In ancient times, it was called appleRingo, which is used in Japan.
In the kingdom of fruits, the king is none other than apples. No matter when and where, apples are an indispensable existence for every household, spring, summer, autumn and winter, festivals and New Year's holidays, there are always apples to accompany them.
Apples, known as "an apple a day, disease away from me" elixir, its health and nutritional value is favored by people. However, do you know Apple's past and present life?
Let's explore the mysterious story of this delicious fruit. Whether it's the mellow taste of red Fuji or the sweet and sour golden apple, they are rich in nutrients such as dietary fiber, vitamin C and a variety of minerals.
Eating apples regularly can not only help regulate blood sugar and maintain good health, but also make you rejuvenate and achieve the effect of beauty and beauty. So, let's enjoy the deliciousness and health brought by apples together, and enjoy every moment of life!
Our country has always had"Gourmets"Almost anything that is edible, people can tap into the potential of food. Even crayfish, which are not common in other countries, have become a high-profile delicacy through people's innovation.
So, has such a delicious fruit as an apple not appeared in the history of our country? Or are apples, like tomatoes and other crops, only introduced to China in recent years?
In fact, the earliest apples can be traced back to wild apples in Central Asia, which have been cultivated for 5,000 years. In the historical records of our country, apples have been cultivated for thousands of years.
And Apple's name isn't set in stone.
Before we dive into Apple, let's think about a question. What are some of the verses about wine that remain in our memory? For example, the classic sentence "Lanling wine tulips, jade bowl with amber light", it sounds like the wine fragrance in this poem can travel through time and space, and come to the face.
The poetic aesthetics of the ancients always surpassed those of modern people, and many ordinary and even cheesy things now had an aesthetic name in ancient times.
Take a look at the changes in the names of these places, such as "Lanling" has now become "Zaozhuang", although it sounds a little different, but in fact they all retain their unique charm.
Modern place names may be less poetic and elegant, such as Nanjing was once called "Jinling", Kaifeng was once called "Bianjing", and Hefei was once called "Luzhou". Not only the name of the place, but also many vegetables and pastries have amazing names, such as Chinese cabbage used to be called "woad", edamame was once called "soybean", and steamed pastry was once called "single-cage golden soufflé".
Each name is like a poem, which makes us nostalgic for that poetic era.
Isn't this name more catchy than the previous one? I feel that the grade has improved. Do you know the apples of history? The apple we're going to talk about today also has a beautiful name.
The apples of ancient times are not the apples we know today, but the fruit called "柰", which is recorded in Sima Xiangru's "Shanglin Fu" during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and is described as one of the "pavilion magnolia".
Although ancient apples have some origins with modern apples, their shape is closer to that of small fruits, and the taste is different from today's apples.
Shanglin Yuan, 柰三, white 柫, purple 柑, green 柫. "At that time, there were many varieties of apples, and there were three colors: white, green, and red. Although apples at that time were far inferior in taste and size to today's apples, and had not yet been cultivated, they were already very delicious food at that time.
In order to save and cherish, people often make apples into preserved fruits so that they can be eaten at any time.
As Apple's popularity continues to increase, its popularity has become deeper and deeper, and it has even been used as a medicinal herb by the famous pharmacist Li Shizhen. By this time, Apple's name had changed from "柰" to "Ringo".
As for why it's called "Ringo", it's actually very simple. The fruit has a sweet taste, and when ripe, it attracts many birds in the forest to eat it, hence the name "Ringo".
The earliest record appears in the Han Dynasty's Guangzhi, which mentions that "Lin Ye, like a red persimfernant, is also known as a black bird, also known as a bird." The words are sweet, and the cooked ones are fowl. ”
The Compendium of Materia Medica also has a similar record: "This fruit is sweet and can come to the forest, so it has the name of the forest and the bird." This is where the name "Ringo" comes from.
The aesthetics of the ancients were undoubtedly excellent, and the names they chose were very beautiful. In Japan, it still follows the name of "Ringo" of Bai Juyi's "the most reminiscent of the red rotten peach on the eastern slope, the wild peach mountain apricot water ringo".
It is worth mentioning that during the Tang Dynasty, Wang Fangyan, a native of Wei County, planted a tree in the dialect of Wang, and its fruit was very delicious when ripe, with a red and white skin and a shiny skin.
He offered Tang Gaozong a fruit, Tang Gaozong tasted it and praised it, and in addition to being delighted, he rewarded Wang Fangyan as Wenlin Lang, and named this fruit "Wenlin Fruit".
The prosperity of the Tang Dynasty attracted many countries to study and exchange, especially in Japan at that time, they worshipped the oriental civilization, they introduced this fruit to Japan, and still calls it "Ringo" today.
Although Chinese apples have become exotic, their roots are still in China's Tianshan Mountains. From here, Xinjiang wild fruit and European wild fruit were differentiated, and Xinjiang wild fruit evolved into what we now have in Ringo.
Although today's apples are different from those of our ancestors, they were once tiny wild fruits and did not taste very good, so they are often used as spices.
However, after spreading, they reached the European region, and after the improvement of Western countries, they returned to China again.
In the Buddhist sutra "The Seventh Volume of the Sutra of the Heavenly King of Sound", there is a fruit called "Sulva", which originally means "figure". Through comparison, the ancients found that this kind of "Ringo" is very similar to the Ringo in China, which may be the earliest to spread from China, and later generations regarded it as the earliest prototype of the apple.
Over time, the ancient Chinese transliterated it as "Pinpo, Pinguo", and with the rapid spread and popularity of Buddhism, this title gradually became popular.
In the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, the apple was officially written into it for the first time, and since then, this name has been widely recognized. In that era of material scarcity, the appearance of apples brought the sweetness of scarcity to people's lives.
Now most of the apple varieties are imported from abroad, such as Red Fuji, Huang Marshal, Red Star, etc., the output of apples in China is also very large, the main cultivation places include Liaoning, Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong and other places.