1. "Er Ya": "The soil of Wuwo, its wood is suitable for plums and plums."

2. "Lefu Poetry Collection - Ancient Rhetoric - The Line of Gentlemen": "The melon field does not hold the shoe, and the plum is not correctly crowned."

3. Southern Dynasty Liang-Shen Yao. Mai Li Poem: "Green jade crowns the western sea, and jasper stones cover the outer regions. The jade crowns the western sea, and the jasper stone covers the outer area. In the first good enough to be expensive, because of the small invitation is difficult to exceed. The color is moist and misty in Fangling, and the taste is like Zhu in cold water. I want to offer it to you, but I am still eating it and tramping around." "Peach is nourishing, apricot is injurious, and plum tree carries dead people." Plums should not be eaten.

Plums and ash: ash is plums, belonging to the Bozhou dialect. Legend has it that Laozi was born with a plum tree as his surname, so he was called Li Er, also known as Li Zi. Bozhou people taboo, that eating plums is to eat the old man, see plums ripe gray, so the plums called gray.

Lifting the dead under the plum tree

"Peaches feed people, apricots hurt people, and plums lift the dead under the tree". "Apricot injury, plum tree under the lift dead," the reason, after seeking evidence that the peach, apricot, plum, both for the summer seasonal fruits, but also for the medicine and food of the same source of traditional Chinese medicine.

Said "peach nourishment", and will be called "life peach", because the benefits of peach is well known: peach has a tonic gas, yin and Tsu, laxative effect, especially for the gas and blood deficiencies, yellow face, palpitations, shortness of breath, constipation, amenorrhea, bruises, swelling and pain, and other symptoms. The peach is especially suitable for people who have symptoms such as deficiency of qi and blood, yellow face, palpitations, shortness of breath, constipation, amenorrhea, bruises, swelling and pain.

Why said "apricot hurt" "Eating" said: "sour flavor, great heat", "can not eat, carbuncle boils, injuries to the tendons and bones". Rihuazi Materia Medica says: "Hot and poisonous. Derivation of the Materia Medica" said: "Children especially can not be eaten, eat more canker sores and diaphragmatic fever. Life practice has proved that the sour taste of apricots make people "teeth down", the teeth are not good, strong acidity on the calcium has a destructive effect on the development of children's bones may have an impact. Eating too much apricot at one time, but also can cause the evil fire inflammation, so that people nosebleed, eye mucus, rotten mouth and tongue, may also cause sores and boils, diarrhea. It is true that apricots hurt people and should not be eaten in excess. But just as the peach that nourishes people has harmful effects on people, the apricot that injures people is not without benefit, and will not be mentioned here.

Plums are harmful to the human body is also true in fact, Sun Simiao said: "Do not eat more, people are false". Diannan Materia Medica": "do not eat, damage to the spleen and stomach". With the rest of the house dietary spectrum" also has "eat more phlegm, help wet malaria, spleen deficiency, especially avoid the" words. Life has confirmed that eating more plums can make people show heat, brain swelling and other discomforts. Hair bitter and astringent flavor and into the water does not sink plums are toxic, also can not eat. Plums eat more phlegm, damage to the teeth, weak patients should eat less.