The "Laiqin" that the calligraphy sage Wang Xizhi loved to eat is a kind of sand fruit, which is one of the varieties of fruit. This kind of fruit is very rare. Not only that, the Laiqin fruit tree is also very difficult to grow. It is estimated that in In modern times, it is difficult to know about this fruit, and there are very few exotic fruit trees left. However, it is said that some exotic fruit trees still exist in Sichuan.
"Laiqin" is also called "honey fruit", but what kind of fruit it is is currently unknown. There is not much information available about this tree, but we still need to use the only information to understand why the calligraphy sage Wang Xizhi loved to eat "laigu". Perhaps it is precisely because this tree is so rare that it was loved by Wang Xizhi.
The ancients said: "This fruit is very sweet. You can go to the forest and taste this fruit." But now it is difficult to know exactly what fruit it is. We can only appreciate this ancient fruit through the descriptions of people from the past. You can also learn what this tree looks like from the "Ringo" painting.
In fact, Wang Xizhi did not only love one kind of fruit, but also loved growing fruit trees. From historical records, we can understand that Wang Xizhi, a fruit-loving person, not only planted common fruit trees in the area, but also planted fruit trees. Efforts have been made to cultivate and transplant the best fruit tree seedlings in the world.
Once, he wrote to his old friend the governor of Yizhou, hoping that this old friend could find some rare fruit trees from Yizhou and give them to Wang Xizhi to plant, so that he could know what Wang Xizhi was. I love growing fruit trees so much, and I should have done quite a bit of research on this aspect.
Finally, everyone knows something about the "Laiqin" fruit that the calligraphy sage Wang Xizhi loved to eat. If you are also interested in this aspect, you may wish to read more about Wang Xizhi's planting in ancient books. There should be many records about fruit trees.