<h1>The fruit of the human heart | blossom in three thousand years, bear fruit in three thousand years, ripen in three thousand years, and eat for ten thousand years</h1>
It is said that in his youth, Wu Cheng'en went from Huai'an, Jiangsu Province, to the hometown of Taishang Laojun in Huizhou to visit Taishang Laojun and the ancestor of the earth immortals, Yuanzi, and after arriving in Huizhou Bitter County, he saw a fruit tree planted in the Yuanzi courtyard of Zhenyuan with child-like fruits hanging on it, and Wu Chengyin asked Zhen Yuanzi what kind of fruit tree was this? Answer: "This is a ginseng fruit, and eating it can live forever...".
Later, when Wu Cheng'en wrote "Journey to the West", he had such a passage: "The four Tang monks and apprentices came to the Wuzhuang Temple of Wanshou Mountain, and it was when the master Zhen Yuanzi went to the Yuan Shi Tianzun to listen to the Taoist teachings, and had already instructed the disciples Qingfeng and Mingyue to entertain the eastern monks with ginseng fruits. This ginseng fruit is a rare delicacy in the world, and one bite can prolong life and live forever. ”
However, when Tang Monk saw that the ginseng fruit was in the shape of a doll, he resolutely refused to eat it, which led to the joke of Qingfeng Mingyue. The Eight Precepts of the Pig coveted the delicacy of ginseng fruit, so they instigated his brother Sun Wukong to enter the garden to steal it. This move caused a dispute between Qingfeng Mingyue and the Tang monks and disciples, Sun Wukong was ashamed and angry and even interrupted the ginseng fruit tree, not knowing that this fruit met the soil, fell in the face of gold, withered in the face of wood, melted in the face of water, scorched in the face of fire, very precious, it takes three thousand years to blossom, three thousand years to bear fruit, three thousand years to mature, smell can live to three hundred and sixty years old, if you can eat one there is forty-seven thousand years of life, extraordinary people can enjoy.
Well, the story also says, but this legend of the immortal ginseng fruit actually appeared in the vegetable market, fruit stalls, although the appearance is quite cute, but it does not look like ginseng fruit at all, not like ginseng, why is it called ginseng fruit? It's a little hard to understand.
So what exactly is this ginseng fruit? It turns out that its name is melon eggplant, which makes some sense. Because of its pale yellow skin mixed with purple veins, and it is still solanaceous, it is somewhat similar to solanum. Its interior is also very similar to the melon, the flesh of the melon is light in color, white with yellow, while the flesh of ginseng is slightly darker and light yellow, and the taste is similar to that of the melon, and the sweet flesh is crisp.
But the problem comes again, this ginseng fruit (melon eggplant) is very different from the ginseng fruit I saw this time, it can be said that it is difficult to distinguish between true and false. It turns out that this ginseng fruit is called "human heart fruit", which may be the reason for Cantonese, "human heart fruit" and "ginseng fruit" are the same sound, making people stupid and unclear.
In fact, the heart fruit does not look like ginseng, it looks similar to kiwifruit, the surface is somewhat rough, but there is no hair, it is relatively hard to pinch lightly, and the fruit body is relatively large and only a little. Some people say it's called just because it looks a bit like a human heart. When cut open, the flesh color is lighter than the peel, the taste is OK, sweet and soft, and the taste is unique.
Then where is the divine fruit of this person's heart? Human heart fruit, also known as Wu Feng persimmon, red iron fruit, qi fruit, etc., is native to the tropical regions of the Americas, and is cultivated in Liangguang, Yunnan and Qiongmin and other regions of China. It is a species of cordonycena in the family Lameracae and is a tropical fruit tree with a wide range of uses. In addition to being edible, the fruit can also be processed into various canned foods such as jams and juices; its trunk milk is the raw material for the chewing gum we often chew; the bark contains plant alkalis, which can cure fever.
It is also worth mentioning that when the heart fruit is not ripe, it is rich in tannins, it is numb to eat, it is very hard to hang on the tree, it needs to be picked and stored for a few days, and when the fruit becomes soft, the taste naturally becomes sweet and delicious. It's like kiwifruit.
Evergreen and beautifully shaped, the heart fruit tree is a good landscaping tree species, which can be used as a street tree or planted in the garden for ornamentation, the only drawback is that it is not hardy and grows slowly. However, the heart fruit is currently a relatively rare fruit in China, the market prospect is very broad, friends with ideas may wish to consider it!