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"There are peaches in the garden, but in fact, there is confusion" - "Poetry Classic, Wei Feng".
As early as two thousand years ago, peaches were intertwined with us.
From the peach ancestor "light walnut" in the moraine hills for the first time to have flowering and fruiting, to now planting peaches, appreciating peaches and eating peaches have become a fixed element in human fireworks, and the story of its evolution and survival stretches along the Yangtze River and the Yellow River.
The middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River
The crisp peach party's summer revelry
The Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau is the first area on the evolutionary path of the light walnut under the Himalayas. Karst landforms and humid and hot climates interact to create an optimal growing environment, allowing some light walnuts to take root and sprout here, and peaches have a prototype.
Mengzi, Yunnan
"Chickpeas" are recognized as "the best of peaches", but due to the extremely low yield, not many people know about chickpeas; Fewer people can eat chickpeas. But anyone who has eaten it will never forget it!
Chickpeas are famous in Yunnan. "Fat doll, no hands and feet, red pointed mouth, a body of hair, a ditch on the back, a good taste in the belly..." is the local people's most vivid introduction to "chickpeas". Five or six fat mounds of body shape, its "mouth" bright red, fluff all over the body, peach belly stitches are obvious, in the four seasons like spring climate blessing, like spring water flowing sweet peach juice, a mouthful of warm heartland.
Puding, Guizhou
"Leptosai" is a unique natural environment and profound human factors in Puding County, Guizhou Province, organically combined with the characteristics of products, is a national geographical indication product, with fresh, sweet and crisp characteristics, in history has been enjoying a high reputation.
Puding County is known as "the belly of Qian, the throat of Dian", the county seat is 28 kilometers away from Anshun and 118 kilometers away from Guiyang. It's far from the hustle and bustle of the city, surrounded by mountains and water, babbling water, and even the air is a fresh smell. Peaches grow naturally in this natural environment, with exquisite fruit shape, green skin, red glow on the sunny side, and red little by little among the lush foliage. With one bite, the flesh collides between the teeth, and the crisp sound is accompanied by a faint fragrance, returning to the clearest peach flavor.
Sichuan Longquanyi
Chengdu people understand romance, and Chengdu's peaches also understand the style.
Longquanyi District, located in the east of Chengdu, backed by the Longquan Mountain Range, under the pattern of "two mountains sandwiching one plain", the territory is warm and humid, and it is difficult to see flying snow all year round. The peaches of Longquanyi are planted at the foot of Longquan Mountain, forming a slender peach planting belt that stretches for more than 30 kilometers from north to south. The unique climatic conditions make the peaches listed here one step ahead. The perennial low temperature below 7.2 °C in winter can meet the growth needs of most peach tree varieties, so there are many types of peaches in Longquanyi - early spring buds, large white phoenixes, and special leather peaches... It wasn't until early October that the peach ended.
Longquan Mountain greenhouse peach blossom citizens have gone to the peach blossom branches to drink flower tea.
The lower Yangtze River region
A small family jasper from the water town of Jiangnan
Follow the traces of the river to the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, where the Jiangnan style redefines the form of the peach: the pink peel and the sweet and sticky peach flesh are the magic weapons they conquer people's picky taste buds.
Shanghai Nanhui
It is hard to believe that shanghai, one of the most modern cities in the world, is still a "big agricultural city".
As early as the Ming Dynasty, the Jiajing Dynasty Jinshi Gu Mingshi introduced peach trees from the north and cultivated "sweet and juicy" Luxiangyuan peaches in private gardens, after which The Luxiangyuan declined, and the peaches migrated many times, from the "yellow mud wall" in the southwest of the city to the Longhua area at the beginning of the last century, and finally settled in Nanhui, Shanghai. Since then, Peach has officially debuted in the "magic capital" of Shanghai.
On the one hand, it is "kaizong" in China, on the other hand, it is far away from the ocean, the Epoch-making varieties of the United States "Aibao Taihe Red Harbor" were introduced from Shanghai in 1850, and the famous Japanese varieties such as "Okubo" and "White Phoenix" were also improved by Shanghai peaches in 1875.
Fenghua, Zhejiang
Fenghua is located in the low hilly area of eastern Zhejiang, the soil is loose, the terrain is undulating, the drainage is better, and it is more suitable for the growth of peaches. In the Southern Song Dynasty Fenghua Sanshiren Chen's "Xu Jiao Waterfall", there is a verse that "full of yam flavor adds new color, and the peach blossoms on the shore win the old year", indicating that Fenghua has been cultivating peaches on a large scale since the Song Dynasty.
The most authentic ingredients are often secret, and the most traditional and stunning peach in Fenghua, Gyokuro, can only be eaten locally. It is small in size, green and white in appearance, and resembles a wild peach; Yet under the paper-like coat is a rich and sweet juice and a unique and rich aroma. Because the sweetness is too high and the juice is too sufficient, the gyokuro peach will soon soften after ripening the tree, and it is impossible to transport it for a long time, and it is difficult to form a large-scale industry. Only when senior gourmets in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Shanghai go to Fenghua to taste it in person, can they not miss the short-lived sweetness.
Yangshan, Jiangsu
Among the "three peach brothers" in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, the most famous in the peach industry today is the Yangshan peach as a "rising star".
Yangshan is indeed blessed - it is surrounded by Taihu Lake and has a humid climate; Located at 30° north latitude, the rain and heat are abundant; What is even more difficult to reproduce is that an ancient volcano formed hundreds of millions of years ago has brought high-quality soil covered by volcanic ash to the local area, which is simply an ideal country for peaches.
