Lingbei Town, Yudu County, Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province, is located in the north-central part of the county, 13 kilometers away from the county seat, where the sun is abundant, the land is fertile and moist, and the natural conditions are very superior, which is very suitable for planting fruit trees and vegetable production. The town's Changfu Village is a famous "persimmon town" in Jiangxi Province.
Nowadays, the autumn colors are brilliant, walking on the hillside of the countryside in Lingbei Town or behind the house in the village, the persimmon trees are full of fruits, and the persimmon fruits are bright red and yellow, and the persimmon fruits are hanging high on the branches, bright and dazzling, very pleasant. As Su Dongpo said, "Persimmon leaves are full of red fruits in autumn", Du Fu said that "it is when ten thousand red leaves are full".
Persimmon tree is a deciduous tree of the persimmon family, the trunk is upright, the tree is 6 to 14 meters high, the canopy is huge, the shade is like a cover in midsummer, the golden autumn leaves are red like Dan, and the tree posture is beautiful.
The hometown of persimmon trees is China. As early as the Qin and Han dynasties more than 2,000 years ago, people already knew to eat persimmons. In the book "Book of Rites", persimmons with chestnuts, dates, hazelnuts, melons, peaches, plums, plums, apricots, etc., are listed as edible fruits. During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, persimmon trees were selected along with many flowers and trees and planted in the Fuli Palace in Hancheng County, Shaanxi Province. After the Song Dynasty, persimmon trees were widely planted and used to prepare for famine.
In xu Guangqi's "Complete Book of Agricultural Administration" of the Ming Dynasty, it is said that "there are many persimmons in the Qinjian of the Three Jin Dynasties, and the fine people do it as grain, and the same is true in Qilu, Zhongzhou", so it can be seen that persimmons are a kind of "woody grain", and once planted, they can be harvested in a hundred years, and are known as "the treasure of preparation".
In the Tang Dynasty, the "Youyang Miscellaneous Tricks" said that persimmon trees have seven absolutes: one longevity, two shades, three no bird's nests, four no insects, five frost leaves to play, six jiashi, and seven fallen leaves are fat. These seven points are all persimmon trees, which are beyond the reach of other trees. It is precisely because of the fat leaves that some people used it to practice words in ancient times. Tang Dynasty writer, calligrapher, painter Zheng Qian, when he was young, his family was poor, learning books and suffering from no paper, because Ci'en Temple has a large persimmon tree, leaves can be covered with several rooms, he borrowed a monk's room to live, every day to take persimmon leaves to write, almost all the leaves on the whole tree in a year; his calligraphy finally achieved great success, he can also poetry, good at painting landscapes, so his works on persimmon leaves, for a time called "Zheng Qian Three Absolute".
Persimmon, soft and juicy flesh, sweet but not greasy, after astringency for fruit, suitable for both young and old, can be stored for several months, can also be processed into persimmon cake, the white frost on the persimmon cake is swept off, can be used as a substitute for white sugar. Persimmons are rich in carotene, vitamin C, glucose, fructose and minerals such as calcium, phosphorus, and iron.
There are about 800 kinds of persimmon trees cultivated in China, and the more famous ones are the big cap persimmon in North China, the yellow persimmon of chicken heart in Sanyuan, Shaanxi, the golden bottle persimmon in Qingdao, and the copper plate persimmon in Hangzhou. The tip persimmon in Fuping, Shaanxi, tastes sweet; the fire crystal persimmon in Lintong, Shaanxi, with a thin and juicy skin; the sweetener persimmon in Yixian County, Hebei Province, tastes as sweet as honey. In addition, hunan longtong belt persimmon, Guangdong and Guangxi beef heart persimmon, large tomato and Jiangxi Yudu large box persimmon are also good products.
Persimmons can be divided into two categories: sweet persimmons and astringent persimmons, ripe sweet persimmons can be eaten after harvesting; after harvesting, because of the large amount of soluble tannins (tannic acid), it must be deastringent before eating.
Persimmons are delicious, but should not be consumed in excess. In the "Famous Doctor's Catalogue", it is said, "Raw persimmons are cold, and the bottom heart persimmons are especially inedible." There is a folk saying that persimmons cannot be eaten with crabs. There is some scientific truth to this. Because crab meat is rich in protein, and persimmons contain more tannins, both eat at the same time, tannins will make protein in the stomach into coagulated hard blocks, causing indigestion, causing stomach pain, and even causing persimmon stone disease. In addition, immature persimmons contain tannin, the taste is not good, it is best to eat after cooking thoroughly, diabetics fast.
Persimmons can also be medicated to stop bleeding and moisten stools, alleviate hemorrhoids, swelling and pain, and lower blood pressure. Persimmon can cure hiccups and other diseases; persimmon cake charcoal can cure blood in the stool; persimmon cream can cure sore throat, cough and other diseases. Raw persimmon can refine persimmon paint, which is a preservative for painting umbrellas, fishing nets, filling ship seams and building materials. Wood can be used as a spinning wooden shuttle, spool, furniture, box, fiddle and string shaft for violin. Persimmon leaves contain vitamin C, rutin, choline, flavonoid glycosides, etc., which have the effect of stabilizing blood pressure, clearing blood and reducing inflammation, and softening blood vessels. In recent years, some places have also often used persimmon leaves to make tea, or mixed with tea leaves for drinking, called "persimmon tea".
Nowadays, the party committee and government of Lingbei Town, Yudu County, adhere to overall planning, pay attention to scientific development, while integrating the planting and processing of persimmon products, taking the construction of new rural areas as an opportunity, focusing on cultivating five major agricultural characteristic industries such as large boxes of persimmons, navel oranges, dairy cows, commercial fish, vegetables, melons and fruits, and are following the development idea of "agricultural stability town, industrial revitalization town, commercial and trade town, and development of strong town", to achieve agricultural industrialization, rural urbanization, and peasant citizenization.