In autumn and winter, we always have a seasonal fruit on our table - winter dates, although winter dates are planted in Hebei Huanghua, Henan, etc., but what cannot be avoided is binzhou's dipped winter dates. The fertile land of the Yellow River Delta on the Lubei Plain has made the entire County synonymous with winter dates.
The vast planting area of dipped winter dates, the sweetness and crispness of jujubes are drooling, and the planting area of more than 600,000 mu of winter dates makes the air not only filled with sweet breath, but also makes the ecological winter jujube tourism here attract tourists from all over the country. Traveling to Zhuanhua can not only eat authentic winter dates, but also enter the fields to have a close contact with the jujube trees, and breathe in the free and sweet rural monsoon.
Xiawa Town is the main production area of winter jujube, there is a winter jujube eco-tourism area, but more popular for tourists and must come to a group photo is an ancient tree known as "Winter Jujube Ancestral Tree".
The winter jujube tree is located in the courtyard of the Winter Jujube Research Institute (the eco-tourism area is diagonally opposite the east of Fumin Street Road), which is where the current YuShende Memorial Hall is located, this jujube tree grows in addition to being about 6 meters high and the canopy diameter is more than 10 meters tall and luxuriant, it seems that there is not much peculiarity, but this not unusual tree is the mother tree of all the winter jujube trees in the lower depression.
The story of the winter jujube tree also has to talk about the origin of the winter jujube in Xiawa Town, in the Zhuanhua area, the ancient jujube tree was an auspicious tree in the local family courtyard, it is said that only happy events or major events can be eaten, and this winter jujube tree was planted in the courtyard of a villager in Pingjia Village.
The winter jujube tree is said to have begun in the Ming Dynasty (about 1400 AD), when the Yan king Zhu Di was moving north, a large jujube tree suffered a lightning strike, but then the roots of this tree were dead and not stiff, and new branches grew from the ground, perhaps the lightning strike made the jujube tree mutated, its dates are crisper and sweeter, and this newborn jujube tree is more than 300 years old.
Later, the local development of winter jujube, because of this jujube tree, scion grafted jujube trees are from this ancient jujube tree, that is, the winter jujube we eat now is produced by the jujube trees of its descendants.
In order to better protect this jujube tree, today's winter jujube ancestral tree was transplanted from Pingjia Village and was also listed in the list of key cultural relics protection units at the county level. The old trees that are still leafy are old and strong, and can still have a yield of about 300 kilograms per year, but if they want to eat its dates, the average person is reluctant to eat it, and it is said that it has sold for nearly a thousand yuan a catty.
On the side of the winter jujube tree is the Winter Jujube Research Institute, and various varieties of jujube trees are dazzling, but for the layman, we can't understand it, we can only say that there are different brands of winter jujube!
There is a small two-story building at the entrance of the institute, which is the Yushende Memorial Hall.
Yu Shende was the founder of the first rural party branch in Zhanhua, born in 1907 in Yujia Village in Xiawa, and was the first Communist Party member in Zhanhua District. In 1942, Yu Shende was seriously wounded and captured in the battle with the Japanese Kou, and heroically rebelled. The memorial hall uses pictures, physical displays, multimedia, etc., to show Yu Shende's life deeds.
The first floor of the small building uses a large area to tell the development of dipped winter dates and the current status of the winter jujube industry.
Winter jujube has now become the business card of the dipping, and the story of the winter jujube is still continuing, the former courtyard economy, now has become an eco-tourism industry, but no matter how beautiful the dip scenery becomes, we should all take a look at this winter jujube ancestral tree, after all, the winter jujube today comes from its yesterday!