Pomegranate tree Pomegranate flower Pomegranate fruit (meet)

Source: People's Daily

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When I went to Xingyang, Henan, I wanted to see pomegranates. The last time I went to Xingyang was in May this year. But I saw the mountains all over the field, thick green branches, and fiery red dots. That time I saw Brother Li, a large pomegranate planter, with a face full of pride, pointing to the crowd near and far, and said: "This has become a place for Internet celebrities to punch cards, today you came early, if you wait a little longer, there will be more people." ”

When you look closely, it is even more intoxicating. Pomegranate peanuts are found on the top of branches or leaf axils, and the calyxes are waxy smooth, red or white, single or heavy petals, gourd-shaped or flared. Brother Li on the side is a familiar meeting, through the simplicity and directness of the Central Plains people, seeing that I am obsessed, hey hey a smile, know how to look at the doorway, do not understand the liveliness. This flower is a male flower, it is a female flower that looks like a gourd, it can bear pomegranates, and it is a male flower that looks like a trumpet, and it cannot bear fruit. This made me sigh about "knowledge." We always think that we are knowledgeable people, but we do not know three hundred and sixty lines, and we do not know the elements.

This time I came to Xingyang, which coincided with the ripening of pomegranates in August. From Zhengzhou to get off the high-speed train, drive out of Zhengzhou city, into Xingyang along the Yellow Expressway, and then to Xingliu Avenue, regardless of the dense pomegranate stalls on both sides of the road, we went straight to Liugou Village in Yingling, north of Xingyang. Liugou Village, named after the villagers living in a narrow ravine, was once a well-known provincial poor village.

I live in the farm of the fruit grower Lao Liu. The farm is connected to the pomegranate garden and is both a sightseeing picking point and an e-commerce shop. The clean courtyard is dotted with a few pomegranate trees with tables and chairs under the trees. Outside the courtyard, there are several vegetable fields, cucumbers and leeks and eggplant, etc., and a garden is fragrant.

Old Liu was cooking, saw me coming, wiped the sweat from his face, and asked where did he come from? I say Beijing. "Oh, I've met your guest!" Old Liu hurriedly pulled up a bench and panicked to pour tea, which made me embarrassed: "Which is a distinguished guest, I am a fellow countryman, and I went out from here." ”

"Fellow, fellow", old Liu Nian was going to take me to the garden to see pomegranates, and he probably thought I was in the pomegranate business.

"I'm just going to come and see." Seeing me explaining in a hurry, Old Liu Haha smiled and said, "Then it might as well be, then it might as well be, fellow countrymen talk." "The psychological distance is closer, and there is something to talk about. While greeting the guests, Lao Liu chatted with me, intermittently, and I knew some of the situation in his home. This is a farm family that has suffered a lot. Eight years ago, Lao Liu's wife had been lying in bed, looking for hospitals in Wuhan and Zhengzhou, and owed a lot of debts. Old Liu was reluctant to let the two children drop out of school, so he held on hard. The leader of the poverty alleviation task force Yan came to the door and gave him five thousand yuan, saying that the soil here is good, and there is a tradition of planting pomegranates, a cooperative has been set up in the village, and the technicians and sales channels have also been found, so you can plant pomegranates! He did not dare to take this stubble, fearing that there was a risk. Group Leader Yan went to look for him for several days, and then simply bought two hundred pomegranate seedlings for twenty yuan each and pulled him to plant them. He never expected that three years later, two hundred trees would earn more than 20,000 yuan.

Now his pomegranate garden has more than 30 acres, with an annual income of more than 500,000 yuan, and the people in the city have furniture and electrical appliances at home, equipped with three cars, and bought a commercial house in Zhengzhou, and his wife's illness has also improved greatly.

"The leader of the Yan group is a graduate of Henan Agricultural University, pomegranate planting density, soil fertilizer and water management, prevention and control of pests and diseases, plastic pruning. It also teaches us how to harvest, grade, package, and sell. ”

Old Liu sighed, "I owe people the affection of The Leader of yan." The old man of his family died, and he went back to the village in two or three hours. Come to the villagers' homes for a meal and pay money. People are not related to us, what is the picture? ”

Listening to Lao Liu's emotional words, my eyes were also moist. I asked, "Is Group Leader Yan gone?" "Gone, two consecutive terms in the village, six years." I originally wanted a child, but when I came to the village, I didn't want it. The quality of our pomegranates here is no problem, if it has been selling well, the price is high, and the goods are not pressed, the situation will be better. ”

Early the next morning, I urged Lao Liu to go to the pomegranate garden. When we got to the garden, the big pomegranates were shiny, orange-yellow, copper-colored, yellow-red. From time to time, ripe pomegranates can be seen, bursting the belly, revealing full, crystal clear seeds. Lao Liu said that a tree should bear fifty or sixty or even more than a hundred pomegranates. Pomegranate trees, pomegranate flowers, pomegranate fruits, beautiful scenery, gifts to mankind.

"Old Liu, have the goods from Guangdong been sent out?" Following the prestige, a tall man was walking towards here. Lao Liu said that his surname was Li and he was the secretary of the party branch and the director of the cooperative in Liugou Village. Hearing that I was a fellow countryman, Secretary Li was very enthusiastic: "I stare here every day, and now there are fewer scattered sales, most of which are sent to other places." Integrity is the first, when sorting, the appearance is generally according to copper, iron, flower skin three, the grain taste is generally sweet, sour two. Our heyin pomegranate skin is thin, easy to break, must be taken lightly, especially careful. ”

Secretary Li said, and picked a pomegranate from the tree. I was not polite, gently peeled off, only to see the full of pomegranate seeds snuggled tightly together, it is "a thousand rooms in the same membrane, a thousand children are one."

Pomegranate seeds are crimson and intoxicating. Eat a few grains, moderately sweet and sour, full of cheeks, especially in this pomegranate garden, more flavorful. Secretary Li said: To see whether a pomegranate is ripe, it depends on whether it is "square", if there is a ridge, it has become a polygon, and the skin is yellow and red, that is ripe. Round and slippery, it looks good, but it is not cooked thoroughly. "Our per capita annual income in Liugou Village in 2018 reached more than 40,000 yuan, and more than 360 villagers had 550 private cars, which is a beautiful rural demonstration village in Zhengzhou." Look at his expression, full of happiness.

When I arrived in Zhengzhou on the same day, I followed the phone number given by Lao Liu and found The leader of the poverty alleviation task force that had been stationed in the village for six years. He's a non-verbal person, even a little shy. Hearing me say that the villagers all praised him, Group Leader Yan smiled lightly and said, "It was all arranged organizationally, and I didn't do anything." "But when it comes to pomegranates, Group Leader Yan's words are more." The soil in the northern Yingling area of Xingyang is fertile, watered by the Yellow River, with long sunshine hours, large temperature differences between day and night, and a tradition of pomegranates in history, but the varieties are not good enough. Let's go to poverty alleviation, watch the masses suffer so much, can we not hold our nerve to do things for the people? We studied together with the relevant municipal departments and determined that Liugou Village was the pioneer village and main production area of heyin pomegranate base, and did a little thing in the improvement of pomegranate varieties and road construction, the transformation of village houses, and the construction of pomegranate trading and distribution bases. Later, it gradually formed the pomegranate industrial belt in the north of The Yin Pomegranate Industry Belt, which was dominated by eighteen villages in the five townships of Gaocun, Guangwu, Wangcun, Fenshui and Gaoshan. Watching the people get rich and happy, we also feel that it is worth it. ”