In the section of "Wisdom to Take the Birthday Gang" in the "Water Margin", Chao Gai, Wu Yong and seven other people disguised themselves as merchants selling dates, plus Bai Sheng, who sold wine, and used MengHan medicine to turn Yang Zhi and others upside down and take away the Birthday Gang.
In "Wisdom To take the Birthday Program", Chao Gai and others dressed up as sellers of dates
It is said that in the middle of summer, dates are not harvested. But dates can be dried to make sweet dates. Chao Gai and a group of seven people in a group of seven people on the sack on the sack contained dried dates.
In "Water Margin", there are also many mentions of pastries made of dates - jujube cakes. DaiZong and Li Kui went to ask Gongsun Sheng to help attack Gaotang Prefecture, and Gongsun Sheng only ate vegetarian food, and Li Kui went to buy him jujube cakes to eat.
Jujube is a traditional fruit in China, and it has a long history of cultivation in China. In China's earliest poetry collection "Book of Poetry" (about the Western Zhou Period), there is a sentence "Peel the dates in August, harvest the rice in October", and at that time began to pick dates and eat dates.
Jujube is cultivated in a wide area in China, especially in the northern region of China. It has many advantages that other fruit trees such as peaches, pears, and apples do not have. For example, jujube trees are tolerant of salinity, drought, and barrenness. Nowadays, there are also many varieties of dates, according to incomplete statistics, there are large dates, small dates, round dates, long dates, and then we in Binzhou City, Shandong Province, have pushed "winter dates" and so on in recent years.
Fresh dates hanging from the branches
According to plant taxonomy, jujubes should belong to the family Lyceum. There is a wild shrub called sour dates and dates are related to some extent. But the dates are sweet and delicious, but the sour dates are incredibly sour. Because there are many varieties of dates, different dates have different tricks to eat. Many dates are best picked and eaten fresh, such as the winter dates that have been vigorously promoted by many districts and counties in the north of Binzhou City, Shandong Province over the years. There are also many varieties of dates that are dried and eaten to be more delicious, such as the golden silk jujube in Leling, Dezhou, northwest of Shandong, and the Xinjiang Hotan jujube that has been advertised and sold on the e-commerce platform in recent years. These dates are more suitable for drying or drying to eat dry goods, and the jujube core is small, the flesh is more, can fill the stomach and replenish calories and so on.
Dried dates
It can be seen that this jujube can be eaten as both a fruit and a dried fruit. Traditionally, though, it is treated as a fruit.
In addition to eating fresh dates and sun-dried dates. Dates can also continue to be deeply processed to produce a lot of delicious food. For example, in the pastry, there are delicious date cakes, date steamed buns, date dumplings and so on. Dates are processed to make delicious foods such as dates and drunken dates. Our food enterprises in Shandong Province have combined ejiao and dates to produce ejiao dates, which are very delicious and popular with consumers. Many years ago, a winemaking company in Shandong Province even brewed a kind of golden jujube wine, but now it is no longer seen in the market.
Golden jujube wine
Date cake
Ejiao dates
Dates
In addition to jujube as a fruit, jujube flowers, jujube trees, and jujube trees also have many uses. Jujube flowers are very small, but the aroma is charming, and it is an important target for bees to collect honey - there are two most popular honeys in the northern region, one is locust nectar, and the other is date nectar. Jujube trees have deep roots, drought tolerance and barrenness, and planting jujube trees can play a role in windproof and sand fixing to improve soil. Jujube is very strong and is a good wood.
Jujube flowers
Jujube
The history of planting jujube trees in China is very long, and this jujube tree can be planted in pieces (large-scale planting) and can be used as a courtyard green landscape plant. Lu Xun once wrote in the article, "In my back garden, I can see two trees outside the wall, one is a jujube tree, and the other is also a jujube tree. ", indicating that jujube trees are really very common.
Jujube is a traditional Chinese fruit with a long history. The jujube tree is a very useful plant. In the northern region, jujube trees are everywhere, and they are planted in many places.