When Xinjiang walked through the unresolved March of ice and snow, when the apricot blossoms in Turpan had bloomed lively, and after more than a month, Xinjiang's fruit season had begun.
Xinjiang is known as the land of fruits, and the fruits here are loved for their high sweetness.
This is inseparable from Xinjiang's geographical and climatic conditions. Xinjiang has long sunshine hours and a large temperature difference between day and night, and even in the hot summer, the temperature difference between day and night is about ten degrees.
There is a proverb in Xinjiang: wear a leather veil in the morning and eat watermelon around the stove.
In June, when the mainland capital has begun to enter the mid-summer season, for some parts of Xinjiang, it seems that they are still tied up by winter. In the mountains, even in the summer, as soon as the sun sets, the temperature drops.
When I was a child, I lived in the stone yard next to the S101 provincial road, and even in the hottest summer, I only had three or four hours at noon to wear a skirt.
I remember one year, my aunt made me a dress, so from the day I received it, I began to look forward to the arrival of summer. Finally summer came, the morning is not worn, too cold, the evening is also not able to wear, too cold, only at noon should eat that will be able to wear, but after four o'clock in the afternoon, my mother will let me change into long clothes and trousers, because the temperature is starting to gradually become cooler.
Although the global climate is warming today, in the mountains, after six or seven o'clock in the afternoon, the temperature is still relatively cool. If it is in a deep mountainous area, at night, the house will still be lit by fire.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="10" > the apricot blossoms of Turpan bloom first in March, corresponding to the early ripening of apricots here</h1>
For the mainland, the "Spring River Plumbing Duck Prophet", when spring comes, the first to feel the spring is the duck in the water.
But in Xinjiang, the first to sense spring are the apricot blossoms in the Turpan Basin. After the apricot blossoms here have bloomed, the apricot blossoms in other parts of Xinjiang have begun to bloom in the second place, and the last to bloom is about the apricot blossoms near Urumqi.
I remember that two years ago, when I went to Solbastao on May Day, when I passed the village there, I didn't see the apricot blossoms on the apricot blossom trees outside the village, and at that time, the apricots of Turpan were already on the market. Only in June will the apricot blossoms in the south mountains bloom.
For apricots, this fruit, perhaps not too many people like it, most people do not like its taste.
In folk, apricots are the favorite of pregnant women, when a married lady suddenly likes to eat apricots on a certain day, and it is sour apricots, then she is 80% happy.
Because of the acidity of apricots, many foodies have a little hesitation when eating it.
But most apricots in Xinjiang are sweet, because the sunshine time in Xinjiang determines the sugar content of the fruit.
There are many varieties of apricots in Xinjiang, the apricots in Turpan are pear-light apricots, and the Toxon, which is not too far from Turpan, is the Suledan apricot, also known as the Toxon apricot, both of which belong to the early ripening varieties. This is also the reason why the apricot blossoms bloom first in these two years of each year.
Both types of apricots are juicy and sweet. Every year after May 1, the first batch of early ripening apricots is on the market.
At this time, for northern Xinjiang, its spring has just arrived, but the spring wind blows on the body with a chill.
But in southern Xinjiang, it is already a spring breeze and a warm breeze, this time to Turpan, the weather is not too hot, but the various plants here are already green. If you want to see the desert scenery, the Shanshan Kumutag Desert not far from Turpan is a good place to go, where you don't have to worry about getting lost in the desert, but also fully appreciate the different scenery of the desert scenery.
In addition to playing, taste the first batch of fresh apricots in Xinjiang, and then taste the first spring light in Xinjiang.
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After Walking through May, Xinjiang is about to usher in a hot summer, and before the arrival of this hot summer, a very famous apricot in Xinjiang has matured, it is the small white apricot of Kucha, the small white apricot is different from other apricots, it is not large, but the meat is juicy, its color is not as bright as the color of other apricots, yellow is a little white, its appearance looks very low-key, but its taste is amazing.
Pick a grain thrown in the mouth, there is no imaginary sourness, some are just full of sweet grain, the apricot meat swallowed into the stomach, the small apricot core in the mouth is always reluctant to spit out, only with a light bite of the teeth, the almond core has been broken, the almonds inside with a crisp and sweet aroma, until this time, a small white apricot is considered to be a perfect eating.
