Nanguo pear belongs to Qiuzi pear, so its picking time is at the beginning of September every year. At this time, the fruit generally has a longitudinal diameter of 4.7 ~ 5.2 cm and a transverse diameter of 5.5 ~ 5.8 cm. The average fruit weight is about 50 ~ 75g, and the maximum fruit weight can reach170g. Fresh-picked fruits need to be stored for one to two weeks before their color, taste and smell can be fully revealed. At this time, it is on the eve of Mid-Autumn Festival, one of the three lunar festivals in China, and the market prospect is broad.
Nanguo pear has strict requirements on climate, soil, light, latitude and many other growth conditions, and Datun Town, Haicheng City, which is the production base of high-quality Nanguo pear established by the Ministry of Agriculture, is the most suitable for its growth conditions in the extensive land of Liaodong Peninsula.
Datun Town, with superior geographical position, is adjacent to Haicheng (about 22km) in the south and Anshan (about15km) in the north. With a total area of 90.6 square kilometers, Changda Railway, Harbin-Dalian Highway and Tangxi Highway pass through the territory, and the traffic is very convenient.
The town is the famous hometown of Nanguo pear, with nearly one million Nanguo pear trees, covering an area of more than 40,000 mu, with an annual output of more than 20 million kilograms. About 2,000 farmers in the town are engaged in Nanguo pear production. The "Yingbuluo" brand Nanguo pear produced here is well-known. It won the silver prize for the exhibition of famous products in the Beijing Asian Games in 1994 and the gold prize in the Liaoning Provincial Quality Fruit Appraisal and Evaluation Conference in 1996. 1998 Datun Town was designated as a high-quality Nanguo pear production base by the Ministry of Agriculture.
Legend 1:
In ancient times, there lived a father and a daughter in a mountain village in the east of Haicheng. My father Nan Laohan herded sheep and collected herbs, and my daughter Nanguo raised silkworms and weaved silk. Although life was poor, it was also enjoyable.
One morning, the girl from Nanguo walked out of the house and sang all the way to the silkworm farm. She was so happy to see all the silkworms on the oak leaves eating chubby. Suddenly, a harsh birdsong came from not far away. The girl from Nanguo searched for the sound and saw an injured baby eagle struggling with a serpent. Seeing that the baby eagle was exhausted, the serpent gained the upper hand. Girl Nanguo conveniently broke off a branch and threw herself at the poisonous snake. The poisonous snake was killed and the baby eagle was saved, but girl Nanguo was bitten by the poisonous snake in the struggle and slowly closed her beautiful eyes.
In the evening, Nanlaohan came back from herding sheep and didn't see his daughter. He was so anxious that he found the silkworm farm and picked up his dead daughter, which was very painful. With the help of the villagers, Nan Laohan buried his daughter, took the baby eagle home, treated it carefully, and soon healed it. On this day, the old man picked up the baby eagle and said to it, "Your wound is healed, and no matter what kind of poisonous snake is your opponent in the future." The little eagle seemed to understand the words of the old man in the south, nodded to the old man in the south, and spread its wings and flew into the distance with a long sound.
The following spring, people saw an eagle hovering over the tomb of Nanguo girl for nine days in kuya. After flying away on the tenth day, a pear tree grew beside the grave. Nan Laohan takes this pear tree as his daughter and takes good care of it. The small pear tree grew up day by day, flourishing, and in autumn, it was full of fruits. Nan Laohan distributed the picked pears to the villagers, and some put them in baskets and hung them on the beams. Some put pears in hollowed-out dried gourd heads. A few days later, there was a strong fragrance floating from every household in the village. Everyone searched and found that it was the fragrance from pears in baskets and gourd heads. Everyone had never seen such beautiful, delicious and fragrant fruits, and they were refreshing after eating pears. Some patients recovered quickly after eating pears. In order to commemorate Nanguo girl, the villagers called the pear "Nanguo pear", and this small mountain village has since been called "Eagle does not fall" village.
The news that Nanguo pear is delicious and can keep fit and get sick soon reached the ears of the magistrate. He sent someone to take Nanguo pear tree back, plant it in his own garden, and also arrested Nan Laohan to help Nanguo pear tree. In autumn, the magistrate saw the fruit of the tree, and thought that if Nanguo pear was given to the emperor, the emperor would be successful in my official career as soon as he was happy. He ordered Nan Laohan to pick pears, put them in baskets and prepare to go to Beijing to present them to the emperor. A few days passed, and the pear didn't smell at all. The magistrate picked up a pear and took a bite, which was sour and hard. In a rage, he sent someone to cut down the pear tree and let Nan Lao man go. Nan Laohan returned home with several Nanguo pears hidden in his arms, planted pear seeds on the hillside around Nanguo girl's grave, and soon the pear seeds sprouted and grew into small pear trees. In the autumn of the third year, the trees were covered with pears, and the pears were as beautiful, delicious and fragrant as before, so "Nanguo Pear" became a specialty of Haicheng.
Legend 2:
A special pear in Anshan area is called Nanguo pear. After eating this kind of pear, the pear juice is really sweet and fragrant, and it is more delicious. Some foreigners are full of praise after eating this pear, saying that it is a rare good pear in the world; Some people also take pear seeds back, hoping to cultivate this kind of pear in their country. It can be seen how popular Nanguo pear is. This kind of pear grows in Anshan, Northeast China. Why is it also called Nanguo pear? This has to start with the origin of this pear.
Legend has it that more than 1000 years ago, geese flying from the south often landed in the old Longtan area in Qian Shan. One spring, a purple-brown goose, like a swan, flew from the south, hovering among the 999 peaks in Qian Shan, and kept spinning. It spit out a pear seed brought back from the south, and it landed on the sunny slope of the southwest ditch. As soon as the pear seed fell to the ground, it went into the soil, immediately sprouted and branched, and watched it grow into a wild pear tree with thorns. It happened that all this was seen by an old man who picked wild fruits. He feels very novel, so he often visits this wild pear tree here. Soon the tree blossomed and bore fruit. This pear, which is blue at first, is not big, a little astringent and not delicious. After harvesting, the old man grafted it with a tree of Zizania latifolia. When the fruit came out again, the size of the pear was bigger than before, and the color of the pear changed from cyan to golden, and it was a little orange. Take a bite, ha, it was delicious! Because people know from the old road that this is a pear planted by the seeds brought by the wild goose from the south, they named this pear nanguo pear. In ancient times, the south was also called the south. Later, this nanguo pear was called white, and people called it Nanguo pear. Since then, more and more pear trees have been transplanted, and now Nanguo pear trees have spread all over the mountainous and semi-mountainous areas in Anshan area.
Every year, when the pear blossoms are in full bloom, the purple-brown geese from the south fly around the Nanguo pear trees, spinning as if boasting to people, thanks to which there are so many such good Nanguo pear trees.