"The Book of Songs·Guo Feng·Hinoki Wind·Xi You Chang Chu" is a poem about kiwi fruit.
Original text of the work:
National style, cypress wind, Xi has Chang Chu
Xi has Chang Chu, Yi Nuo its branches. Yao Zhi Wo Wo, Le Zi's ignorance!
There is Chu in Xi, and there is beauty in Nuo. The youth is fertile and the joy is homeless!
Xi has Chang Chu, but Yi Nuo is actually there. There is no room for joy when you are young!
苌 (cháng) Chu: namely kiwi fruit (sheep peach). "National Style·Japanese Wind·Xi You Chang Chu" is a poem in the "Book of Songs", the first collection of poetry in ancient China. This poem repeatedly expresses the envy of Chang Chu (i.e. Yang Tao) who is full of vitality, free of thoughts and family burdens.
Extended information:
Ancient poets and kiwis:
Cen Shen, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, wrote a poem "Taibai Dongxi Zhang Laoshe is about to leave his brother, nephew, etc." "On the well railing in the atrium, there is a stand of kiwi fruit". This is the first time that the name of kiwi fruit appears in classics.
In addition, Guo Pu also wrote in his annotation "Erya": Today's sheep peach is also. Or called ghost peach. The leaves are like peach, white in color, and the seeds are like wheat, also like peach. Lu Ji's "Poems on Plants, Trees, Birds, Beasts, Insects and Fish": Today's sheep peach is also. The leaves are long and narrow, purple-red in color. Its branches and stems are weak and tend to spread over the grass over a foot. Nowadays, people think that watering and irrigation is heavy but good, and not as good as willows. Cut off the skin with a knife near the bottom, remove it from the hot ashes, and remove the barrel of the pen.
Li Shizhen, the master of medicine in the Ming Dynasty, "Compendium of Materia Medica·Cao No. 7": Sheep peach has a stem as big as a finger, like a tree but as weak as a vine, and the tender strips are soft in spring. The leaves are as big as a palm, green on top and white on the bottom, hairy, and shaped like ramie. The strips are slippery when soaked in water. As well as some other ancient documents, the traits, growth characteristics, functions and aliases of symmetrical kiwi fruit have been repeatedly recorded.
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