Dried umeboshi (umeboshi), short for dried plums, is also known as umeboshi (話梅), and is made from umeboshi (umeboshi). Especially known as "China's hometown of plums" Zhaoan County, since ancient times, there is a history of planting plums, and planting a wide range of large yields, excellent quality known. With Zhaoan green plum processed green plum dry, has the appearance of bright color, skin Q is not easy to break, taste delicious and other advantages and famous at home and abroad. Because of the Zhaoan production of green plum dry plum good quality, production, processing convenience and other characteristics, every year in March, April began to gather the four sides of the green plum buyers scramble to purchase. These plums are more processed into dried plums, exported to Japan, Southeast Asia, Europe and the United States.
Dried plums have antibacterial, antiseptic, detoxification, adjusting the role of the stomach and intestines, in addition to eliminating fatigue, relief of motion sickness, dried plum tea can also alleviate the symptoms of drunkenness discomfort.
It is said that the origin of the plum tree is the middle reaches of the Yangtze River in China, the mountainous area of Hubei Province. About 1,500 years ago, the Tang dynasty envoys (630-894) brought "umeboshi" back to Japan from China. At that time, umeboshi was a very valuable medicine for relieving pain and fever. In the middle of the Heian Period (794-1192), dried plums were used to cure Emperor Murakami.