Apples can be found everywhere on the table today and are one of the most beloved fruits.
And people like it not only because it is sweet and crisp and rich in nutrients, but also because its price is also acceptable to ordinary people, although it is not good and cheap, but it is definitely worth the money. Otherwise, it will not occupy the top spot in the fruit industry all year round, allowing the public to buy back indefinitely.
Apples also have thousands of years of cultivation history in Chinese history, just as China had a variety of titles such as "Central Plains" and "Huaxia" in ancient times, apples were not actually called "apples" in ancient times, but had another aesthetic name.
It is said that this beautiful name is still used in Japan today, do you know what it is called?
Apple's aesthetic old name
The ancient people believed that the taste of apples was sweet and delicious, not only the public liked, but also those birds and animals. They look at the ruddy and fat apples on the branches, and they can't help but fly to the branches to seize this sweet fruit, so another aesthetic nickname of the apple is called "Lin Zhen".
At first glance, this sounds like a human name, but if you think about the deep meaning of it, you can see why Apple has such a name.
According to the earliest history dating back to the Han Dynasty period, it was found that the ancient people at that time had records about Lin Zhen,
"Lin Gong, like a red chestnut, is also known as black bird, also known as lai bird." The taste is sweet, and the cooked bird also comes. ”
The origin of this sentence about Lin's name comes from the Han Dynasty's history book Guangzhi.
At this time, the forest is an apple in a broad sense, and plants such as sand fruits and begonias can be called forest trees.
At the beginning of ancient times, apples did not go through today's grafting and cultivation technology, very sour, the public basically will not eat such fruits, so at that time the use of apples was to make spices or use in Traditional Chinese medicine as a medicine introduction.
It is reported that the medical scientist Li Shizhen once put apples into medicine.
Apple is also called "柰"
More than two thousand years ago, during the Western Han Dynasty, the folk already had the figure of apples, but the apples at that time were called "柰", and people now basically have not heard of this name.
Although the age is old, you can still see the records of apples in ancient history.
In the famous literary artist Sima Xiangru's "Shanglin Fu", there is such a sentence as "loquat persimmon, pavilion oak thick and simple...", the whole sentence focuses on depicting the refreshing and delicious fruits of the Han Wudi period, which mentions loquat, persimmon and apple.
It is worth mentioning that apple also has a nickname in the Buddhist scriptures called "apple fruit", which is transliterated from the Sanskrit word bimba in the scriptures.
Later, the apples in the ancient western region were introduced to China, and the word "apple" was a traditional character for "ping", which was also changed to apples since then, implying peace and security.
The introduction of Apple
Of course, the apple we eat today is not a variety of apples from the ancient "Katsuki" period, and the improved apples we eat today are actually transmitted from Europe in the nineteenth century.
Due to the continuous exchanges between ancient China and the outside world, whether it is culture, agricultural products, fruits and other foods, they have also been exchanged with each other under certain conditions.
Apple spread to Xinjiang, China, and then slowly spread over time to various provinces in China.
Although the apples we eat now are transmitted from the West, and the public generally believes that the earliest apples planted in China came to our Central Plains from Europe through the Silk Road, in fact, the cultivation and grafting technology of apples has been recorded in the ancient Ming Dynasty on the mainland.
"Apple, out of the north, Yan Zhao is especially good, take the Lin Body."
From the Ming Dynasty Wanli Dynasty books on fruit records, the "receiving forest body" refers to the ancient early apple grafting technology.
The historical origins of Hayashi and Japan
So how did Apple get to Japan? In many parts of Japan today, why is the title "Hayashi" still used to refer to apples?
In ancient times, the Lin Gong of Japan was passed down from China.
During the Tang Dynasty, China's national strength reached its peak, economic development, technological progress, political civilization, cultural prosperity, and the people living at that time were undoubtedly happy.
Although it was not as carefree as the powerful nobles, in the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, the people at that time did not taste the pain of war, and were already better than the vast majority of the people at the bottom.
The glorious prosperity of the Tang Dynasty attracted many outsiders to worship in the Central Plains, not only to appreciate the culture, but most importantly, to feel the style of a big country.
Among those who came to China to worship included Japan, when many Japanese people loved Tang Dynasty culture, traveled thousands of miles across the ocean to learn Tang Dynasty culture, and the Japanese envoys who came to China ate the delicacy of Lin Zhen, and then brought it back to Japan to grow, and the old name of apples has always been used in Japan.