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Fruits in Chinese paintings: Cool off the heat and satisfy your cravings, salivating!

**| Mulberry |** Mulberry is the fruit of the mulberry tree, and there are many other names, such as mulberry fruit, mulberry fruit, mulberry date, mulberry and so on. Dating back more than 2,000 years, mulberry has become a nourishing product for the imperial family of ancient Chinese emperors. "The mulberry has not fallen, and its Ye Woruo. Yu groaning, no mulberries. This is a famous sentence in the "Book of Songs· Weifeng · Hooligans", which is the first appearance of mulberry in the field of literature.

Because people planted mulberry trees and catalpa trees in the past, the word "mulberry" became synonymous with the hometown, and there was also an ideal statement in "Mencius" that "a house of five acres, a mulberry tree, and fifty people can be clothed".

In the Han Le Mansion, there are such wonderful verses as "Luo Fu likes silkworms, and picks mulberry in the south corner of the city"; In the Song Dynasty, the word "picking mulberries" shows a romantic style.

**| Cherry |** When the cherry is ripe, the color is bright red and bright, the appearance is exquisite, the taste is delicious and delicate, and the nutrition is extremely rich. In the field of medicine, there are many records of the medicinal value of cherries: "cherries are sweet and astringent, can regulate the middle and invigorate qi, and can beautify the face and aesthetically aspirate if you eat more." The literati of the past generations did not hesitate to praise cherries and wrote many arias. "The streamer is easy to throw people, red cherries, green plantains." The poets of the Tang and Song dynasties even used "cherry fan plain mouth, willow small waist" to depict the graceful demeanor of women.

**| Hawthorn |** Hawthorn, also known as mountain fruit, mountain red. Its core is hard, the flesh is thin, and the taste is slightly sour. Hawthorn can be eaten raw, can also be made into preserved fruit cake, and can also be used as medicine after drying. In the life of the Song people, hawthorn was quite common. Lu You wrote in the poem "Travel": "The road goes all the way into the valley, and the donkey is tied to the savage's house. The mountain boy bears the burden of selling red fruits, and the village girl picks green flowers on the fence. ”

**| Pomegranate |** The fruit of the pomegranate is like a brilliant red gemstone, the fruit is sweet and sour, juicy, and has a pleasant taste. In China, the pomegranate is regarded as a mascot, symbolizing fertility and good fortune. The ancients once said that pomegranates "have the same membrane in a thousand rooms, and a thousand sons are like one". When people hold weddings, pomegranates that have their peels cut and berries are often placed in the new house or other places, and pomegranates are also used to give gifts to each other as blessings. Pomegranate was also a common fruit for the Song people. Yang Wanli once wrote a poem "Pomegranate" and said: "The fog is made of room beads and bones, and the water essence is made of jade and pulp." Because of the abundance of pomegranate seeds, it often appears in paintings as an allegorical meaning of "many sons and many blessings".

**| Apple |** The skin of apples is moderately thin, and the flesh is sweet and sour. In China, its cultivation history is more than 2,000 years, and it is said that the "purple persimfera" eaten by Xia Yu is a red apple. Although apples are a fruit variety introduced from foreign countries, they were introduced very early. In the Song Dynasty, people have already tasted the delicacy of apples. The fruit painted in Lin Chun's "Picture of Ripe Fruit and Birds" in the Southern Song Dynasty is actually an apple.

**| Citrus |** China is one of the important origins of citrus, with a history of more than 4,000 years of cultivation. After a long period of cultivation and selection, citrus has become a precious fruit for human beings. The fruit is usually oblate to nearly spherical, with either thin and smooth skin or thick and coarse. Ranging in colour from pale yellow, vermilion to crimson, the scoop has 7 to 14 petals, and is tender or tough, juicy and sour, sweet, bitter or peculiar.

Citrus varieties are rich and diverse, and the "Tangerine Record" written by Han Yanzhi of the Song Dynasty divides citrus into three categories: mandarin orange, orange and orange, and a number of varieties are subdivided under each category. Among them, "milk orange pushes the first", and among milk oranges, "pushes mud mountain for the most".