Yang Guifei is known as one of the four beauties in China, and Li Longji, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, is also a famous romantic emperor in the history of China. When they meet, they will naturally leave many well-known stories. Yang Guifei likes to eat litchi. In the mature season, she is required to eat fresh litchi every day. But litchi is produced in the south, mostly in Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Sichuan, Taiwan Province and other places. However, the capital of the Tang Dynasty is in Xi 'an, which is 1000 miles away from the nearest litchi producing area. In addition, fresh litchi is difficult to preserve. "Once you leave this branch, it changes color on the first day, becomes fragrant on the second day, and tastes bad on the third day. The smell of the sky is gone in four or five days." Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty used fast horses to transport Yang Guifei day and night, and often arrived in the capital with the same taste. Du Mu, a poet in the late Tang Dynasty, wrote a quatrain entitled "Crossing the Qing Palace in China", in which he wrote a famous sentence: "Riding a princess in the world of mortals and laughing, no one knows it is litchi." There is still a litchi called Feizixiao, named after it.
Litchi (scientific name: litchi Sonn. ) is a subtropical fruit tree, evergreen tree, about 10 m high, native to southern China. The peel is scaly, bright red and purplish red. When the pulp is fresh, it is translucent and fatty, delicious, but not storable.
Litchi, together with bananas, pineapples and longan, is called "the four major fruits in South China". Litchi is famous for Yang Guifei's love of eating, which made Du Mu write a famous sentence "The world of mortals rides a princess and laughs, but no one knows it is litchi".
Litchi is hot, and it is easy to get angry if you eat too much, which will cause "litchi disease". Solid wood, dark reddish brown, elegant texture, corrosion resistance, has always been a first-class material.
Litchi is sweet, sour and warm, and enters the heart, spleen and liver meridians; It can stop hiccups and diarrhea, and is a good diet therapy for patients with intractable hiccups and diarrhea. At the same time, it has the effects of strengthening the brain, strengthening the body, stimulating appetite and strengthening the spleen.