据《后汉书》载:号称伏波将军的东汉大将马援,奉旨平定了南疆叛乱后,凯旋归来时带回一车薏苡子,声称该子实“能轻身省欲,以胜瘴气”.当时有一些嫉贤害能的小人诬告马援搜刮了大量珠宝私自收藏.马援闻说后,为了回击诬陷,当众将薏苡子倒入漓江,此举使谣言不攻自破. According to the “Later Han” contains: General Ma Fu, known as General Fubo of the Eastern Han Dynasty, since the purpose of peace in Nanjiang rebellion, the triumph returned when brought back a car Coix, claiming that the fruit of " At that time, there were some villains who were jealous of the virtues and were falsely accused of searching for privately-owned collections of a large number of jewels. Ma Yuwen said that in order to fight back and frame falsely, they poured the coix seed into the Li River, a move that made the rumor unfounded.