Liu Zongyuan [Tang Dynasty]

200 oranges are planted artificially, and new leaves are spread all over the city in spring.

Fang Tongchu pitied Imperial Tree and didn't learn from Limu slave in Jingzhou.

How old are you? Who can pick out the real pearls?

If you wait until the day of the forest, you will taste as good as the old man.

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I planted 200 oranges myself. Spring has come, the leaves are green, and the northwest corner of the city is also green. I like this beautiful tree of nature as much as Qu Yuan, and I don't like Hengli taking citrus trees as slaves for profit. How many years will it take to smell the flowers as white as snow? Who would pick a fruit like a bead? If I wait until the day when the orange tree turns into a forest, its delicacy will also benefit my old man.

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Liuzhou: It belongs to Guangxi now. Liu Zongyuan is the secretariat of Liuzhou.

Corner (yú): corner.

Forrest Gump: namely "orange", a kind of orange. Huang Gan: That is orange. An orange. Guo Pu's note in Shang Fu Lin of Han Dynasty: "Yes, orange is monosodium glutamate."

City corner: City corner. Refers to the remote and empty land at the root of the city. The Book of Songs: "A quiet girl will have her love, as long as I am in the corner."

Chu Ke: refers to Qu Yuan, a great poet of Chu State during the Warring States Period. Qu Yuan loved oranges and wrote Ode to Oranges, praising the beauty of orange trees enthusiastically.

Yellow book: dried tangerine peel.

Wood slave: refers to the fruit of citrus. Tang Yuanzhen's poem "Appreciating Lotte Southeast" says: "The green ball is new, and the golden pill is a small wooden slave." "Don't learn" sentence: This is a story about Hengli's profit from growing oranges. According to Shui Yuan, during the Three Kingdoms period, Hengli was a native of Jingzhou and a satrap of Wu Danyang. He sent people to plant thousands of oranges in Longyang Prefecture, Wuling (now Changde County, Hunan Province). When he died, he said to his son: There are thousands of wooden slaves in my state, that's enough. He regarded the orange tree as a slave and could make a profit, so he was called a "wooden slave". This sentence is said from the opposite side.

Snow spray: describes white flowers in full bloom. Drop bead: A string of hanging beads. Here is a metaphor for citrus fruits.

Sit-in: Wait gradually. Song Sushi's poem "tengxian West Garden in the Same Year" reads: "Everyone grows elm willows and waits for ten acres of shade." Taste: delicious. Lu Chunqiu Yin Shi: "The taste of lust in the mouth.