What fruits were there in Shang Dynasty?

1 Apple

Apple has been cultivated in China for more than 2000 years. According to legend, the "purple" eaten by Yu Xia is the red apple, which shows that apples have a long history in China.

2. peaches

Modern archaeologists in China discovered the wild peach pit 6,700 years ago at the Neolithic site in Hemudu, Zhejiang. A large number of wild peach stones have also been unearthed at Erligang site in Zhengzhou, Henan Province. Unearthed cultural relics confirmed the records of ancient books, and confirmed that China was the birthplace of peach trees, and people used and planted peach trees very early.

3. orange

Oranges originated in China, and thousands of years of cultivation history can't tell the specific location. Because Arabs are all over Eurasia, oranges are also called "China apples" in Holland and Germany.

China is one of the important origins of citrus, which is rich in citrus resources and has a variety of excellent varieties. It has been cultivated for more than 4,000 years. According to textual research, it was not until A.D. 147 1 year that oranges, tangerines, oranges and other citrus fruit trees were introduced into Portugal from China and into the United States in A.D. 1665.

Extended data

1 Apple

Apples are native to central and southeastern Europe, Central Asia and West Asia, and Xinjiang in China. In Europe in 300 BC, M.P. Cato had recorded the varieties of apples. Later, the Romans began farming and grafting. /kloc-in the 0/8th century, J.B. Montessori and T.A. used natural hybridization to select seedlings and gradually popularized cultivation.

After European immigrants discovered the new continent of America, they introduced apples to America and cultivated many new varieties in America. Japan introduced apples from Europe and America during the Meiji Restoration. Since then, Oceania and Africa have also introduced apples.

2. peaches

After the 2nd century BC, the peach trees cultivated by China people spread westward from Gansu and Xinjiang via Central Asia to Persia, then to Greece, Rome, Mediterranean countries, and then to France, Germany, Spain and Portugal. But it was not until the ninth century that peach trees were gradually planted in Europe. /kloc-After the 5th century, peach trees from China were introduced to Britain.

3. orange

Traditional oranges are generally autumn oranges, 10- 1 1 mature, which is the so-called late autumn season, while mixed oranges are new forms, some are winter oranges and some are spring oranges. The hybrid Ehime 38 ripens in late autumn and early winter, while the citrus (Baba orange) in spring ripens in the dead winter (winter orange) from 12 to 65438+ 10. Vogan (Vogan Orange) and Ugly Orange. It belongs to spring orange, and the maturity period is February-March.

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