Su Shi – a gourmand

It can also be understood as feeling happy after eating fruit, so a poem was composed.

Afraid of getting lychee disease, and I can’t afford them either

Eating more fruits is in line with modern concepts of health maintenance.

I also like olives; otherwise, I wouldn’t have been included in the account of the ‘nut boat’”

The phrase “eating three hundred lychees a day” actually stems from Su Dongpo mishearing a local dialect, giving rise to a masterpiece that has endured through the ages. The appearance of the lychee has led to countless poems about it throughout history. \"A rider in the dust brings smiles to the empress,\" tells the story of lychees from Sichuan being transported to Chang’an. There is also a more accessible verse: Eating three hundred lychees a day, I’d gladly remain in the Lingnan region forever. It tells the story of Su Dongpo, who was exiled to Lingnan and fell in love with the lychees from that region. But do you know that the phrase “eating 300 lychees a day” was actually Su Dongpo mishearing what the locals said! People from the Lingnan region often say when eating lychees that \"one bite of lychee brings three fires,\" meaning that although lychees are delicious, they contain a high amount of energy and can easily cause excessive internal heat; just one bite can have a strong effect. The locals might have seen Su Dongpo arriving in Lingnan for the first time and kindly advised him to eat less, but Mandarin was not widely used at that time, so they could only speak to him in the local dialect of Lingnan. Unexpectedly, Su Dongpo did hear what they said, but he misunderstood it, thinking it meant eating 300 lychees a day. In fact, when the dialect spoken in Southern Fujian is used to say “three fires for a lychee,” it sounds similar to “eat three hundred lychees a day” in Mandarin. It should be noted that eating too many lychees in a day can cause weakness in the limbs, as the fructose contained in lychees is rapidly absorbed by the gastrointestinal tract. At this point, the liver needs to secrete invertase to convert fructose into glucose. However, due to the high fructose content in lychees, there isn’t enough invertase available, which results in insufficient sugar supply to the limbs, leading to what is known as lychee disease. It is precisely because of such a misunderstanding that another timeless masterpiece was created in Chinese ancient poetry!

There aren’t many people who don’t like fruits!

Eat three hundred lychees a day – delicious, but it causes internal heat

Eating 300 lychees a day – has anyone ever done that? ?