Chinese folk proverb: eat watermelon in the summer, no drugs to catch. And there's no better sound than the sound of the watermelon when it's in the summer. Hands on the knife, cut open all summer's crouch。
Interestingly, the power of the eaters is indeed strong and, by accident, they take an amazing “performance”。
According to the china daily news wesson news, on august 1, the chinese ate the largest amount of melon in the world!
According to the report, ministry of agriculture and rural affairs surveillance data show that sales have been rising since early market entry in late march, and there has been a consumption boom in the online fruit consumer market。
The mission's data show that the demand for watermelon by consumers has gradually increased and its sales have increased rapidly since its listing. During the week of 23 may to 29 may this year, the circulation of watermelons rose by nearly 200 per cent, with “black-american” watermelons being sold as a whole at the fastest rate ever, at over 50 per cent。
China is both a major consumer and a major producer of watermelons. According to the national statistical office and the fao database, in 2020 china accounted for nearly half of the world's watermelon cultivation, reaching 46. 04 per cent, and was the world's largest producer and consumer. According to the global statistical database, china's watermelon production exceeded 60 million tons between 2010 and 2020. Turkey, the second largest producer of watermelons, produces less than one tenth of china's production。
According to a study by the food and agriculture organization of the united nations (fao) in 2019, china, with 20 per cent of the world's population, produces 70 per cent of the world's watermelons and owns them, at an average of 113 pounds per person per year。
In fact, watermelon is not a “earth-grown” chinese fruit, but, at least before tang dynasty, the ancients did not have access to watermelon fruits. China has not yet found any wild species of watermelon, nor any archaeological relics of watermelon, and china's ancient monophonic melon, specifically the melon, not the melon. The watermelon originated in the african desert and was later transmitted through the silk road to the western part of ancient china and back in china, but because of china's large-scale geomass, its diversity and the country's environment suitable for its cultivation, it is the world's largest watermelon producer。
The script of the scripts of the ming generation has documented that watermelons are already located in the north and the south, and that, as the level of watermelon cultivation continues to rise to the time of the chong dynasty, it has become difficult to divide the watermelons and has created many well-known watermelon-producing areas throughout the country. The monopoly of zhang's book provides a more detailed account of watermelon selection, subculture, fertilization, field management, etc。
Today's chinese people have achieved “freedom to eat the melons” by the 80-year-olds who are still at the forefront of scientific research. In 1930, wu myung ju was born in wuhan, hubei. In 1953, she graduated from the horticulture department of the southwest college of agriculture, where she was an alumni with yuan ryuping, the “father of mixed rice in china”。
In the 1950s, u. S. Staff volunteered to travel to xinjiang, where they spent their entire lives choosing melons, and to develop over 40 excellent species of melons and melons. Working conditions in xinjiang are difficult, but it took wu myungju and his colleagues three years to travel to more than 300 production units in the country, to investigate a piece of the land, and finally to collect more than 100 pieces of information, which will form 44 varieties and become the basic material for later breeding. This is the way to breed, and it's been more than 50 years since sergeant wu went。
The watermelon not only tastes like ice cream and sweets, but also has nutrients and low heat that no ice cream or sweets possess, which is absolutely “summer tablets and fat houses”. When it comes to watermelons, people think of summer and picnics, and watermelons are well deserved. It tastes good and sweet, and it is a sweet thing that eats without guilt, easy to store. In addition to this, watermelons are free of swelling and decompression, beauty resistance and fatigue. However, because of the cold, watermelons are not allowed to eat much。
“100 pounds per person per year” has a reason. According to data from the national federation of urban agricultural and trade centres, the top 10 fruit varieties sold annually in china are watermelon, apples, grapes, citrus, bananas, monkeys, pears, peaches, pineapple and mangoes. The price of a watermelon is the most pro-people compared to the fruits that are popular with other people! Because of the widespread production of the country's watermelon-producing areas, we can enjoy the joy of digging watermelons with spoons in the summer and eating them without pain。
In foreign films, watermelons are rarely seen. Foreigners do not dislike watermelon, in large part because it is too expensive... Data show that in washington and new york, a kilo of united states watermelon is ready for export at a production price of about $6. 91 (approximately 46 yuan)。
Many internet users share their bad experiences of buying melons abroad: "swiss supermarket watermelons, half of them, $140 yuan." "the german watermelon is expensive, one watermelon is enough to buy four pounds of ribs." "new zealand watermelons cost me my chin."
Watermelons are also famous in japan and korea. A search of the korean portal “naver” revealed that a watermelon weighing about 5 kg was sold at a retail trademark price of 26,900 won (approximately 140 yuan). In japan, the average watermelons are sold at a price of yen 2000-3000, roughly rmb 150. And it's not always good for the exterior. In japan, the local specialty “square watermelon” comes on the market, which is 18 centimetres long on the side of the watermelon and is sold at around yen15,000 and close to 750 yuan. It is known that, although these square watermelons are expensive, they are extracted before they are fully mature, are not very sweet, are dim, and lack sufficient juice ..
Don't look at china, which is every year. We're actually very picky about watermelons. It's very common to knock before buying watermelon, listen to the sound, and see which one is sweeter。
But it's going to hit the watermelon outside the country. A photo of the italian supermarket posted on the internet a few years ago made watermelon fire. The supermarket had a card that said, "dear customers, please don't knock on the watermelon, they're not gonna answer!"
What? The watermelon won't let it knock? The chinese netizens who love to knock on the watermelon are dissatisfied and say, "it's not complete that i've never been knocked on." indeed, it is a common phenomenon not only for chinese, but for almost all the world's people. But we are definitely the only ones who can eat watermelons so creatively. Synthesis