Kucha, a new city that has only been transformed from a county to a city in recent years, in the ancient western region is the important town on the Silk Road - Guizi, buddhism that spread from ancient India to the Central Plains, most of which was introduced from here, and thus left a lot of famous Thousand Buddha Caves here, and the famous master Kumarosh in Western Buddhism is here. Beyond the Cave of the Thousand Buddhas in Kyzyl, there is a statue of him.
After seeing the Thousand Buddha Cave and crossing the Duku Highway in reverse, you can feel the charm of this heroic highway.
Along the way, the mysterious Grand Canyon of the Tianshan Mountains, the large and small dragon ponds and other scenery are also unforgettable. When you cross the Tielimati Tunnel and cross the Tian shan, you can see the most beautiful scenery on the Duku Highway, from here all the way to Jorma, you will drive all the way and marvel all the way.
Of course, if you don't want to go back into the duku, then the kucha is also good, the kucha palace in the city is worth visiting, but you must enter at the open time, otherwise you will be stopped outside the door, it is said that there is still the last princess living there, during the visit time, you can also visit her life up close.
If such a journey is accompanied by small white apricots, it will be much sweeter. And the little white apricot that makes you fall in love with one bite can only satisfy the carnival of the tip of your tongue here.
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Apricots are a very difficult to preserve fruit, in addition to apricots, there is a precious fruit in Xinjiang is also extremely difficult to preserve - figs, in order to allow people to taste the taste of these fruits for a long time, for Xinjiang with excellent climatic conditions, they are the best choice to make dried fruits.
As a result, there are many air-dried foods in Xinjiang, starting with dried fruits and going all the way to beef and mutton jerky. But wherever food can be dried and preserved, Xinjiang people will use wind and heat a lot.
Just as Turpan has many drying rooms, they are all used to dry grapes.
For apricots and figs, most are dried directly on the ground.
I remember seeing netizens say before that they saw a lot of apricots falling on the road in Xinjiang and no one cared about them, so he (she) picked up some. Later, some people commented that the apricots were not ownerless apricots, but were used by local apricot farmers to dry apricots.
Drying is still somewhat unsafe (there will be unsuspecting people to pick up, or accidentally crushed) and hygiene (apricots will spoil if they are not stored well after leaving the trunk, and there will be a lot of soil on the dried fruit after drying on the ground). Of course, most of the apricots are still dried on the shelf.
So there is a kind of apricot, that is, it grows on the tree, if people do not pick it, it will shed its own moisture after maturity, and eventually become dry.
To tell the truth, such dried fruits have really reduced a lot of labor for the growers, and the local people call them "hanging (tree) dried apricots". In addition to apricots, there is also a kind of grape is also the case, people living under the grapevine, you can see a bunch of grapes in the vine blossoming, fruiting, ripening, dehydrated, into raisins, plant life is actually similar to human life.
And there are many such hanging tree trunk apricots in the streets of Ili.
When the time came to the end of June and the beginning of July, the temperature in southern Xinjiang was already unbearable, but the coolness of the wind could still be felt in Ili.
Walking the streets of Ili, in addition to admiring the charm of this ancient city's new look, you will be fascinated by its sweetness by picking an apricot with a hanging tree trunk.
Ili is a representative of Xinjiang's scenery, and if you swim through Ili every summer, you have seen most of the Xinjiang scenery.
But do you think you've swum past Ili and stopped worrying about Xinjiang? The reason why Ili can become Ili and the reason why it can become a representative of the scenery of Xinjiang is that you can go over and want to go again.
This is the charm of Ili, and it is also the charm of Xinjiang.
For Xinjiang, the annual fruit is only part of Xinjiang's charm. These fruits emit a sweet fragrance every season, which attracts foodies to Xinjiang. While tasting the fruits of Xinjiang, they also enjoyed the scenery and customs of Xinjiang.
The map with Xinjiang fruits is actually a different kind of Xinjiang tourism map.
Do you like apricots from Xinjiang? Will you come to Xinjiang during the apricot ripening season?
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