Since ancient times, scholars like "Ficus pumila fruit", its elegance, its sadness and its medicinal use, so "Ficus pumila" has been included in many poems.



The folk language of "Ficus pumila" is "litchi fruit", but some Cantonese call "litchi" litchi fruit. Su Shi once wrote a poem "sigh of litchi", which describes the scene of Yang Guifei eating litchi, and the "litchi" in Dumu's poem "riding the mortal concubine to laugh, no one knows it is litchi", which is different from "Ficus pumila", which is a different fruit of different plants.



"Ficus pumila" is also called Manglietia. In Li Sao by Quyuan, there is a description that "the roots of the grass are tied together, and the plums of Ficus pumila run through it". This kind of fragrant grass is used to express the meaning of purity and purity.



Many Chinese delicacies come from deep mountains and forests. Kneading Ficus pumila seeds into "jelly" is a great delicacy invention of the mountain people. The botanical monograph of wuqijun in the Qing Dynasty, a textual research on the names and facts of plants, said: "Manglietia is Ficus pumila, which runs from the river to the South and is called wooden steamed bread. It is common to use neutron juice as jelly to relieve summer heat." If you have the opportunity to go to Fenghuang in Xiangxi, Shencongwen's hometown, or to the Furong building in Qianyang, where poets wangchangling and Li Bai were once relegated, you can eat lychee jelly with sugar and rice vinegar. It is the spring water or the water in the mountain well, which rubs the seeds in the litchi fruit into a solidified gel and becomes a crystal clear jelly. The mountain people call it "jelly", and some foreign tourists call it "jelly", the ancient books call it "Mulian cake", and the Ficus pumila is also called "jelly fruit". Ficus pumila was first used as a medicine in the collection of Materia Medica in the Tang Dynasty. It is said that its stems, leaves and roots can be used as medicine.



In the concept of ancient literati, Ficus pumila was connected with the desolate and desolate situation. Liu Zongyuan wrote a poem in his poem "ascending the city tower of Liuzhou to send Zhangting to seal the four prefectures" that "the tall buildings in the city connect with the great wilderness, and the sea and sky are in a state of melancholy. The wind is blowing and the lotus water is falling, and the dense rain slants against the Ficus pumila wall." In front of the poet, there was a vast and desolate space, which gave rise to a vast "melancholy". The poet chose Furong and Xueli to play up the melancholy of being relegated to the great wilderness. The water out of Furong had the feeling of "wind shaking and chaos", while the clustered Xueli covered the wall, also had dense rain slanting into it, and the whole poem was permeated with melancholy. In ancient poems, Xue Li often conveys a desolate, lonely and sad atmosphere. Gu Kuang, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, said, "Xue Li is a Buddhist nunnery, overlapping the trees beside the nunnery. Some people know where the empty mountain path is." Tang Xianzu of the Ming Dynasty wrote a poem that "the cicadas mourn over the leaves of trees, and the water does not dive into the scales. The air of the sun is light and the lotus is light, and the clouds are overcast and the Ficus pumila grows." Many ancient literati were puzzled about their official career, failed to meet their talents, and were in adversity. Why not sigh? They often borrow Ficus pumila to express their feelings to relieve their worries. Tanyongzhi, a poet of the Five Dynasties, said, "the autumn wind blows thousands of miles in the lotus land, and the evening rain falls thousands of homes in Xueli village." Shenbin, a poet of the late Tang Dynasty, "Xue Li provoked crickets in smoke cages, and the lotus turned over the rain and splashed mandarin ducks." There are many sad images in the poem because of Ficus pumila.



Interestingly, "Xue Li" is a common image in ancient poetry. In the Si Ku Quan Shu, there is also a special collection of Xueli garden poems. The poet loves Xue Li so much, probably because Xue Li likes to climb the ruins of ancient trees and villages, the cold and mossy mountain bridges, and the secluded Rocky Mountains and ridges, which naturally create a sad atmosphere. No wonder some people call Xueli a "hungry ghost". Volume 10 of the seven signatures of the Cloud Collection: "Xueli is a hungry ghost." The fruit of Ficus pumila is also called "ghost steamed bread".



Ficus pumila has another side. Ficus pumila doesn't drift with the current, grows in loneliness, extends green vines, and shows its green without withering despite the oblique attack of dense rain, and lives its own splendor with vigorous vitality. When summer comes, the rich Ficus pumila shows more vitality. The green vines cling to the wall tenaciously, forming a natural shade on the wall. Despite the wind, rain and lightning, they are unable to tear them apart. The sun gilded it with gold. At the time of fruit bearing, the leaves of Ficus pumila vine were full of green fruits the size of eggs. Song Zhiwen's poem of the Tang Dynasty says that "the Ficus pumila shakes the green air, and the fruit trees cover the green moss". The poet expressed his feelings with thick ink and heavy colors, describing the scenes of the creeping and thick green Ficus pumila, the graceful arbor guanlang and green moss. Sima Guang of the Song Dynasty also vividly described Ficus pumila as a garden decoration. In "Ficus pumila and bamboo in shaobuyi hall", he wrote: "cultivating bamboo is not a common thing, and Ficus pumila is also a good grass. People in the scholar's Court of the village have come to see more than good people. The crane's shins are thin, and the Dragon scales are old on the edge of the wall. The two trees are scattered, and the color of the smoke is suitable for early autumn. The master's Day is right for planting, and the wind is cool and long-term protection." (sunwenguang)