Are there any stories about "Jujube" and "Qiang"? It is said that this is the origin of Zaoqiang's name.
Speaking of the origin of "Ziziphus jujuba King", there is actually a beautiful legend.
During the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, there was a Gaojia in Zaoqiang County, Hebei Province. Gao's land is fertile and his family business is huge. That is a well-off family. Its owner was a scholar in his early years. After his fifties, he was named Feng Dan, and he liked it very much. He has asked a famous teacher nearby to teach him to write since he was a child. Feng Dan is smart and studious. He got a scholar at the age of 14, which can be said to be promising. My aunt surnamed Liu is also a local rich man. She has only one daughter, Feng Dan's cousin, named Chaoyang, who is two years younger than Feng Dan. She is a good family. Feng Dan and Chaoyang grew up together, childhood friends, congenial, natural love. On a full moon night when Feng Dan/Kloc was 0/6 years old, they planted a wild jujube tree with strong vitality in front of the house, and made a pledge of eternal love, making a millennium promise. The two old people also wanted to kiss each other and exchanged wedding stickers early, hoping that the two families would get married as adults.
Just when they are full of joy and look forward to a better future, they don't want to change suddenly. The court made a will and confiscated the property of the local rich households, as well as all the property of Feng Dan and Chaoyang. Feng Dan was forced to join the army because he was the only young man in Gaos. Feng Dan's parents and aunt's family, as well as local villagers, formed a formation and moved to Shandong. In desperation, the two families had to take what the court allowed and move to Shandong. Before Feng Danshen's army, he learned that Chaoyang and his family would move to Shandong. Think of yourself as a scholar. Now he has been drafted into the army. He didn't know whether he was alive or dead, and he couldn't help feeling dejected. On a dark night, he and Chaoyang dug up the jujube trees they had just planted for a year and told Chaoyang to take them to Shandong. The two broke up in tears.
Later, after a long journey, Chaoyang came with the team to live in Dawa Village, Wang Guan Town. Most of this village is named Gaojiawa, which is located in a depression. Later, a village called Xiaowa was formed in the west of the village, and Gaojiawa was changed to Dawa. Chaoyang planted jujube trees symbolizing her love with Feng Dan by the inlet in front of the village. I hope Zizyphus jujuba can survive, and I hope Feng Dan can come back one day earlier to reunite with her.
Although the jujube tree has lost a lot of water after a long journey, it miraculously survived and gave hope to the sunrise.
The waiting days are particularly long. Seven years in Chaoyang.
Jujube trees grow slowly and bloom every year, but they don't bear fruit.
Seven years ago, Feng Dan was sent to defend the border in northern Xinjiang. After joining the army, Feng Dan learned to ride a horse and shoot arrows, and learned to arrange troops. From an ordinary soldier to an China army. Five years later, he won the meritorious military service and was named "Tiger General". Feng Dan hasn't forgotten his family, not to mention his cousin. When he became a general, Feng Dan sent three capable people to visit relatives in Shandong. After a year's investigation, I finally found Gaojiawa and Feng Dan's relatives.
That year, Ding, our immediate boss, saw all the talents and was very attractive. He called Feng Dan to Zhong Jun's account and publicly announced that he would marry his daughter to Feng Dan. Feng Dan is by no means a fickle person, not to mention that he has found out the whereabouts of the person he loves. Even if there is no news from his relatives, he will not immediately admit the marriage. I'll tell you about my engagement to Dingyuanhou at present, to show my mind. "Dingyuan Hou" was refused marriage by his subordinates in public. On the surface, he is generous and tolerant, but he bears a grudge in the mainland. Later, he released Feng Dan on the charge of "unwarranted". Feng Dan looked down on her career, saying only that she was ill and returned to the battlefield before being reunited with her family.
When Gao Laohan saw his son's safe return, he felt that heaven had eyes, although he didn't go home in rags. The first thing is to choose an auspicious day for my son to marry. Everything will be fine. All shall be well, jack shall have Jill. The men, women and children in the village are very happy.
At that time, the Ziziphus jujuba tree had grown tall and strong, and there was no second tree within a few hundred miles of Fiona Fang, Fiona Fang, which had long been called "Ziziphus jujuba King" by the local people. In the year when Feng Dan married Chaoyang, the "Jujube King" produced big and sweet dates.
Three years later, Feng Dan and Chaoyang had a pair of children. The son was named Gao, and the daughter was named Liu Jinfeng after her mother. Later, with Chaoyang, men plowed and women wove, and spent their lives safely.
Because the Zizyphus jujube tree grows on the edge of the inlet, two main roots are exposed under the rain, and it actually hugs tightly together, much like a pair of lovers reunited after a long separation. I wonder how many years have passed. Feng Dan and Chaoyang are long gone, but the two main roots of jujube trees have always been hugs and kisses. ...
After the death of Feng Dan and Chaoyang, the jujube tree leans a little towards the inlet every year, and then it is almost close to the water surface.
According to Li Chunxian, a 54-year-old villager in Dawa Village, when he was a child, he often "walked" (because the tree was tilted, there was no need to climb) to play on the jujube tree and eat the dates on the tree with his friends. Take a small bamboo pole, stir it a few times, and the dates will fall into the water, and then wade to pick up the dates to eat. He said it might be the best jujube in the world. Fortunately, a new Ziziphus jujuba tree was born in the place where Ziziphus jujuba King once grew up, and in the year when Ziziphus jujuba King was wiped out. It must be the "descendant" of Ziziphus jujuba King. The new Zizyphus jujuba tree has grown for more than 20 years, with a height of more than 2 meters and a DBH 10cm. Unfortunately, the new jujube tree has not yet borne fruit.
How many things in the past and how many years have been put into the conversation. The once wild jujube tree is gone, but it and that beautiful story will remain in people's hearts forever.