In episode 16 of the Legend of Wu Mei Niang, Li Zhi gave a raw pear to his sister Princess Gaoyang at the grand meeting organized by Emperor Taizong, and said as he handed it, such a good pear can't stop your mouth. Loi Siu took it and didn't wipe it, so he opened his mouth and chewed it. To tell the truth, if this were really in the Tang Dynasty, such a good pear in Li Zhi would really block Levin's mouth, because Levin wouldn't eat raw pears!
Pear is a common fruit in the north of the Tang Dynasty, but people in the Tang Dynasty like to eat steamed pears. Tian Jia's old people have nothing to do, steamed pears are fragrant in the daytime and lonely. (Excerpted from Tian Zuojia by Guan Xiu. This poem shows an old man in the Tang Dynasty who steamed a pear at home in his spare time during the day. In the Tang dynasty, in addition to the most popular steamed pears, there were also pears burnt at the end of the furnace. Tang Suzong Hengli, the great grandson of Wu Zetian, used to sit around at night. Because Li Bi, a beloved minister, doesn't eat animal products, Hengli personally cooks pears for him.
In the Tang dynasty, pears were not too expensive and precious fruits, but they were relatively easy to buy in the markets of northern towns, and various places had their own famous varieties. For example, the most famous pear in Chang 'an area is Aijia pear, and the legendary pear in Baode Temple in Luoyang weighs six kilograms. Changshan Town Top Pear, Qingzhou Water Pear and Zhengzhou Goose Pear are also famous all over the world. It can be seen that there is no shortage of pears in the Tang Dynasty, but they must be steamed or burned.
Speaking of which, let's learn more about the fruits of the Tang Dynasty.
There are twelve kinds of fruits recorded in the Tang Dynasty, such as plum, peach, cherry, jujube, chestnut, pear, sweet, orange, plum, pomegranate and melon. Seeing this, many people should ask, why is there no such famous fruit? Yes, what about the most famous litchi in the Tang Dynasty?
Litchi is the most famous fruit in the Tang Dynasty. Riding the princess in the world of mortals, she smiled. No one knows that litchi made Yang Guifei the spokesperson of this fruit, so she became famous. However, litchi was a top luxury in the Tang Dynasty. At that time, wealthy families regarded it as a show-off capital.
Because it is too high, some people who can't eat it have studied it Does Princess Yang Cangui really eat the original litchi?
In China, litchi is generally produced in Lingnan thousands of miles away from Chang 'an, the capital where Yang Guifei lives. Bai Juyi said in the preface to litchi pictures: if litchi leaves this branch, the color will change on the first day, the fragrance will change on the second day, the taste will change on the third day, and the color and fragrance will be gone on the fourth and fifth days. The person who sent litchi to Yang Guifei went to Chang 'an for seven days and seven nights, and everyone died. Can the litchi that arrived here seven days ago still be eaten? The oldest of the eight masters in the Tang and Song Dynasties once said simply and neatly: Every year, dried litchi is the tribute to Yang Guifei. After a busy day, Yang Guifei ate dried litchi?
It is also said that the fresh litchi that Yang Guifei ate was sent to Chang 'an by transplanting a big tree with fruit. History: Litchi with roots is planted in containers, from Nanchu to Danhe River in Xiangyang, bei chu, and transported to the inaccessible places in Shangzhou and Qinling Mountains. But when the fruit is ripe, it will be picked over the ridge and airlifted to Huaqing Palace, which can be reached in one day. If so, Yang Guifei is not a white contemporary speaker!
Since lychees are so difficult to prune, don't people in the Tang Dynasty eat high-grade fruits? No, Chang 'an people can still get one by biting their teeth and working hard. This is a cherry.
Cherry, also known as Han Tao in Tang Dynasty. In the northern region, cherry is one of the earliest ripe fruits in a year, which is called the first fruit in early spring. In the Tang Dynasty, cherries were not only used in temples recommended by ancestors, but also picked by the emperor himself. It is an infinite honor for the priest to receive cherries from the holy family. There will be a cherry banquet for newcomers. Do you know how they eat? But eating cherries with milk is the most popular delicacy in the Tang Dynasty.
You see, people in the Tang Dynasty ate everything from steamed pears to lychees to cherries. So Li Zhi shouldn't fool Levin with raw pears.