The most famous is Geshi Town, Ningyang County, Tai 'an City, Shandong Province, which is known as the hometown of jujube in China. Ningyang jujube is famous all over the world, and it is very sweet and civilized because of its large jujube size. In the Southern Song Dynasty, Wen Tianxiang wrote a poem praising Ningyang that "the mulberry jujube family is close, and the Artemisia scoparia is a long way away".
Jujube has a history of more than 3,000 years in Geshi Town, Ningyang County. The main producing areas are Dongyun Village and Heishi Village! In 2000, it was named "China Famous and Excellent Economic Forest-Hometown of Jujube" by the National Economic Forest Association.
The jujube resources in Geshi Town are very rich. The existing jujube forest covers an area of100000 mu, and the number of mature trees reaches1000000, with an annual output of 30 million kilograms of jujube. It is concentrated in the Wanqing jujube forest in Shentong Mountain, where the spring flowers are in autumn and the fragrance is floating in Wan Li, forming a beautiful landscape. As early as 1986, it was listed as "jujube development and production base" by the State Forestry Department. In July 1998, it was approved as a "provincial forest park" by Shandong Provincial Forestry Department.
In Shentong Mountain, tens of thousands of acres of pear orchards are wrapped in silver in the spring, and butterflies and bees compete in the jujube forest. Autumn is fruitful and jujube pears are sweet. It can be described as "the ancient post road in the corner of the Yellow River south, fertile soil outside the mountains, a thousand years, prodigies, wise and strong Qilu."
Geshi jujube is famous for its huge fruit, thick flesh, rich nutrition and unique flavor. 198
In two years, it was evaluated as a national health jujube by the Ministry of Health. In September 1996, it won the title of "Consumer Trusted Product" at the Shanghai International Agricultural Products Expo in China. In 2000, he won the gold medal in the first national jujube Expo.
Award; In 200 1 year, it won the title of "Quality Product of China International Agricultural Expo", which has extensive medical value.