China is the native country, resource-rich country and largest cultivation country of loquat. These messages have all gradually well known to the horticultural community and the general public. However, people are not very familiar with the historical and cultural background of loquat cultivation across the country and in each province. Up to now, Chinese people still often refer to Sima Qian"s "Records of the Grand Historian", which cited Sima Xiangru"s Shanglin Fu" that describes loquat cultivated in royal garden of Han Dynasty in the year 134, mistakenly believing that it is the earliest written record of loquats. However, most of Chinese people still don"t know that loquats" important position as a tribute item in history was recorded even earlier than Shanglin Fu": In 2004, Han bamboo slips unearthed from Songbai Village in Hubei Province, dated back to 170 BC, detailed a government order from the central government requiring the Shaanxi region to submit loquats as tribute. And it is the earliest record of loquat that we currently known and has been academically confirmed.