The earliest record of loquat cultivation in China is recorded in Zhou Li: "Farmers control the country's nurseries, but the fruits of trees are rare." Zheng Xuan Note: Rare, a genus of grape loquat. "As for the content recorded by China literati in the poems and fu of past dynasties, it is even richer.

After the development of modern archaeological science, the existence of ancient creatures and the actual situation of agricultural production at that time can also be found from the excavation of ancient tombs. There are also many proofs of the historical facts of loquat: 1975, an ancient tomb of the Western Han Dynasty was excavated in Jiangling, Hubei Province 2 140 years ago. Among more than 500 funerary objects, there is a bamboo barnyard grass, which contains ginger, red dates, peaches and apricots, loquat and other foods, among which the flesh of peaches, plums and loquat has rotted, leaving only seeds.