At the beginning of May, chestnuts began to sprout as the weather got warmer. From late May to early June, chestnuts began to blossom; During September 9- 10/0, chestnuts slowly opened their mouths, and the chestnuts that had been waiting for a year were finally ripe.

When the chestnuts are ripe, some naturally fall, and some need to stand under the chestnut tree and beat the branches with bamboo poles before the chestnuts fall. Sometimes it will fall with the prickly shell outside, and it is common to be pricked, but the harvested fruit is worth watching.

General situation of chestnut

Chestnut, also known as Castanea mollissima, Castanea mollissima, is a nut plant of Castanea in Fagaceae. Chestnut is a arbor, and there are more than 100 species of chestnut found. The bark is dark gray, irregularly deep and longitudinally split. Branches are gray-brown, with longitudinal grooves, many yellow-gray round lenticels on the epidermis, and young branches are gray-brown fluff.

Chestnut, also known as "ginseng fruit" abroad, can be used not only as a snack food, but also as a substitute for food, and is also called "woody food" with jujube. China is also the largest chestnut producer in the world, with a cultivation history of more than 3,000 years, with an annual output of 6,543,800 tons, accounting for 654.38+0/3 of the world's total output. Shandong, Henan, Hubei, Hebei, Anhui, Zhejiang and Guangxi are famous chestnut producing areas in China.