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Tangyi Pear Affairs
In the fifth year of Xianfeng in the Qing Dynasty (1855), the Yellow River changed its course and Tangyi became a wasteland. Inspired by the old farmer Meng Laoliu, the survivors Lu Qiushi and Shen Ruoshui began to try to plant pear trees in the barren sandy land. After experiencing famine, drought, and oppression by landlords, they cultivated a kind of crisp pear that "melts as soon as it hits the ground" and named it Luosu. After decades of hard work, Luosu has developed from a single wild tre
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Fengqi Mushroom Incident
During the Shaoxing period of the Southern Song Dynasty, Wu Lan, a charcoal burner in Wushan Village, Fengqi County, discovered the strange "Dragon's Throat Mushroom" on a piece of rotten wood when the mountains were completely forested and there was no way to go. This extremely delicious mushroom actually grew on the ax mark left by his father - a secret of using wounds to activate rotten wood. From then on, this taciturn charcoal burner embarked on an untraveled road: using an ax to "chop flow
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