The best time to plant Tsavo radish is the first half of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, now planted radish and big, and shiny, but also good-looking, and delicious, winter and spring harvest, winter eating radish summer eating ginger said.

Shawo radish, also known as Tianjin Weiqing radish, commonly known as "Sai Duck Pear", is the Tianjin agricultural brand-name products. Because of its origin in Tianjin Xiqing District, Xinkou Town, small Shawo, Bi Jia Village and other neighboring villages and named, has more than 600 years of planting history. The cultivation of green radish in Tianjin was recorded in the Yuan Dynasty and has a history of more than 600 years. "Shawo's radish - race duck pear", "Shawo's radish - crunchy" is a common saying of Tianjin people. Tsavo green radish is the representative of Tianjin radish, the most popular; mainly green as jade, the ground that is crushed, eaten raw crisp, sweet and spicy and refreshing, eat the stomach and digestion, clearing away heat and detoxification, and open the chest with gas. In the late Qing Dynasty, every fall and winter, in the streets and alleys, inns, baths, theaters, tea houses everywhere there are selling green radishes. People regard green radish as a delicacy. Eat a few petals of green carrots after meals and tea slightly over the hiccups, but feel the five organs through the gas, the stomach happy and cool, all the body comfortable. As the saying goes: "winter eat carrots and summer eat ginger, year-round health," and "radish on the hot tea, gas doctor crawling in the street," said the laugh, are the way of health. Tsavo green radish why so delicious? The main reason is that the soil there is fertile, suitable for the growth of green radish. Here in the folklore circulated a legend: according to legend, during the Ming Jiajing years, the emperor Zhu Houjian has a favorite concubine, like to eat southern lychee. Because of the inconvenience of transportation is difficult to keep fresh, the chancellor Yan Song offered a plan to dig out the whole lychee tree shipment to Tianjin, and the shore to take the lychee Pegasus sent to the palace, and the lychee tree's residual soil is every poured in the small Shawo Village Canal

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