The concubine laughed
Cinnamon flavor
Meta red
Name:Lichee
Types: Concubine Smile, GuiWei, Yuan Hong, March Red, Huai Zhi, Glutinous Rice Fin and so on.
Origin: Guangdong is the most cultivated, followed by Fujian and Guangxi, and there are also small amounts of cultivation in Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou and Taiwan provinces.
Palate: Fresh and sweet, sweet, fragrant, soft and juicy.
Season: Lychee is a fruit of spring and summer, and the ripening period is mostly between May and June of each year. The ripening time of different varieties is also different.
Calories: 100 grams of lychees contain calories, about 70 calories, lychees are also a relatively low calorie fruit.
Growing environment: Suitable for the growth of lychee climatic conditions are generally high temperature and high humidity, lychee can adapt to high temperature and high humidity, summer rain and winter dry subtropical monsoon climate. Lychee belongs to a subtropical fruit, the temperature requirements are relatively high, the temperature in the main production area is generally around 25 ° C, it is precisely because of the temperature, so it is usually difficult to grow lychee in many places.
Nutritional value: appetizing and beneficial to the spleen, rational qi and pain relief, delay aging.
Directions/Precautions:
1. Peel the lychee and eat it.
2, pay attention to the temperature of the lychee, should not be eaten too much, so as not to cause fire.
3, can be juiced, brewed wine, made into drinks, lychee yogurt, canned, popsicles, smoothies, etc.
Lychee History: Lychee is native to China.
Knowledge Extension:
About Yang Guifei's lychee allusion, the origin of concubine laughter.
It is said that in order to please Yang Guifei, Gao Lishi, a eunuch from Gaozhou, wants to pay tribute to her every year from his hometown to give her a taste. However, the lychee shelf life is only two or three days, so once the lychee in the Genzi Gongyuan is plucked, it will send a fast horse to the north, day and night.
The imperial court instructed the provinces along the way to have horses, just like the current relay race, each horse desperately ran a section of the road, in order to make the beauty laugh at this basket of roots lychees, I don't know how many horses died, which has a wonderful poem for posterity: "Chang'an North Look embroidered piles, the top of the mountain thousands of doors open." A red dust concubine laughed, and no one knew that it was a lychee coming. ”