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Quote by Xu Guangqi
余家种蔓菁三四年，亦未尝变为菘也！
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The speaker says that planting turnips for three or four years has never made them become cabbages. The statement emphasizes that repeated time or cultivation does not cause one kind of plant to turn into another. It presents this as a plain observation from the speaker’s family experience.
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