Pipa is called "Huqin" by the Central Plains people because of its appearance. The so-called "playing the lute to a cow" actually means that when the pipa reached the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, music culture prevailed and there were many musical instruments. The ancients decided to change the word "loquat" to "pipa" in order to unify its glyph with musical instruments such as Qin and Qin. Since then, pipa has been used as the name of musical instrument. At that time, because the leaves were shaped like the fruit of the musical instrument pipa, they finally got the name "loquat". As a precious delicacy, fruit loquat has been named by generations of food lovers, among which Laxiong, (Yellow) Golden Pill, Honey Pill, Rough Guest and Lu Ju are the most familiar, and there are more names that only you can't think of, and there are no names that the ancients can't get. Some parts of Guangdong still use the name "Luju".
Loquat is also called "Lu Ju", which is also transliterated in English, so I have to mention this story. The English name of loquat actually comes from a misunderstanding. It is a transliteration of Cantonese "Lu Ju", and Lu Ju became an alias of loquat, all because of a mistake of Su Dongpo, who loves to eat. "In the four seasons of spring in Luofu Mountain, Lu Juyangmei is new." After writing this poem, his friend asked him, "What is a land residence?" Yes: "loquat is." Ask again: "How to take the exam?" Yes, I said, "See each other as a blessing." This is Sima Xiangru's Upper Fu Lin. There is a saying: "So Lu Ju is ripe in summer, and Huang Gan is orange and hazel, loquat and persimmon ..." But Lu Ju and loquat are mentioned side by side in Xiang Ru Fu, so loquat is not Lu Ju. It must be that Su Dongpo, a gourmet, loves loquat so much that he misremembered the ancient books and mistook the name of Lu Ju, who had been pitted for more than 800 years.