European apple cultivation originated in Greece. With the discovery of the New World 300 years ago, apples were introduced from Europe to America, Japan introduced cultivation from Europe and America during the Meiji Restoration, and modern cultivated apples were introduced to Asia. Since then, Australia and Africa have also introduced planting.
Cotton apples originated in China, recorded in Qin and Han Dynasties, and cultivated in Wei and Jin Dynasties. Qian and Lin Ling are discussed in detail in Jia Sixie's Book of Qi Yaomin. Now it's apples, including betel nuts. Lingling is a sand fruit, so apples have been cultivated in China for more than two thousand years. There are still cotton apples in Shaanxi, Gansu, Xinjiang, Qinghai and other places, and Hexi Corridor is its central producing area. At present, most of the economically cultivated varieties are imported from abroad, called West Apple, with a cultivation history of less than 200 years.
plum
It is the fruit of Prunus mume, a deciduous tree in Rosaceae. Originally from China, it has been cultivated in China for at least 3000 years. It has many varieties and different colors. When the fruit is ripe in summer and autumn, it is full, round, delicate, beautiful in shape and sweet in taste, and it is one of the traditional fruits that people like to eat.
Lee, lee. -Shuo Wen
There are plums in Beishan. -The Book of Songs? Xiaoya? There is a platform in Nanshan.
China is one of the cradles of pear trees. Pak Lei, Shari and Qiuzi pears cultivated in China all originated in China. According to the book of songs, the book of Qi Yaomin and other ancient books, the history of pear cultivation in China is over 4,000 years. Pear trees belong to the north and south of China, and pears are also fruit. -"Shuo Wen"
Gui Jiang. -The Book of Rites
One of the most common fruit trees everywhere.
China is one of the important origins of citrus, with rich citrus resources and excellent varieties, and its cultivation history is over 4,000 years. Citrus is native to China.
According to the ancient book Gong Yu, oranges produced in Jiangsu, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hunan, Hubei and other places in China have been listed as tributes in the Xia Dynasty 4000 years ago. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, citrus production developed further. Biography of Su Zou in Historical Records (written by Sima Qian in the Western Han Dynasty) records that "Qi Bitong is a sea of fish and salt, and Chu Bitong is a garden of oranges and pomelo", which shows that citrus production in Chu (Hubei, Hunan and other places) is as important as fish and salt production in Qi (Shandong and other places).
During the Tang and Song Dynasties, with the development of economy, the regional distribution of citrus production was roughly the same as that of modern citrus in China. The Book of the New Tang Dynasty written by Ouyang Xiu in Song Dynasty? Geographical records listed Sichuan, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, southern Anhui, Henan, Jiangsu and Shaanxi, and presented oranges to the court. At that time, every household planted oranges wherever the climate was suitable for citrus cultivation, and everyone liked to eat them.
Cen Can, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, said in his poem: "Oranges are planted in the courtyard, and half kinds of tea are planted in the courtyard." . In the Tang Dynasty, there was a poem in Wei Dynasty: "It's pity that you are still thinking about new oranges when you are sick, but it's not yellow when you try to pick them." During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the citrus industry developed into the era of commodity production. In the Qing Dynasty, the book Nanfeng Customs Records recorded that in Nanfeng, Jiangxi and other places, the whole village "did not do farm work, but only planted oranges". "Fujian Miscellaneous Notes" (Qing? Shi Hongbao remembers that outside Fuzhou, "there are dozens of acres of land, all of which are planted with oranges". "Lingnan Miscellanies" (Qing? Wu Zhenfang) recorded: "There is very little arable land in Guangzhou, and people grow many kinds of oranges for profit.