Su Shi mentioned, "If you eat three hundred lychees a day, you will live a long life as a Lingnan native." However, his younger brother Su Zhe wrote: "The lychees in Sichuan stop at Jiazhou, and the aftermath reaches even my eyebrows." According to historical data According to records, lychees were produced in Jiazhou, Sichuan during the Jin Dynasty . During the Tang and Song dynasties, Jiazhou became an important producing area for lychees; During the Ming Dynasty , the lychees from Litchi Bay in Jiazhou were designated as tributes to the king of Shu. . Therefore, some lychee trees in Sichuan are also called "official lychees", but today, only 12 thousand-year-old "official lychee" lychee trees survive, and there are still 429 century-old lychee trees.
Now Jiazhou lychee is a specialty of Shizhong District, Leshan City, Sichuan Province, and is a national geographical indication of agricultural products. The lychee growing area in Jiazhou has a subtropical humid monsoon climate, with warm winters and hot summers, abundant rainfall, and high humidity. Jiazhou lychee fruits are generally medium-sized, heart-shaped, with flat shoulders, obvious cracks, protruding peaks, thin skin, bright red, waxy white flesh, thick texture, crisp and tender, transparent, sweet and slightly fragrant taste. Juice is medium.
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