With the improvement of people's living standards, there are many choices for food, clothing, housing and transportation, so in this era, we can eat all kinds of delicious food, even the "delicious food" of ancient people, but it is just ordinary food for us. Apples, now considered as ordinary things, were only enjoyed by the royal nobles in ancient times, because they were not easy to see and the varieties were difficult to grow at that time, so they were expensive.

Now everyone can eat apples, because "apple" is homophonic for "Pingguo", so it is also called Pingguo, which has a beautiful meaning. In fact, there were "apples" in China more than 2,000 years ago. The "purple" eaten by Yu Xia is the original name of apple, but it is gradually replaced by western fruits because of its poor quality.

The apples we eat today were first introduced to China from the Yuan Dynasty, and have been planted in Shandong and other places since then. Although it tastes sweet, it is very thin and delicate, and it is not easy to transport. During the Tongzhi period 187 1, Americans introduced western apples to Yantai and other places in Shandong, and established agricultural experimental bases there to study apple varieties.

The word "apple" in modern Chinese comes from a red and sweet fruit mentioned in Indian Buddhist scriptures. Because Indian Buddhist scriptures are all written in Sanskrit, the word "apple" also comes from Sanskrit, which was originally a "frequent girl" and gradually evolved into "apple". This kind of fruit has a very long history in China, and it was first mentioned in Xia Yu period.

Later, in the period of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty 14 1 BC, "Lin Ling" and "Shaguo" were also considered apples because they looked like apples. "Money" and "rush grass" were also planted in the Western Han Dynasty and the Shang Dynasty, but they could not be eaten. Instead, put ripe fruits on the bedside for aromatherapy, or put them in clothes for sachets.

Li, a poet in the Song Dynasty, once wrote a poem about apples, one of which said, "I don't know if the fruit pods are scarlet, but I made a mistake." . It shows that apples were not common at that time, and people would not eat them as a kind of fruit, but as an ornamental and colorful fruit.

Although the old name of Apple in China is no longer used, Apple has two pronunciations in Japan, one of which is very similar to the word "Linlin". As early as the Tang Dynasty in China, the Japanese sent Tang Shi to China to study China culture. So many buildings in Japan today are very similar to those in the Tang Dynasty in China, and their "Japanese style" also contains many elements of "Chinese style".

Not only China's culture, etiquette, language, architecture and costumes, but also some fine birds and fine trees were introduced to Japan. Perhaps "Lin Ling" was regarded as an ornamental decoration, so their language also retained the name "Lin Ling", which originated from the original name of apple in China culture.

Taiwan Province dialect still calls apples "forest fruits", which is also a kind of fruit similar to "apples" planted in the Western Han Dynasty. With the continuous evolution of history, apples have become an indispensable fruit in our lives. Rich in vitamins, it has the effect of losing weight and is favored by women.