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Citation Information
THE "GOLD PEACH"
A fruit called yellow peach (hwan t`ao ) or gold peach
(kin t`ao ), of the size of a goose-egg, was introduced into China
u,nder the reign of the Emperor T'ai Tsun of the Tang (A.D. 629-649), being presented by the country K`an , (Sogdiana) .1 This introduction is assigned to the year 647 in the ran hui yao,2 where it is said that Sogdiana offered to the Court the yellow peach, being of the size of a goose-egg and golden in color, and hence styled also "gold peach." A somewhat earlier date for the introduction of this fruit is on record in the Ts`e fu yilan kwei,3 which has the notice that in A.D. 625 (under the Emperor Kao Tsu) Sogdiana presented gold peaches (kin t`ao) and silver peaches (yin t`ao), and that by imperial order they were planted in the gardens. This fruit is not mentioned in the Pen-ts'ao literature; it is not known what kind of fruit it was. Maybe it was a peculiar variety of peach.
FU—TSE
Fu-tse is enumerated among the products of Sasanian
Persia in the Sui h4.4 Pai II fu-tse is attributed to the country Ts'ao (Jäguda) north of the Ts`un-lin,b and to Ki-pins
In the form ' fu-tse, it occurs in a prescription written on a wooden tablet of the Han period, found in Turkistan.? Fu-tse ßrf is identified with Aconitum fischen , cultivated on a large scale in Can-min hien in the prefecture of Lu-nan, Se-6`wan.8 It is not known, however, that this species occurs in Persia.
Yi Tsin calls attention to the fact that the medicinal herbs of India are not the same as those of China, and enumerates tubers of aconite together with fu-tse among the best drugs of China, and which are never found in India.°
1 Fun Si wen kien ki, Ch. 7, p. i b (ed. of Ki fu ts'un Su).
2 Ch. 200, p. 14; also T'ai p`in hwan yü ki, Ch. 183, p. 3. Ch. 970, p. 8 b.
4 Ch. 83, p. 7 b; also Cou Su, Ch. 50, p. 6.
6 Sui Su, ibid., p. 8 a.
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T'ai p'in hwan yü ki, Ch. 182, p. 12 b.
7 CHAVANNES, Documents de l'époque des Han, p. 115, No. 530.
8 STUART, Chinese Materia Medica, p. 10.
9 TAKAKUSU, Record of the Buddhist Religion, p. 148.
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