QUESTION:
Shandong apples are thought to be the juiciest
of all apples on earth - a testament to the
soil, water and hundreds, if not thousands,
of years experience of growing apples.
Other
fruit often feature in Chinese romance stories
as they were thought to represent heaven and
love. What special power were peaches thought
to have:
A.
The power to make two people fall in love;
B. The power to bring people back to life;
C. The power to re-grow hair when men had
become bald.
D. The power to keep your lungs healthy.
ANSWERS:
D is right! According to Chinese folklore,
peaches not only kept lungs healthy, but those
grown in a mythical garden were the fruit
of eternal life. Maybe there is some correlation
between the huge number of smokers in China
and this myth!
