Cherry red

The red cherry in May mentioned in this song vividly describes the beautiful mouth of the bride, which arouses our infinite beautiful imagination. It has been a habit of Chinese people since ancient times to compare the small mouth of beauty with cherry, and people still often use this word to describe beauty.

Cherry is a fruit that we are all familiar with. Cherry is also known as Oriole peach, containing peach, peach, cherry bead, home cherry, jingtao, English peach, lingying, wax cherry, Maiying, ya honey, zhu Guo and so on. Some people say that because the small and delicate yellow warbler is especially fond of pecking at the bright red fruit, people named it "Yingtao". Cherry is the fruit of rosaceae plant cherry, is listed earlier a tree fruit, known as "the first branch of fruit". Cherry fruit growth period is short, from flowering to harvest only 40 to 60 days. Cherries generally mature in early summer. In my hometown, there is a saying "Xiaomin sees three new". That is to say, when the xiaomin season comes, there are three crops that are ready for harvest: cherry, garlic and silkworm cocoon. Cherry fruit is small as pearl, but its color is red and bright and clean, exquisite like red agate gemstone, its taste sweet and slightly sour, can be eaten raw, pickled or as the ornament of other dishes food, popular. In the early summer evening, the family sitting on the sofa, watching TV, while tasting sweet cherries, what a pleasant thing!

Cherry is also a kind of fruit that scholars of all dynasties like, they also like to use beautiful language to describe cherry. Bai Juyi, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, wrote a song called "Wu Cherry" : "Peach is the most representative of Eastern Wu. Qiaqiaoqiaoqiao tens of millions of, whirling face two or three strains. The bird steals to fly place the bit will fire, the person fights to pick time to break the bead. Unfortunately, the wind and rain, after the Ming Dynasty should not." In the late Tang Dynasty, Li Shangyin wrote in "Cherry Answer" : All fruit mo yun, born famous high. Why ancient yue Fu, but zheng Cherry. Later PI Rixiu also wrote cherry poetry: graceful branches fragrant wine pot, the sun is suspected not to melt crisp. Late to wei hunrui drunk, but the spring alone to help. Southern Tang Feng Yanji said: melancholy wall east, a cherry tree with rain red. Green, a few red cherry leaves. Song Dynasty Chen Yiyi wrote: April jiangnan yellow bird fat, cherry can zhaohui city. Red ying plate is different, what narration cage phase play. And Song Dynasty Zhao Yanduan is this feeling of the passage of time: time is easy to throw people, red cherry, green banana. Xin Qiji, an outstanding patriotic lyricist, wrote a song called "Bodhisattva Man · On the banquet, a cherry was given to him" : "Fragrant floating cheese glass flow, every year drunk taste new habits. What is better than spring breeze? Song lips a little red. River's lake clear dream break, emerald cage bright light temple. Ten thousand write light uniform, bow the head kui savage."

Beautiful cherry, beautiful cherry blossom. Cherries are perennial deciduous trees. Every spring, it blossoms along with apricot, peach, pear and apple trees. When these fruit trees bloom, white like snow, pink such as rosy clouds, they together dress up the colorful spring. The beautiful cherry blossom has also become the object of literary chant. Tang Dynasty poet Zhang Hu wrote: "Pomegranate is still small, love this mountain flower four or five strains. The wind before the inclined day court curl, blue oil leakage red beads." Wei Zhuang, in the Tang Dynasty, was sad when he saw the cherry blossoms passing away. "I remember the first days when the branches were full of snow, and the bees and butterflies moved with their flowers. Now the flowers are gone, and are empty poems of melancholy."

Emperors and generals also loved cherries and cherry blossoms. In the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Emperor Xuandi of the Later Liang wrote a famous ode to cherries: The cherry was turned into a peach. Since leaving and spring, suddenly and winter ying. The anisaurus has no head, and the pendant is late. Birds fall when they eat, and rain falls when it rains. Did not see the beauty of the real, empty recommendation temple name. Such as grapefruit in eaves, pizhuzhao on the atrium. Different phoenix habitat, kui green bamboo of the constant zhen. To answer its beauty and evil, and shrug on the front lattice. Leaves and smoke and mask, long weak and wind. And to cover xi he, when the summer is sad and clear. Tang Taizong in "cherry spring rhyme poem" so said: "Hualin full fang jing, Luo Yang yangchun, not yan yun day, cui shade changjin." (www.sanwen.net)

Cherry originated in China, where the history of cherry cultivation has been more than 3,000 years. In the Book of Rites, there is a record that "on the day of midsummer, the temple will be recommended to the first". The peach here is the cherry. Archaeologists have excavated cherry seeds in shang Dynasty tombs, which fully shows that in the Yellow River valley of our country, the discovery and consumption of cherry history is much earlier. At present, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Shandong, Henan and other provinces in the Yangtze River basin and the Huang-Huai River Basin grow the most. The main varieties planted are anhui Taihe golden red cherry, Zhejiang Zhuji short stem cherry, other silver red peach, red red peach, early cherry, red xiantao, peach, grass cherry and other fine varieties.

