History on the table | Wu Zetian brings fire pomegranate with one person

The Mid -Autumn Festival will sacrifice the moon according to the vulgar. In the case, in addition to the moon cakes of the market, there are many young fruits, grapes, persimmons, pomegranates and the like. You have to pick big people. Grapes mean a lot of profits, persimmons mean everything, pomegranates mean people's prosperity, and more children are blessed.

Where did the pomegranate come from? It was said that Zhang Jian was introduced from the Western Regions, and at the same time, grapes and grass were introduced. These are the recognition of future generations. Bo Wang Hou Zhang's envoys to the Western Regions did introduce excessive species, but there was no pomegranate character in the history. Xi Jin Zhang Hua said: "Han Zhang Yan made the Western Regions, and the grostry of the country was planned to return." When he said this, Zhang Ye had been dead for more than 300 years.

In short, there is no first -hand information that the pomegranate is introduced and when it was introduced. However, according to the text, pomegranates were planted in the inner garden of the Han Dynasty. Sima Xiangru's "Shanglin Fu" was written during the Emperor Hanwu and described the flowers and plants planted in the Shanglin Garden. Among them, there was a sentence of "staying in the evil". Some people thought that the "retention" here was pomegranate. The "Xi Jing Miscellaneous Ji" written by Ge Hong in the Eastern Jin Dynasty also said that Emperor Hanwu built a "Shanglin Garden" in Chang'an, and there were ten pomegranates among Qihua Zhenguo from various places.

According to the above text, Chang'an area should be the earliest domestic pomegranate planting center, and then radiate from Chang'an to the surrounding area, and then move along the traffic road to all parties. Of course, the introduction of pomegranates may not have such a single way, and it can also be introduced to the country through India and other places.

"The Collection of Ledu Poems" includes a poem "Meng Zhu":

Yangzhou pomegranate flowers, picked into the two plackets.

持 持 葳蕤 葳蕤 葳蕤 葳蕤 葳蕤 葳蕤 葳蕤。.

The Yangzhou here refers to the place where the capital city of the Eastern Jin Dynasty is located, which is the current Nanjing. This is a love poem and folk song. It can be seen that pomegranates should be common in Jiangnan at that time.

Auspicious multi -son map Southern Song · Lu Zonggui

In the twenty -seventh year of the Song and Yuan dynasties (AD 450), Tuoba waves wielded south. When he arrived in Pengcheng, he requested Liu Yigong and Liu Jun, the general Liu Yigong and Liu Jun who adhered to the city.

During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the situation was very chaotic. Emperor Song Wentong in the south raised the northern expedition, and the Northern Wei Dynasty Emperor Tuoba was naturally unwilling to show weakness. He vowed to include Jiangnan into the pocket. When he attacked Xuzhou, he sent Li Xiaobo to the city to greet him. Liu Song immediately sent Zhang Changying, and the two sides immediately launched a wonderful tongue battle.

During the tongue war, the two sides also gave each other gifts. Tuobayu sent the "one collar each, nine salt each", and asked Liu Song to ask for yellow mandarin. Zhang Chang returned to the "Ten Torch Ten" and said: There are too many people, no matter how much you send, it is not enough. Moreover, Huang Orange has previously given to Tuobayu some, presumably he has not finished eating it. Tuobayu sent "a brocade" again, and asked Zhang Chang to want sugar cane and pomegranate. Zhang Chang said: "Pomegranate comes from the bottom, and it is not necessary." There should be no shortage of this.

Why does Tuoba dong, sugar cane, pomegranate? It is nothing more than these items in the south. Tuobayu's intention is obvious. I saw these products in your south, so I also wanted to annex the south together. And Zhang Chang was very alert, and expressed his attitude towards answering.

Zhang Chang said that "pomegranate comes from Xia Xia." The writer Zhang Heng has "Nandu Fu", which records the geographical location of Nanyang, trees and beasts, etc. There is a cloud "If its garden, there are 蓼蕺 ... 梬 jujube, Ruosuru". If the dumpling is the pomegranate, it can be seen that the pomegranate is the famous fruit of Nanyang at this time.

Pomegranate was quickly spread nationwide in the Tang Dynasty, because Wu Zetian liked pomegranate very much. She brought pomegranates with one person with one person. At one time, she appeared in China. She also loves pomegranate skirts. The dye of this red dress is extracted from pomegranate flowers.

When he became a monk, Wu Zetian wrote a love poem to Li Zhi:

Seeing Zhu Chengbi Sisi, he was mixed as Yi Jun.

Don't believe in tears, open the box to check the pomegranate skirt.

Eventually moved Li Zhi and took her back to the palace. By 659 AD, Wu Zetian even put a pomegranate skirt in Famen Temple Palace, and re -see the day in 1981.

Edit: Qin Xiaoyi

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