Lihua Valley is located in Dagou Village. Most people in the village are surnamed Yu. An old couple gave birth to a daughter named Chuchu, aged 18, with bright eyes, white teeth and a stone-like appearance. One day, the fairy Zhang Sanfeng passed by and saw the poor people in the ditch. He stays at Chuchu's house at night.
I feel sorry for him because he is penniless, thrifty and simple, generous and kind. When he got up the next morning, he pulled out the hairpin on his head and put it on the ground. He laughed three times and then disappeared. In an instant, a pear tree seedling was born where the hairpin was located. The sapling grew up in the wind, and suddenly it became a leafy tree, which was covered with huge pears.
Yu and Chuchu tasted the pears, which were crisp, fragrant and sweet. If you swallow it in one gulp, your hunger will disappear. Inform the whole village to eat pears, break the branches of pear trees and pickle them. Soon, there were pear trees all over the mountain, and the fragrance of pears floated ten miles. When the son of the Dragon King of the East China Sea learned the news, he was even more flattered and went to rob relatives.
Chu didn't want to, so he drove Prince Long off the slope and ran away. Later people call this "long rolling slope". The dragon prince became angry from embarrassment, violated the dogma, created a drought, and the pear trees in Pear Valley gradually died.
Chuchu ran ten miles every day to water the tree, but she was not tempted by the threat and inducement of Prince Long, and finally died under the tree. At the moment when she closed her eyes, the withered pear tree grew green buds, and the pear tree bloomed in the wind, with silver and white everywhere.
Extended data
Flowers of pear, Rosaceae and pear tree. Pear trees, deciduous trees, leaves as round as big leaves, trunk covered with rough skin, branches like umbrellas. Flowers bloom in spring, the color is white, like snowflakes, with a strong fragrance. Fruit can not only be eaten raw, but also be used for making wine, pear sauce, preserved pear and medicine.
Pears have been cultivated in China for more than 2,000 years, with a long history and a wide variety. Since ancient times, it has been deeply loved by people, and its elegant appearance has won the admiration of poets. Originally from China, it is cultivated all over the country.
Although pear flower is very beautiful, it will not be planted in the most important or conspicuous place in the mansion of a big family in ancient China, because in ancient times people paid attention to auspiciousness, pear flower was white, and the homonym of "pear" was "separation"-dispersion, so it was considered as an unlucky symbol by the ancients.
References:
Pear Flower-Baidu Encyclopedia