Cherries are not only beautiful and delicious, but also good for human health. According to modern medical research, cherries contain high iron content, ranking first among all kinds of fruits. Regular consumption of cherries can supplement the body's iron needs and promote hemoglobin regeneration. Eat more cherries and cherry products, can enhance physical fitness, brain intelligence. Chinese medicine practitioners have long documented the effects of cherries and their roots in medical literature. Cherry warm, both tonzhong Yiqi work, can dispel wind and dehumidification, rheumatism waist and leg pain has good effect. Cherry root also has strong insect repellent, insecticidal effect, can kill roundworm, pinworm, tapeworm and so on.

People discover, cherry can treat burn scald, have astringent analgesia, prevent the effect of blister fester of wound place. Cherries can also treat mild and severe frostbite. In my hometown, there is a folk prescription that says that if a person's hands are ulcerated by cold in winter, if he washes his hands with cherry juice in the ripe season and does not eat cherries for three consecutive years, his hands will never be frostbitten again. Many people rely on this prescription to solve the pain of frostbite in winter. The conclusion that draws according to a few hairdressing experts says, commonly used cherry juice besmear brushes face and furrow place, can make facial skin ruddy tender white, go wrinkle elimination spot.

Cherries are widely grown all over the world. Cherries can be divided into sweet and sour cherries according to taste. Sweet cherries are suitable for fresh eating, sour cherries are used for baked pies, canned foods, jams, juices, etc.

Ripe cherries are beautiful and delicious. Not only humans love this fruit, but birds also like to eat it. Birds can pick cherries clean from a tree in two days if they are not carefully watched when they are ripe. For the cherry planted in the garden, if there are idle people in the home, you can implement artificial qudiao; If there is often no one at home, people often put a fishing net over the cherry tree before it is ripe to prevent birds from stealing it. In the cherry orchard, it is not feasible to use artificial methods to drive birds away. Fruit farmers generally also use anti bird nets, there are some places to use intelligent voice bird remover, the effect is also very good. With chemical drive fruit stealing birds practice is just starting in Our country, I believe in the near future, China's scientific research workers must be able to develop a non-toxic and harmless chemical agents to drive birds, which for the vast number of fruit farmers, is definitely a good news.

"Cherry delicious tree difficult to plant", this is a popular saying in the past, but also a true portrayal of history, cherry trees on the sun, soil, temperature requirements are relatively high. This is because before modern technology improved varieties, cherry trees are afraid of cold and heat, drought and flood, low temperature and high temperature are not easy to survive. In my hometown, there is a saying that "nine out of ten cherries die".

Cherry saplings are generally obtained by seedling, cuttage and layering. The germination rate of seedling method is usually less than 30 %. In addition, seedlings propagated by the seedling method bore fruit at a later age, and the quality variation between seedlings was large. Therefore, people generally do not use this method. Cuttings and layering have a high survival rate, and people generally use these two methods, but they require a lot of time, soil and management.

In China, people are also used to grafting cherries on other fruit trees. Another major reason cherry trees are difficult to plant is the rootstock. For thousands of years, the rootstocks used for cherry trees in China were mostly Chinese cherry and mountain cherry, but these rootstocks had poor adaptability to environment and time. Grafting time is also a key factor in the success of grafting. Grafting time is usually in June, if grafting too early, such as in May, the scion is young, the cortex is thin, the bud development is not full. Grafting too late, such as after the middle of September, branches have stopped growing, bud is not easy to peel. The middle of July is not suitable for grafting, because this time is the "rainy" season, after easy to flow glue, the interface is difficult to heal. Therefore, mastering the germination time of cherry is one of the keys to improve the survival rate. In addition, the grafting period must not be watered. In order to prevent soil drought, we can water once a week before grafting, and can't water again for half a month after grafting. Practice has proved that it is difficult to survive grafted seedlings exposed to hot, high temperature and direct light. So the grafting part must avoid direct light direction, in the backlight surface grafting is better.

In recent 20 years, Chinese researchers have selected and identified new cherry varieties by advanced methods such as distant hybridization and mutagenesis breeding. Today, "cherries are delicious but trees are difficult to plant" has become history forever.