Fujian Daily, New Fujian Client December 25 news "eat golden dates, good year" is the New Year's buzzword in southern Fujian. As the Footsteps of the Spring Festival approach, by-products such as golden jujube candied fruit and salted jujube, which means full of happiness and prosperity, are popular in the Spring Festival market.
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The skin of the lower river jujube fruit is thin and tender, round and full, orange yellow and golden, and the jujube skin is like a young orange, which is famous for its good color and fragrance. According to the "Yunxiao County Chronicle", "For a long time, the production of golden dates was limited to cultivation in the area of Xiahe Village. Xiahe jujube is exported to Singapore and other Southeast Asian countries and Hong Kong, Guangdong Chaoshan region and Zhao'an County, as a raw material for jujube refined products. "Jujube products are mainly salty and sweet two categories, of which the longer the salty jujube products are stored, the more significant the medicinal value, and its prominent effects are consumption, rational qi, distention, promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, anti-alcohol, shengjin, expectorant, cough, is a good medicine for gastrointestinal surgery patients to remove flatulence after surgery; sweet jujube is a good product in festive seasons, commonly including honey jujube and ice jujube.
In recent years, Xiahe Township adheres to the jujube industry as a characteristic industry, rich industry to cultivate, the current township planting jujube area of 12,000 mu, output value of 20 million yuan, the jujube industry to promote the Xiahe Township agricultural efficiency, farmers increase income has a decisive role. With the increasingly prominent industrial benefits of the Lower River Jujube industry, the planting scale of the Lower River Jujube has gradually expanded, and some villagers in the adjacent Mapu Township and Huotian Town have also planted it, and the Mapu fruit farmers have also used the jujube as an ornamental flower and tree, cultivated the potted jujube, the potted jujube leaves are thick green, the branches are dense, the tree posture is upright, the aroma is strong, and it is a good product for beautifying the garden. The extension of the industrial chain of the lower river jujube has made more and more people in mountainous areas take advantage of the "jujube" to realize the dream of getting rich.
Source: New Fujian