Stories about plants, short.

1. According to legend, the sky is plagued by insects, Shennong tasted a hundred herbs to find a good prescription, Buddha compassion for the suffering of Shennong, sent nineteen Luohan down to the earth to solve the difficulties of Shennong's; which one of the Luohan wish to exterminate the plague of insects on earth, only to return to the heavenly realm. Wish is completed, with the incarnation of the fruit, the fruit of the implied meaning of Lohan, later referred to as the fruit of Lohan. Incidentally, this is the reason why people usually only know the eighteen Lohan.

2. According to legend, a Yao farmer in Yongfu County, Guangxi, China, in a mountain firewood accidentally stung by wild bees, he picked a wild fruit from the side of a vine on the bruise, but also to stop the swelling and pain, the matter was called Luohan's country doctor heard, this wild fruit repeatedly studied, used to treat coughs and other illnesses, the effect is very good. People in order to commemorate the Yao doctors, the wild fruit called Luo Han fruit.

3. Legend has it that hundreds of years ago, there was a country doctor named Luohan who used to collect herbs in the mountains and hills around Longjiang, Yongfu County, Guangxi. After practicing medicine for many times, he found that a wild vine fruit has the effect of relieving itching and pain. Leaves can cure ringworm, carbuncle. Roots can be applied to sores, fruit hair is a good medicine for knife wounds. So he studied, cultivation and application. Mountain people use this fruit to cook tea for a long time to drink, high life many people. People thus miss Luohan, more will be the fruit named Luohan fruit.

4. Another theory is that, because the root of Luohan fruit block round and fat, like Luohan sun belly, so Luohan fruit thus named.