In late October, the 10,000-mu pear garden in Shichuan Town, Gaolan County, Lanzhou City ushered in the harvest season. The picture shows the soft pear displayed locally, which is brown after refrigeration. Photo by Yan Jiao
Lanzhou, China, October 20 (Yan Jiao) "October harvest harvest fruit, November cold frozen pear fragrance." In late October, lanzhou city gaolan county Shichuan town huanghe river ten thousand acres of ancient pear orchard harvest, picked soft pear and winter fruit pear through a months of "sweating" and saccharification process, and finally with "frozen pear + hot pot" or "frozen pear + beef noodles" and "pear drink + barbecue" and other new collocations on the people's table.
Soft pear and winter fruit pear is the main raw material of Lanzhou traditional snack frozen pear, hot winter fruit, in the dry weather of Lanzhou, because of its heat, lungs, health and disease removal effects, has become one of the first choice of Lanzhou people in the cold winter traditional snacks. One of the best places to produce these two kinds of pears is the "world's first ancient pear garden" in Shichuan Town, with more than 9,000 ancient pear trees more than 100 years old, and the oldest pear trees are more than 400 years old, and the pears produced have good taste and good quality.
The pear garden in Shichuan Town, Gaolan County, has more than 9,000 ancient pear trees that are more than 100 years old, and the pears produced have good taste and good quality. The picture shows the pear garden located on the banks of the Yellow River. Photo by Yan Jiao
When the reporter of China News Network recently visited the pear garden, most of the pears in the pear garden have been picked, the leaves have gradually turned red, and the local villagers are carrying out the finishing work of pear picking. Because the pear tree grows tall, people use the ancestral "heavenly handle" technique to pick and transport it on a one-foot ladder, and the people under the tree check whether the pear is damaged and sort it.
Wei Yongbo, chairman of the Bailutong Melon and Fruit Professional Cooperative, who has been operating the melon and fruit business for many years, has a lot of say in the sales of local soft pears and the research and development of pear products. He said that in the past, soft pears have difficulties in transportation, storage, sales, it is more difficult to open the foreign market, in recent years, the cooperative through cooperation with universities, agricultural product technology research and development and other institutions, to solve such problems, improve the market value of pears, "now a packaged frozen pear can be sold to 30 yuan, we also increased the price correspondingly when we buy the people's pears, so that farmers get more benefits." ”
In the pear orchards of Shichuan Town, the ripe and fruitful pear trees are generally as high as six or seven meters, so local villagers use the ancestral "Tianchang style" technique to pick pears. Photo by Yan Jiao
Soft pear has also entered the ranks of Gansu provincial public brand "sweet taste", in Wei Yongbo's view, this provides great convenience for soft pears to "go out".
In terms of extending the soft pear industry chain, Wei Yongbo said that soft pear paste, pear tea and pear juice have been developed. In addition, they also joined hands with Lanzhou's local internet red milk tea, using frozen soft pears instead of smoothies as a base, and developed soft pear sweet embryo milk tea, which is loved by young consumers, "Now in Lanzhou's hot pot shops, barbecue shops, beef noodle shops, milk tea shops, etc. can see the figure of soft pears." ”
After visiting several shops in Lanzhou, the reporter found that unlike the traditional way of eating in the past, diners often like to eat a string of hot pot or a mouthful of piping hot beef noodles, take a bite of cold frozen pears, or grill with hot winter fruit soup, and enjoy the sigh of "full blessing" (satisfaction).
After Xu Mengyao, who has lived in Lanzhou for many years, unlocked the above new way of eating soft pears, she not only shared it in the circle of friends with the "Nine Palace Grid", but also specially told her sisters in Chongqing through video that they came to punch the clock soon after they met.
Wei Shengheng, who grew up in a pear garden, was very happy to learn of this phenomenon, he had a sense of affinity for pears since he was a child, and when he grew up, he inherited his ancestral business and became the 21st generation inheritor of the soft pear picking skills. He said that he hoped that under the care of generations of people, soft pears could go farther and farther. (End)
Source: China News Network