Why is litchi called Princess Laughter?

As a variety of litchi, the origin of Feizixiao is as follows:

In the Tang Dynasty, Yang Guifei liked to eat litchi. In the mature season, she is required to eat fresh litchi every day. Fresh litchi is difficult to preserve. Tang Xuanzong used fast horses to transport Yang Guifei day and night, and it often smells the same when he arrived in Beijing.

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.

Original poem:

Du Mu in Late Tang Dynasty: Three Poems about the Qing Dynasty, Part One

Looking back at Chang 'an, Mount Li is like a pile of splendid scenery, and the gates of Huaqing Palace on the top of the mountain are opened in turn.

As soon as I rode on the smile of smoke and smoke, no one knew that the fresh fruit litchi was sent from the south.

Explanation:

Looking back on Chang 'an, Mount Li looks like a pile of magnificent scenery. On the top of the mountain, thousands of doors of Huaqing Palace opened in turn. As soon as I rode, the smoke billowed and the princess smiled. No one knows that the south has sent litchi fresh fruit.

Extended data:

This poem lashed out at the extravagant life of Xuanzong and Yang Guifei through the typical event of sending litchi, and its artistic effect was subtle, exquisite and well-known.

The first sentence describes the scenery of Mount Li where Huaqing Palace is located. The poet writes from the perspective of "looking back" in Chang 'an, just like a film photographer. First, he shows a broad and far-reaching panorama of Mount Li in front of the audience: lush trees, lush flowers and plants, palaces and castles stand among them, just like a beautiful group.

"Embroidered Pile" not only refers to the East Embroidered Ridge and the West Embroidered Ridge on both sides of Mount Li, but also describes the beauty of Mount Li. Then there are two close-ups: outside the palace, an emissary is riding a horse, flying fast, raising clouds of red dust behind him; In the palace, the princess smiled.

Several shots seem to be unrelated to each other, but they all contain the suspense carefully arranged by the poet: Why did the "Thousand Doors" open? Why did "One Ride" come? Why does "concubine" laugh? The poet deliberately kept silent until the tense and mysterious atmosphere made the reader want to know, and then implicitly and euphemistically revealed the mystery: "No one knew it was litchi." "Litchi" tells the whole story.

"Biography of Yang Guifei in the New Tang Dynasty": "My concubine loves litchi and wants to be born, so she rode it for thousands of miles, and her taste has not changed. She has arrived in the capital." Knowing this, the suspense in front was released at once, and those shots naturally merged.

This writing is to show that this matter is very important and urgent, and there is no reason for outsiders not to know. This not only exposed the absurdity that the emperor did everything he could to please his favorite concubine, but also echoed the unusual atmosphere rendered earlier. The whole poem does not need difficult words, allusions and carvings. Simple and natural, profound and powerful. It is a masterpiece of history in the quatrains of the Tang Dynasty.

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