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The earliest record of imperial consort Lady Yang (Yang Yuhuan 杨玉环, 719–756) and her fondness for lychees appears in the Supplement to the History of the Tang State (《唐国史补》), written by L...
The image of apples, in addition to cue a pun on the ideal of ‘universal peace’, may be combined with lychee or tangerine to form pi...
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Also named leechee, lichee, lichi, or litchi (nut).
Lychee is a tall tropical evergreen tree of the soapberry family (Sapindaceae) native to southeastern China. It was recorded in the Xijing zaji (西京杂记, Miscellaneous Records of the Western Capital), a collection of short semi-historiographical stories fro...