When it comes to fruits, there are indeed many types of fruits in China, especially in Xinjiang, Guangdong, Hainan and other places, and after the fruits are ripe, they can be called dazzling. However, many people have always had a lot of controversy about whether apples and cherries are imported from the United States, and even think that this statement is a lie.
So are fruits and cherries imported from the United States? To understand this, the first thing to know is that in 1861, an American missionary named John Livingstone Neevis came to Dengzhou, China. In the following years, apples and large cherries were brought to China. You know, although Nevis was an American missionary, he was a true lover of fruit trees.
Before entering China, 16 apple varieties such as early apples, lotus fresh, autumn apples, and winter bananas were collected in the United States, and 12 grape varieties and 12 cherry varieties were also introduced. Later, the "Guangxing Orchard" was also built at the top of Yuhuang in Yantai, so the local people once created a statue of Ni Weisi.
Therefore, from the historical data, we can find the record of Ni Weisi planting orchards in China, after all, it is about 150 years ago. However, many people do not recognize that China's apples and big cherries are introduced to China by Ni Weisi from the United States, which cannot be said to be completely wrong, but only not rigorous enough.
You know, today's so-called apples are mostly specially cultivated "Western apples", this apple is indeed introduced to China by Ni Weisi, and the mainland's native cotton apples, color apples, begonia fruits, the biggest difference is that the former is relatively large, while the latter is relatively small. After all, before the Western apple entered China, apples had already appeared in the mainland as early as the Yuan Dynasty, but most of them were cotton apples.
Therefore, many people think that Apple was introduced to China by the American Ni Weisi, which is naturally not rigorous enough, but it is not too wrong. As for the big cherries, before Nee Weisi introduced American cherries, the mainland had grown "Chinese small cherries" for more than 3,000 years, which had been clearly recorded in the Book of Poetry. At that time, the cherries introduced by Nevis were called "European sweet cherries", in the mainland they were called large cherries, and later directly called cherries.
Between the varieties of cherries introduced by Ni Weisi and the native cherries of China, just like the difference between Western apples and cotton apples, the size of the head is different. So which apples were imported from the United States? For example, the well-known Guoguang apple was once planted on a farm in Virginia, USA, in 1800.
In addition, flower cow apples and American snake fruits were imported from the United States to China. Of course, as China's maritime industry continued to grow, many Chinese fruits were grown in the United States, such as Chinese plum trees, and New Zealand also introduced Chinese kiwifruit.
Therefore, Western apples and large cherries were indeed imported from the United States, but it does not mean that all apples and cherry varieties native to the mainland were imported from the United States, and China also has its own apples and large cherries. It is only the difference in external statements that will make everyone misunderstand, and now that it has been said very simply and clearly, I think everyone should be very clear, and they will know how to distinguish it later.