the famous poem of the Tang Dynasty poet Du Mu, "When the concubine laughs on the red dust, no one knows that it is a lychee".
Some people have verified that the lychees that traveled thousands of miles through the post road and were sent to the Tang Dynasty court were from the "Tribute Garden" in Maoming City, Guangdong Province.
I saw in the introduction that there was no ice in the folk at that time, so how to keep lychees fresh?It turned out to be soaked in well water with a bamboo tube, and then the lychees were loaded into it and sent to Chang'an as soon as possible. So, in fact, it was not very new when I arrived.
Gongyuan is located in Genzi Town, Gaozhou City, "Lixiang", is the oldest existing Liyuan in western Guangdong, formed in the Sui and Tang dynasties, there are 39 old lychee trees in the garden that are more than 500 years old, and the oldest tree is 1380 years old, known as the "Lychee Museum".
In these ancient lychee trees, we can see the traces of time and the stories of time.
The heads and branches of the trees were covered with knots, some were covered with moss, and some of the centers were empty.
What's even more surprising is that some of the stones that used to support the lychee tree actually grew into the tree, and how long it will take.
Go here and listen to the legend of Yang Guifei eating lychees.