Among the fruits of Zhejiang, Bayberry is definitely the "divine fruit" in the Fruits of Zhejiang.
Historically, the Southern Song Dynasty poet Lu You was a fanatical fan of Yangmei in Zhejiang.
Lu You has a poem:
"The chicken head is like a big bead, and the red grass and green lotus flavor are special.
Heaven and bayberry are unique, and my hometown is unique to a foreign country. ”
Bayberry is native to Yuyao, Zhejiang Province, China, and the "Hemudu people" have been eating bayberry more than 7,000 years ago. Yuyao, Zhejiang is also the "hometown of bayberry" or "kingdom of bayberry" in China. The output of bayberry in the whole of Zhejiang Province is about 130 million catties, ranking first in China. Of course, it is also the first in the world. Because in addition to China's special love for bayonet, other countries eat less baywood.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="24" > the four major strains of Yangmei in Zhejiang</h1>
There are four well-known varieties of Zhejiang bayberry: Dongkui bayberry, water chestnut (bi qi) bayberry, late rice bayberry, and Ding Ao bayberry. Dongkui bayberry is a late-maturing variety of bayberry that ripens after about mid-to-late June, and is characterized by a very large fruit. In some fruit supermarkets, the retail price of Zhejiang Dongkui Bayberry is relatively high, and some bosses will say that they are selling "Dongkui" instead of "Bayberry", and have never highlighted the value of "Bayberry". In fact, Dongkui is a variety of bayberry.
However, most of the bayberry on the market is not Zhejiang Dongkui bayberry, most of them are precocious bayberry in Yunnan. The Dongkui bayberry, planted in the open air in Zhejiang, will ripen after late June. The more well-known regional brand in Dongkui Bayberry is "Xianju Dongkui Bayberry", many fruit shops like to play this "brand", but most of the current "Xianju Dongkui Bayberry" are counterfeit, and the maturity time is not yet enough.
Water chestnut bayberry is native to Yuyao, also called "Yuyao bayberry", its fruit is relatively small, the shape looks like water chestnut, thus taking the name of "water chestnut bayberry". Late rice bayberry is mainly distributed in Zhoushan, Zhejiang, and Ding Ao bayberry is produced in Wenzhou, Zhejiang. Except for the water chestnut bayberry, which can ripen in mid-to-early June, the other three types of bayberry in the main production areas of Zhejiang are mostly mature after late June.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="26" > Wuyue Bayberry and Lingnan Lychee</h1>
For many Zhejiang people, bayberry is a childhood fruit and the most anticipated local seasonal fruit. In the past, Zhejiang Bayberry was a fruit that was "unique to my hometown and has no foreign land". But today, bayberry has formed a planting scale in many provinces in southern China. For example, Yunnan Yangmei, which was listed very early, has a large market advantage because of its early listing, and the sales channel of Yunnan Yangmei has been opened nationwide. This year's retail price of Yunnan bayberry is generally 12-25 yuan / catty, and the price is higher than that of lychee. In the later period, after a large number of Zhejiang bayberry is listed, the price of bayberry may continue to decline, but after a large number of Guangdong lychee are listed, the price of lychee will also decline. The retail price of bayberry should always be higher than that of lychee.
Su Dongpo said: "Minguang lychee, Western cool grapes, not as wuyue bayberry."
From the price point of view, the price of bayberry this year is higher than that of lychee.
But from the perspective of popularity, the popularity of Zhejiang Bayberry is not as good as Guangdong Lychee, Yangmei's "fanatical fans" are mostly Jiangnan people, in the eyes of many northerners, Bayberry is a very strange fruit, the flavor is somewhat sour, it looks soft. Over the years, bayberry has been sold in major cities in the north and south of China. Only in the north, compared to the sweetness of bayberry, more people are still accustomed to eating the sweetness of lychee.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="29" > the sweet-sour dispute of bayberry</h1>
Nowadays, in order to raise its eyebrows in non-traditional eating areas, bayberry has also grown a very sweet bayberry through planting technology and variety improvement, which has a very low acidity and a refreshing flavor. Originally thought that this was a progress of Yangmei, but in the eyes of many "old fans" of Yangmei, this is Yangmei's betrayal. They think that bayberry should be sweet and sour, and it is okay to be sour, but it can't be too sweet, too sweet is not a good bayberry.
A few days ago, some consumers bought bayberry, and as a result, they tasted so sweet that they suspected that bayberry had a sweetener, otherwise how could bayberry be so sweet? So he reported the merchant who sold sweet bayberry. Fortunately, after testing, bayberry is normal "sweet" and there is no sweetener.
The "sweet and sour dispute" of bayberry is somewhat similar to the "sweet and salty dispute" in the salty tofu brain in the north and the sweet tofu brain in the south. Some people want to make bayberry sweeter, and some people want to make bayberry a little sour. Yangmei is currently a dilemma situation, but also to meet the tastes of new consumer groups, but also to take care of the tastes of old fans. When some northerners eat bayberry for the first time, if the bayberry is too sour, many people will feel sour and give up eating bayberry again. Some old users of bayberry in the south think that bayberry is too sweet, and they will think that bayberry is too sweet. In short, bayberry is too sweet to do, too sour or medium.
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This year, the fruits that compete against Zhejiang Bayberry are Guangdong Lychee and Shandong Big Cherry. However, the price of lychees and large cherries is not the same this year. The price of yunnan early ripening bayberry has also fallen somewhat, but Zhejiang bayberry relies on its regional brand power and traditional regional consumer groups, and perhaps the price can swim against the current and sit on the "first chair" of this year's fruits, becoming the most luxurious seasonal fruit this year.
Overall, bayberry is still a semi-niche fruit. In addition to the sweet-sour dispute, some people are more offended by the fruit fly larvae in the bayberry. In mid-to-late June, fruits such as bayberry are very easy to provoke fruit flies, fruit flies after laying eggs on bayberry, the larvae will hide in the bayberry, although these fruit fly larvae do not affect the normal consumption of bayberry, but there is a psychological shadow for some consumers. Before the popularity of bayberry, the influencing factors of fruit flies were also to be considered.
If the three fruits of bayberry, lychee and big cherry have the same price, which one will you choose to eat?