The heavenly environment makes Yangshan have a timeline to meet the growth of various types of peaches. The precocious rain flower dew is the first refreshing and sweet touch of early summer; The medium-cooked white phoenix has a little more flavor accumulation, higher sweetness, richer taste, and the largest "peach king" can reach a pound; The late-ripening "Lake View Peach" is even sweeter and softer to the extreme, and has the reputation of "flesh and bones made of water".
The upper reaches of the Yellow River are bordered by saiwai
The wonderful collision of peach and peach
The migration from the water towns of Jiangnan to the hinterland of the Central Plains brought the "peach love party" in Gansu and Xinjiang Korla a summer-limited carnival of tongues.
Gansu Qin'an
There is a queen mother peach in the heavens, and a peach in Qin'an on the earth.
Benefiting from the local special climate and soil environment, Qin'an peach is famous for its body shape, sweet meat, juicy, colorful and green nutrition, and has also won the title of "Chinese Famous Fruit". Qin'an peach has a long history, Ming Jiajing's "Qin AnZhi" cloud: "Qin An duo peach", and contains the verse "Home Longshui West, the door has a peach thousand trees", saying its grand scene. Today, "Qin'an Peach" is also a national geographical indication protection product.
Gansu also has a rugged and heroic "Li Guangtao", named in honor of Li Guang, a flying general who was brave and good at war and resisted the Xiongnu. Locals call it the "Hermes" of peaches. "Li Guangtao" wears "green clothes", the flesh is honey white, the taste is sweet and fragrant, and the juice is rich, so that people who have eaten it "see each other and hate late".
Shihezi, Xinjiang
For people who love to eat peaches, the place name Shihezi must be familiar. In the peach world, Shi Hezi is also a "big brother" level existence.
Originally, it was a deserted beach, and the river channel was full of stones, so it was called "Shihezi". Since the 1950s, after more than half a century of hard work, it has become a veritable "land of melons and fruits". Peach is a specialty of the 143rd Regiment of the Eighth Division of the Local Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, and is also a well-known national geographical indication for agricultural products.
Shihezi winter is cold, summer is extremely hot, due to sufficient sunshine, large temperature difference between day and night, peach has sufficient sugar accumulation, very delicious. Moreover, local farmers insist on applying organic fertilizer during the planting process, creating a Combination of Beauty and Deliciousness in Xinjiang Shihezi Peach. Shihezi is also known as the "hometown of Chinese peaches".
Xinjiang Shihezi peach, fruit core small meat a lot.
The lower reaches of the Yellow River and the Hai River Basin
You are so sweet, you should have sent it from the peach
The northern peach, whether from the time dimension or the spatial dimension, has a wider range than the southern peach. Some of them have traveled through thousands of years of time and space, and since the Han Dynasty, they have been "tributes" with profound heritage; Some grow in vast plains, from the "peach town" with a planting area of hundreds of thousands of acres, and there are many brothers.
Feicheng, Shandong
But where fruit, as long as the word "Shandong" is hung in front, the quality is basically not bad. The most famous peach produced in Shandong is Feicheng. This small city of Luxiao, located in the western foothills of Mount Taishan, has a thousand-year history of peach cultivation.
Feicheng peach, also known as "Buddha peach", but locals prefer to call it "fat peach" - this is a name that drools just by listening. Feicheng peach is born large and full, and the maximum can reach about one and a half pounds! The texture of "fat" is also interpreted vividly by the fat city peach - unlike the softness of the peach, the fat city peach is even a peach, the soft also has some crispness, retaining the texture of the peach, sweet and sweet just right, fragrant and fragrant pure nature.
Shenzhou, Hebei
Hebei can be called "peach province". Among them, the most famous is the Deep State Peach. Its history can be traced back to the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, when Shenzhou was named "Tao County" for its peach production. In the twelfth year of Han Gaozu,Liu Xiang (i.e., Xiang Xiang) was made the Marquis of Tao, and in the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu ordered the peach to be made a tribute to the imperial court.
Shenzhou peach has two strains of red honey and white honey, called "Que Honey" and "Cold Peach". The fruit is slightly raised at the top, so it is easy to identify. Peaches are bright in color, thin in skin and fine in flesh, and sweet as honey. There is also a saying in the local area that "the knife cuts without flowing water, and the mouth bites smoothly".
Beijing Pinggu
When it comes to Big Peach, almost all Beijingers will set their sights on Pinggu. Located in the North Tri-River system of the HaiHe River Basin, Pinggu is surrounded by mountains on the east, south and north sides, as if it were in a natural "swaddling" with a mild climate; The territory is full of rivers, dense water networks, and a large number of volcanic rocks around it. The unique geographical environment has shaped the largest peach orchard in China with an area of 220,000 mu.
Pinggu 10,000 acres of peach orchards
Pinggu District now has four series of white peach, peach, nectarine and yellow peach, and the cultivation of open-field peach is based on the main varieties of early dew, early phoenix, Kyohong, Kyoyan, Okubo, etc., of which Okubo is the most widely known, with its large size, peach flavor, juice and full flesh and well-known at home and abroad. In 2019, Okubo picked the "laurel crown" of peaches for the National Day reception on the 70th anniversary of the founding of New China, and since then, it has been rated as a state banquet peach for three consecutive years.
The migration of human beings in all directions, the flow of flavors, whether it is nectarines, yellow peaches, peaches or peaches, have two tricks with the picky tip of human tongues, who is the master of ups and downs, only the old gourmets know it.
(Editor: Yu Yi)