Peach is a small deciduous tree with fruit as fruit. Flowers are visible and fruits are juicy. It can be eaten raw or made into peaches and canned peaches, and its nucleolus can also be eaten. The flesh is white and yellow, and there are many varieties of peaches. Generally, the skin is hairy, and the skin of nectarine is smooth. The fruit of "Flat Peach" is flat and discoid; "Peach" is an ornamental peach tree with many petal forms.
Around the tenth century BC, there was a saying in the Book of Songs Feng Wei that "there are peaches in the garden, which is really confusing". "Feng Wei" refers to the cultivation of peaches in the gardens north of the Yellow River and in the vast areas of Shanxi today. It is naturally cultivated artificially, indicating that there has been a certain planting scale. Other ancient books, such as Guanzi, Shangshu, Han Feizi, Shan Hai Jing, Shilu Chunqiu, etc., all have records about peach trees, indicating that peach trees have spread all over the Yellow River valley in ancient times. The Book of Rites also said that peach was listed as one of the five fruits (plum, plum, apricot and jujube) sacrificed to the gods at that time.