There is a kind of fruit tree in the village called Zhaoping pear, and there are many other names: papaya, golden hook, Calligonum mongolicum ... In short, different places have different names.
Here, there are many such trees, which grow tall and lush. When the weather is hot, people always gather in the shade to chat and enjoy the cool. In autumn, the trees are full of fruits. Any tree can bear hundreds of pounds, and those particularly strong trees can even bear thousands of pounds!
But this kind of fruit is not delicious at first frost, but very sour, and it will become sweet and sour after frost.
When the fruit was ripe, the wind blew and it fell to the ground. But there are too many such trees, which can bear fruit and you can't eat them all, so it's not uncommon for local people to treat them as fruits.
However, Zhaoping pear is a natural selenium-enriched fruit, which contains a lot of nutrients such as glucose, organic acids and vitamins, and is very beneficial to human health.
Therefore, in addition to eating fresh fruit raw, villagers will also collect some soaked wine to drink, and usually put away dried fruits and soak them in water.
Every time I leave my hometown, I will take a big bag of chicken claw pears home to eat slowly. There is no such fruit in this small town where we live.