Apples are extremely common and affordable, and are available in almost every fruit store, and it's no exaggeration to say that if you don't sell apples, you're embarrassed to open a store.
Apples are crisp and juicy, rich in vitamins, and have a different kind of use than just being eaten.
It is said that the Empress Dowager Cixi of the late Qing Dynasty, who covered the sky with one hand, was very partial to apples, and consumed nearly 160,000 apples a year, if calculated according to 200 grams of each apple, it is almost more than 30,000 kilograms.
It is unimaginable that Cixi used more than 400 grams of apples a day, which shows the degree of luxury.
It is true that Cixi likes apples, but they are not mainly used to eat, but to act as "aromatherapy".
As we all know, apples have their own fragrance, and the palace is large and wide, so in order to make the taste conform to the temperament of Cixi, all the halls of the dormitory are full of apples.
Of course, the apple that Cixi favors is not as simple as we imagined, even if it has a historical origin, the ancient and modern names are not the same, and Japan has been used to this day.
Apples can be traced back to the Western Han Dynasty
This is not groundless, there are relevant documents, in the Western Han Dynasty more than 2,000 years ago, the well-known scholar and famous writer Sima Xiangru once described the apple in "Shanglin Fu".
"Loquat persimmon, pavilion magnolia"
The word "柰" does not refer to apples, which is the first time that apples are mentioned in the transcript.
Nai refers to the mutated plum, the ancients did not name the fruit separately, and the plum class is called nai.
But with the change of history and the migration of dynasties, Apple's name has also changed.
By the time of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Apple also had a new name "Ringo".
I have to admit that the ancients were very accomplished in choosing names, and they have always been very concrete.
"The fruit is ripe, and the birds are circling in the forest and scrambling. ”
Even the birds can't help but eat it, so you can imagine how delicious "Ringo" is.
Ringo is still used in Japan to this day
Apple is no longer called "Ringo" in China, but many places in Japan have been using this name, and the back of it can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty.
Throughout history, the Tang Dynasty was given the title of Heavenly Kingdom and attracted all nations, including the "Wa Kingdom", which is now Japan.
At that time, there was a lot of trade between the Tang Dynasty and Japan, and many customs and daily necessities were brought to Japan, and "Ringo" came to Japan at this time to "settle down".
Yes, at that time, Japan regarded the Tang Dynasty as a big brother, and I wanted to have what the big brother had, and they had to move back when the Tang Dynasty was prevalent, and they were very respectful of the words of the big brother and some cultural beliefs.
As a small country, Japan admires the strength of the Tang Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty is extremely admired, even after Apple was popularized in Japan, it has always appointed the name "Ringo".
However, at that time, apples were after all rare goods brought from the Heavenly Empire, and ordinary people were naturally unblessed, and only those princes and nobles with a certain social status were eligible to enjoy them.
But the Tang Dynasty has been more than a thousand years ago, and it is not only the dynasties that have changed, but also the products left by the old era.
We have long since replaced apples with "Ringo", but in Japan, it has not changed.
Why is "Ringo" called an apple?
In fact, the apples we eat today are not the same variety as "ringo", which is a local fruit with a small body and a red body.
Apples are large and round, and there are many differences in taste, the former is good but a little sour, and the apple is sweet and delicious.
In today's Shaanxi, there are other places where there are ringo, and apples are passed from Europe, and after generations of fruit growers have improved and cultivated them, so that we have today's big and sweet apples.
It is also interesting about the origin of Apple's name.
At first, it was derived from the Sanskrit word in Buddhist scriptures, transliterated as "apple", and later after the simplification of traditional Chinese characters, it became today's apple.
Cultural dissemination and cultural preservation
Whether it is a person or a country, it is all Muqiang, and China is a great country for 5,000 years and has a profound history and cultural heritage.
Many domestic festivals and texts have been transmitted to other countries, and it is no exaggeration to say that Chinese culture is to a certain extent the cultural enlightenment of South Korea and Japan.
It is okay to learn culture, but it is shameful to plagiarize or even take it for yourself.
Japan and South Korea have appropriated our culture and tried to confuse the public to become their own, especially South Korea, which wants to grab everything.
Even the elements of Chinese history, such as the Spring Festival, lion dance, and Hanzi, they also want to get involved.
And the funny thing is that they can't even understand the basic allusions and the role of the Spring Festival couplets.
China's lion dance is colorful and profound, and the Korean lion dance is white, and it looks like a funeral.
What's even more ridiculous is the tattoo on the face, and the Korean TV series is even more ridiculous.
As we all know, in ancient China, only exiled sinners would have tattoos on their bodies, which was a symbol of criminals, and they were inferior when they went out.
Korean netizens wrote Chinese characters on their faces, and it was regarded as a trend, which I really dare not agree with.
Facts have proved that without cultural heritage, even if it is copied to some details, the real deeper things flowing in the bones of Chinese cannot be copied.