The biggest thing about persimmons is that they're red, and they're red, and they're red, and they're red, and they're red, and they're red, and they're red, and they're red, and they're red, and they're red, and they're red, and they're red, and they're red, and they're red, and they're red. Our old home as a fruit, where all grow, many people like to plant in the yard, figure red hot good-looking, figure "shi" sound good, auspicious. For example, "shi (things) shi (things) as expected". Some places also persimmons as "woody food" and "hardcore crops", not only good-looking, delicious, and high medicinal value and economic value. Experts say, persimmons have a variety of active substances, such as carotene, flavonoids, fatty acids, phenols and a variety of amino acids, trace elements.
I grew up especially fond of eating this kind of persimmon. A kind of persimmon called "big cover persimmon" in my hometown is about five times larger than the small red persimmon in Xi'an, and the skin is slightly thicker than the small red persimmon, and some of them have the "flesh" like an orange, while others have a pocket of sweet juice.
The persimmons are the latest to come down, and while almost all the fruits have come down, the persimmons are still swaying in the increasingly cold and windy weather.
Children born in mountain villages have fruits to eat almost all year round, from the earliest apricots that blossom and bear fruit, to peaches, all kinds of pears, sour dates and jujubes, walnuts, chestnuts, and shanlihong (red fruits) that roam the mountains. I would go to school and eat them wherever I went. There seems to be a rule: eating on the spot is allowed, as long as you do not take to the home in a big bag on the line. When you go to school, pick a few kinds of fruit to make up for the lack of dry food at noon. Down to school, all the way to eat all the way, as well as the garden cucumbers, tomatoes, etc., to the home are almost full. At that time, we didn't have homework, sometimes we didn't even enter the yard door, we threw our school bags, which didn't have a few books, into the woodpile in the yard, and carried our baskets up the mountain to fetch firewood. Naturally, the mountain is also full of fruit, what is ripe first "reimbursement" what.
Daikai persimmons, too, were the last of the spoils of our little friends. We are like squirrels "preparing for war and famine". In order not to "run out of food" in the winter, we will be in the south mountain north ridge east ditch west puddle, respectively, in the stone skid (all from the mountain rolled down the different sizes of the stone) hide a pile of hard dagai persimmons, well marked.
The persimmons were "baptized" by the freezing cold, and the astringent flavor was removed and replaced by the sweetness of honey.
After school, the small group of friends who acted together, quietly agreed to go back to "enjoy" in the name of firewood, today Nanshan, tomorrow Beiling. At that time, "Dagai persimmon", crystal clear, gently wrapped off a small piece of skin, hands holding, mouth suck or sip, like drinking drinks, cold, sweet. Stone slips are generally in the wind, and ice days, eating such a cold "cold drink", is not an easy thing. You look at me, I look at you, a freezing shivering, and even the upper and lower teeth chattering, cheeks are frozen, smile can not smile. But that kind of sweetness, the little friends who have not refused, but also a secret, no one ever told the adults at home. After all, "dagai persimmon" is public, belongs to the violation of discipline. How many years later, we all still keep this cold, red "secret".
Sometimes the persimmons were so frozen that we couldn't eat them, so we took them home one by one and said we had picked them up under the tree. This, adults will not suspect, such as walnuts, chestnuts, various pears, etc., under the tree will be there. The old family has a habit, deliberately not all cleaned up, said for the next year's harvest "lead the way". Therefore, a variety of fruit trees will deliberately "left behind" some fruit. If no one picks them, they will be blown to the ground by the wind in winter.
Put the frozen persimmons in a big bowl and "pluck" them with cold spring water. Just for an hour or so? "On the surface of the persimmon, a thick layer of ice is formed, and when it is cracked open, the ice in the persimmon is completely "pulled" out. Of course, this "delicious" dish is basically to be shared with siblings.
On one occasion, I went to Xi'an on a business trip and found a lot of people selling very small persimmons on the side of the road, which they said were "fire persimmons", a famous specialty. I couldn't wait to buy a bag, couldn't wait to peel and taste on the spot, very delicious, especially sweet. In my infection and driven by the seven or eight comrades who went together, on the spot to an uncle of a large basket of all the reimbursement.
After working in the city, the childhood "wild" with persimmons can only be dreamed of. However, supermarkets often sell large persimmons, I see almost can not step, every time to buy back some. I put a large, red persimmons, respectively, put on the balcony, bedroom, especially the daughter's windowsill, two or six, meaning "smooth, red-hot, sweet". The most important thing to remember is that you can't go back to your home town without the help of the people you love, and you can't go back to your home town without the help of the people you love.
Like to eat persimmons, naturally interested in persimmons, persimmons-related knowledge to understand more: China's persimmon varieties of 1,058, including round persimmons, square persimmons, persimmons, long persimmons, gourd persimmons and persimmons and cattle heart persimmons, etc.. China's most famous are Shaanxi Jinyang, Sanyuan around the abundance of chicken heart yellow persimmons, Shaanxi Fuping pointed persimmons, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Gudang square persimmons around the area of North China, North China's large millboard persimmons, Hebei, Shandong around the Lotus persimmons as well as Heze's mirror persimmons.
Persimmon is rich in nutrients, known as the "fruit of the sacred". In every 100 grams of pulp contains 0.16mg of vitamin A, 16mg of vitamin C, 9mg of calcium, 20mg of phosphorus and 0.2mg of iron, of which carotene occupies the majority of vitamin A content. Persimmon is rich in pectin, which is a water-soluble dietary fiber with good laxative effect. More uniquely, domestic and international research has confirmed that persimmon vitamin C content is more than 10 times that of apples, consumption of more beneficial to the heart. Persimmon fruit polyphenols are excellent antioxidants, can effectively prevent atherosclerosis, prevention of cardiovascular and other diseases.
There are many more, the original like to eat persimmons, there are so many benefits.