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There are many kinds of fruits now. What are the fruits that ancient people eat most often?

There were many fruits in ancient China, including apples, pears, dates, peaches, plums, oranges and lychees.

The ancients, like us, had a soft spot for fruits. Whether watching TV series or ancient paintings, whenever there is a banquet and other projects, a pot of fruit will be placed on the table of the host family.

Litchi has the most stories. At that time, the traffic was inconvenient, but litchi only grew in Lingnan, and things were scarce. At that time, litchi was very popular in the eyes of royalty. There was a little story about litchi at that time. Everyone knows that there is a litchi called "Feizixiao". Where did the princess smile come from?

Legend has it that during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, the beloved Yang Guifei suddenly wanted to go to Lingnan to eat litchi. Without further ado, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty sent someone from Lingnan to send litchi to Luoyang for Yang Guifei at that time. I saw that Yang Guifei took a bite and smiled. "Ride the world of mortals and laugh." This is why Princess Litchi smiled.

Other classics, "When a peach dies, it burns its flowers" all come from the Book of Songs. It can be seen that in the pre-Qin period, our ancestors began to eat fruits and began to grow fruits. At that time, every household planted simple fruits, carefully cared for them and looked forward to a bumper harvest, with faint signs of selling fruits.

China has a long history of growing fruits. After all, China is vast in territory and abundant in natural resources. From east to west and from south to north, each place has its own characteristics. It can be seen from "oranges are born in Huainan and oranges are born in Huaibei" that every place will grow fruits suitable for its own water and soil.

Watermelon and other fruits were often eaten in ancient times, but their appearance was slightly different from now.