Zoutang pear preserved pear, produced in The town of Didu is located in the Sangpu Mountains.
The local Zoutang Green Peel Pear is one of the well-known Lingnan fruits at home and abroad, produced in the hilly area of the southeast foothills of Sangpu Mountain, that is, behind the villages of Nanlong, Xianpu, Fengmei and Wumei in Didu Subdistrict.
Zou Tang green peel pear
As for why it is called Zoutang pear, because the villages just mentioned were collectively called Zoutang dragon in ancient times, so the green skin pear is also called Zoutang pear.
Villagers use pears as raw materials, and the refined Zoutang pears have the effect of clearing heat and quenching thirst, moisturizing the lungs and dissolving phlegm, etc., and are known as "Chaoshan tulang sheep".
As for why ZouTang pear is called "Tangshan Tu antelope"?
Legend has it that in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, a fever epidemic occurred in Siam, and the patient had an extremely high body temperature, dry throat and thirst, and was extremely irritable.
Due to the poor medical conditions at that time, coupled with the hardships of the life of the Chinese living here, the economy was desperated, it was impossible to seek medical treatment, and the number of patients was large, and it was impossible to relieve the patients.
It just so happened that there was a Guest Head surnamed Chen who returned to Siam from Chaoshan with a bag of Zou Tang Green Peel Pear Breast, saw that his wife was also ill, had sought medical treatment, but the condition did not improve, Chen Ketou used dried pears at the home of Zou Tang's friends, knowing that it had the effect of disbanding heat poison, so he cooked a bowl for his wife to drink.
After an hour or two, the wife felt that the internal heat had subsided, and her mouth was full of energy.
So after drinking for two or three consecutive days, the fever was gone. Chen Ketou was a warm-hearted man, distributed the pears to the surrounding neighbors, boiled water to drink, and cured hundreds of sick people on one side.
When he asked Chen Ketou what magic method he had, Chen Ketou said that he had cured it with "Tangshan Tuling", and since then, Zoutang Qingpi Pear Dried Pear has been called "Tangshan Tuling Sheep" by overseas Chinese.
So, where does this "Tangshan Earth Antelope" come from?
According to the local "Zoutang Zheng Clan Genealogy" and folk word-of-mouth materials, it is said that Ming Jiajing entered the priest Zheng Gang in the thirty-fifth year (1556) and brought back Cangxi Sydney pear from Sichuan when he was an envoy to Sichuan in the early years of Longqing, and his mother was greatly appreciated after eating.
In order to honor his mother, he was transplanted on the hillside behind the ancestral ancestral hall of Zoutang Zheng, and at the beginning it was called "Zhengzi Pear", and then because of the indecent name of Zhengzi Pear, it was renamed Qingpi Pear because of its color, and the descendants gradually multiplied and spread all over the mountain to which Zoutang Dragon belonged, which has been more than 400 years.
Zou Tang pear preserved, moisturizing the lungs and making phlegm cough, clearing heat and eliminating annoyance and thirst, taking medicine internally can help digestion, can detoxify alcohol, and is good at curing fever and injury of fever and thirst and lung heat dry cough phlegm and other symptoms.
In addition, the green peel pear can also be used externally, when it is drizzled by boiling water or burned by fire, the green peel pear raw fruit is cut into small pieces with a knife and then pasted on the injured area has an analgesic astringent effect.