A folk legend:

Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty once went to the south of the Yangtze River and passed by Songyang. It happened that there was a severe drought in Songyang that year, and almost no crops were harvested. The county magistrate of Songyang did not Qianlong was served rice, so he had to get some big radishes to satisfy his hunger.

Most of the radishes in Songyang grow in the sandy soil. They are juicy and delicious, sweet and sour, sour and spicy. Emperor Qianlong, who was used to eating delicacies from mountains and seas, tasted radish for the first time and his appetite was whetted. Ask the magistrate of Songyang County, what is this? The county magistrate did not dare to answer truthfully. Who dared to feed the emperor a radish? After all, radishes were so common that ordinary people would not use them when entertaining guests.

The county magistrate was quick to respond and replied, "This is the Congyang Dashali pear."

After Emperor Qianlong returned to the capital, he remembered it once and asked the chef to get some Songyang Dashali for him to eat.

When the chef heard this, he said to himself, "I have never heard of Songyang Dashali. Aren't pears from Dangshan famous?" He asked someone to hurry up and transport the pears from Dangshan.

After eating it, Emperor Qianlong felt that the taste was not right and said that the chef was cheating him, so he killed the chef.

Another chef was replaced. This chef didn't believe that the Dashali pears in Songyang were delicious, so he sent someone to get the pears from somewhere in Guangxi, so the chef asked Qianlong to kill them. This time, Emperor Qianlong killed four chefs.

The fifth chef was a young man. He learned from the lessons of the previous chefs and secretly sent someone to ask the Songyang County Magistrate what he gave Long live the Lord to eat last time. Once, the county magistrate did not lie and said that the radish he ate was local radish from Songyang.

So this time Qianlong finally tasted the real Songyang radish. Qianlong said with emotion that this is the real Songyang Dasha pear.

The young chef knelt down and said, Long live, this is not the Songyang Dashali, this is the Songyang Big Radish.

So Emperor Qianlong opened his mouth and said, "Songyang big radish!" Since then, Songyang Big Radish has become famous all over the world.

A joke:

In ancient times, a businessman from Songyang County made a fool of himself and got acquainted with a businessman from Xi'an. They traveled to Xuanwu Lake in Nanjing and saw the beautiful scenery of a foreign country. 2 People can't help but praise their hometown.

In vain, he said: Our hometown has a high bridge, and there is a Xianyang Bridge. I was crossing this bridge that time, and accidentally dropped one of my shoes. A month later, I crossed the bridge again. When I looked down, I saw that the shoe had fallen into the water!

I then said nonsense: The radishes in our hometown are so big! That year Cao Cao led a million-strong army down to the south of the Yangtze River. When they arrived at the border of Songyang, the people had no food and the horses had no grass, so they had to set up camp on the spot. At that time, the 7749th generation ancestor of my family pulled a radish from the ground. The people ate the radish core and the horses ate the radish. Ye, Cao Cao and his million-strong army ate for three months before leaving half of it on the river bank. Now every time there is a flood, dried radish and radish leaves are floating on the river bank! < /p>

Listening in vain, I opened my mouth and couldn’t close it.

Later, the word "Zongyang Big Radish" spread from person to person.