History on the table | Early autumn persimmon is red, the persimmon tree has "seven must", Zhu Yuanzhang named it as Ling Shuanghou

Persimmon has been listed in large quantities. The color is good, the taste is good, and it is very useful to eat and look at it. The meaning of persimmons is good, everything is like, and everything is like auspicious painting. Ming Xianzong Zhu Jianshen painted "Pepsi Ruyi", and used cypress branches and several red persimmons.

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Persimmon is a native to China, with a history of about 3,000 years. The Western Han Dynasty Ci Fu Family Sima Xiangru recorded "枇 橪 西" in "Shanglin Fu". "The name of the Jin Palace" cloud: "Hualin's round persimmons, six or seven plants, a plant in front of Huizhang Temple." This is the persimmons planted in the palace. During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, persimmons began to develop from garden cultivation to large -scale planting, and to the Tang Dynasty's "teaching people" persimmons.

Small is that the persimmon tree has "seven must": one life, two yin, three bird nests, four no worms, five frost leaves can play, six acacia, seven fallen leaves are hypertrophy. The Tang Dynasty Zheng Qian used persimmon leaves to practice characters, and finally achieved something.

Creamy leaves, Kaishi flavor. There are many varieties of persimmon, and the taste is very different. A few years ago, the TV series "Twelve hours of Changan" brought fire crystal persimmons. That's a soft persimmon. There are also hard persimmons, Zhang Ye, a late Ming literati, likes the most. He wrote in "Tao Yanmeng Yi":

Xiaoshan's persimmon, the skin green is not good, the skin red and the meat erosion is not good. However, it is not much to meet.

Just be as crisp as a lotus to applaud. He also mentioned that one year when he went to Luyuan Temple in Puzhou to avoid the war, he saw that the persimmons were as large as melon, and it was crispy like iced and chewing snow.

Since ancient times, there have been many examples of woodstone birds and beasts. Qin Shihuang Fengsong was the five big husbands, and Tang Wuhou Feng Bai was the five doctors of the five grades. Persimmon was also sealed. This story comes from the "Record of Tianzhuan" by Mingren Zhang Ding.

When Zhu Yuanzhang did not make a job, he was hungry for two days. He saw a tree, and the frost is ripe and feed it. After eating ten pieces, I was full. Many years later, Zhu Yuanzhang attacked the stone picking, passed by on the way, saw this persimmon tree again, and then dismissed, put his red robe on the tree, and said, "Fenger is Ling Shuanghou."

"In the Tianlu" is not complete today, there are only a few, and the record is the anecdote of Zhu Yuanzhang. The author Zhang Ding is a native of Si County, Anhui, and his life deeds are no longer available. Si County, near Fengyang, can be regarded as a close neighbor of Zhu Yuanzhang's hometown. From the content, Zhang Ding may be from Hongwu and Yongle. As for the book recorded, is it true or false? Why? It can only be said to be available for historians' reference.

Source: Yangtze Evening News Zi Niu News Micro Historical Records

Edit: Qin Xiaoyi

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