During the reign of Emperor Xuanzong, Gao Lishi, whose ancestral home was Gaoliang (now Maoming Gaozhou), as a confidant of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty, learned that there was a kind of fruit called litchi in Gaoliang, his hometown. In order to please Yang Guifei, the envoy picked lychees from Dayuanling in Gaoliang and presented them to Yang Guifei.
Because litchi was difficult to keep fresh, fresh bamboo tubes were used to keep it moist and fresh, and the government ordered 800 express whips to be sent to the palace. Yang Guifei was overjoyed to see the bright red litchi, and later people called it concubine laughing litchi. The poem says, "No one knew it was lychee when riding a princess in the world of mortals", which not only witnessed the fact that Gao Lishi presented lychee from his hometown to Yang Guifei, but also criticized the corruption of the powerful people in the dynasty.
When Gao Lishi saw Yang Guifei's love for litchi, he was both happy and worried. The happy thing was that after Yang Guifei ate the litchi in his hometown, Gao Lishi would be doubly favored. The worry was that Gao Lishi did not expect the difficulties of litchi preservation and transportation. It is difficult to meet the number of litchi transported into the palace from Gaoliang through the post station, which is costly and costly.
In the last years of Xuanzong, the corruption of the favored "Yang family" caused national anger. At the critical moment of the imperial dynasty, Gao Lishi advised Emperor Xuanzong to order Lingnan to stop paying tribute to litchi, and suggested that the emperor grant Yang Fei death to appease the public anger. From then on, no one dared to call the litchi a concubine to laugh at litchi.
During the Hongzhi period in the late Ming Dynasty, the ancestors of Ho moved from Fujian to Baiqiao Village, Genzi, Maoming County, Gaozhou County, Guangdong Province, to start a business, and found Dayuanling, a high-quality litchi. Although the fruit size and taste were not bad, the mother tree was over 800 years old, and it was extremely old and had little fruit.
He's ancestors used the method of "circling branches" to breed new seedlings, and reclaimed and expanded the seeds in Dayuanling. Because the mother tree had few old branches and few seedlings that could be bred, they went to the surrounding mountains to find two litchi "circling branches" to breed and planted Dayuanling, covering an area of about 100 mu. Knowing that the Tang Dynasty picked lychees here to pay tribute to Yang Guifei, they called the lychee garden in Dayuanling a tribute garden.
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"As soon as I rode on the world of mortals and laughed, no one knew it was litchi." Tell the story of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty who ordered people to send litchi thousands of miles to win a smile from the imperial concubine. The full text of the original poem is:
Chang 'an looked back and embroidered in piles.
Thousands of doors open at the top of the mountain.
As soon as I ride the world of mortals and laugh,
No one knew it was litchi.
This epic poem was written by Du Mulu when he arrived in Chang 'an via Huaqing Palace, feeling that Tang Xuanzong and Yang Guifei were dissolute and misunderstood their country. Huaqing Palace used to be the amusement place of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty and Yang Guifei. According to "Biography of Yang Guifei in the New Tang Dynasty", "My concubine loves lychee, and she wants to give birth to it, so she rides it and travels thousands of miles, but her taste has not changed, and she has reached the capital".
As a result, many police officers were exhausted and the post horses fell dead on the way from Sichuan to Chang 'an. The quatrains of crossing the Qing Palace intercepted this historical fact, attacked the feudal rulers' arrogance, extravagance and ignorance, satirized the present with history and warned the monarch. However, some experts and scholars believe that the source of litchi in this paper comes from today's litchi ditch in Yibin, Sichuan.
According to legend, in order to commemorate this historical event, people renamed the local area litchi ditch. And the litchi tree of that year was protected, and today's Millennium litchi tree was created.
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