Cherry belongs to the deciduous tree fruit tree of Rosaceae, so friends should not confuse cherry with cherry blossom. Cherry is bright red when ripe, exquisitely carved, delicious, nutritious and of high medical and health care value, and is also known as "Han Tao".

The cherries cultivated as fruit trees in China include China cherry, sweet cherry, sour cherry and hairy cherry. Cherry ripens early and has the reputation of the first fruit in early spring, which is called "the first branch of hundred fruits". It is said that Oriole is particularly fond of pecking at this kind of fruit, hence the name "Yingtao".

China's cherry production is 35 million kg, and the average per capita is only 29g, which is equivalent to three big cherries or seven China cherries15-17. It can be seen that cherry has a broad market prospect. The varieties of sweet cherry cultivated in China are mainly European and American varieties, which perform well in the northern part of China. Because the European sweet cherry generally needs 900~ 1400 hours at a low temperature below 7.2°c to complete its winter dormancy, it limits the large-scale cultivation in the southern part of China. Therefore, China cherry is still the main cultivated variety in the northern provinces of China. At the same time, there are few excellent varieties of China cherry, and many shortcomings such as small fruit, sour taste, fruit cracking before harvest, fruit dropping and so on are common in cultivated varieties. However, the breeding of black pearl, an excellent cherry variety in China, successfully made up for these shortcomings.

There are two large varieties of wild cherries in Asia and Europe, which have nothing to do with each other. Later, other cherries were cultivated. It is mainly distributed in the northern hemisphere in the world and mainly produced in Anhui, Liaoning, Hebei, Shaanxi, Gansu, Shandong, Henan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Sichuan in China. Born in sunny places on mountain slopes or beside ditches, it is often cultivated, with an altitude of 300~600 meters. Xixiang County, Shaanxi Province has the largest cherry base in the northwest-Cherry Valley, and the Cherry Festival is held in late April every year. This fruit is successfully produced in Zhenning Buyi and Miao Autonomous County, Anshun City, Guizhou Province, China.