With the improvement of people's living standards, there are more and more choices in food, clothing, housing and transportation. Therefore, in this era, you can eat all kinds of delicacies, even "delicates and delicacies" for ancient people. To us, it's just ordinary food. Apples, which are now considered commonplace, were only enjoyed by royal nobles in ancient times. This was because apples were not easy to find at that time, and the varieties were difficult to grow, so they were expensive.
Now everyone can eat apples. Because "apple" is homophonic to "pingguo", it is also called peace fruit, which has a very beautiful meaning. In fact, our country already had "apples" more than 2,000 years ago. The "Zinai" that Xia Yu ate was the original name of apples. However, due to poor quality, it was gradually replaced by American apples.
The apples we eat today were first introduced to China in the Yuan Dynasty, and have been cultivated in Shandong and other places since then. Although they taste sweet, their skin is thin and delicate, making them difficult to transport. During the Tongzhi period in 1871 AD, Americans introduced Western apples to Yantai, Shandong and other places, and set up agricultural experimental bases there to specialize in apple varieties.
The word "apple" in modern Chinese originates from a red and sweet fruit mentioned in the Indian Buddhist scriptures. Because the Indian Buddhist scriptures are all written in Sanskrit, the word "apple" means "apple". The word is also derived from Sanskrit. It was first called "pinpo" and gradually evolved into "apple". This fruit also has a long history in our country. As mentioned above, it originated from the Xia Yu era.
Later, during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty in 141 BC, "Ringo" and "Shaguo" were also thought to be apples because they looked like apples. "Nai" and "Ling'o" were also planted in the palace gardens of the Western Han Dynasty, but they were not eaten. Instead, the ripe fruits were placed on the bedside to make incense, or placed inside clothes to make sachets.
Li Tiaoyuan, a man from the Song Dynasty, once wrote a poem about apples. There is a sentence: "Mistaken recognition is like the bright colors on the flower branches, but I don't know that the pods are decorated with scarlet." This shows that apples were not common at that time, and people did not regard them as a fruit to eat, but as an ornamental and colorful fruit.
Although our country no longer uses the old name for apples, there are two pronunciations for apples in Japan, one of which sounds very similar to the word "Ringo". As early as the Tang Dynasty of our country, Japan sent Tang historians to China to study Chinese culture. Therefore, when I see many buildings in Japan today, they are very similar to those of the Tang Dynasty of our country, and their "Japanese" also has many "Chinese" elements.
Japan introduced not only Chinese culture, etiquette, language, architecture, and clothing, but also some good birds and trees, among which perhaps "Ringo" was used as an ornamental decoration. Therefore, their The name "Ringo" is also retained in the language, which is derived from the original name for apples in Chinese culture.
To this day, Taiwanese dialect still calls apples "lin-goo", which is also derived from the "apple"-like fruit grown in my country during the Western Han Dynasty. With the continuous evolution of history, apples have become an indispensable fruit in our lives. They are rich in vitamins and have weight loss effects, and are favored by the majority of women.