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Yanchang Crispy Pear

en.yanan.gov.cn Updated: 2024-03-07 10:09

Yanchang crispypear, golden in color, has elegant and clean pericarp, thin skin, fine quality, juice, sweet and refreshingtaste, and containsrich nutrition, so it’s good forhealth. “Eating the raw pear, it can clear the heat of six fuorgans (numbles), and after cooked, it can nourish the yinof five organs”. It can moisten the lung and clear the heart, eliminate phlegm and cough, clear heat and detoxify, is one of the fruits that people like to eat. There are more than 40,000 mupear trees planted in the city, largely distributed inYanchang and Yichuan county, with the current annual yieldof about 10,000 tons. From Yichuan County to the Hukou Waterfall Scenic Area,along the way, pear orchards form aforest. Inspring,the fragrance of pear flowers wafts, and in autumn, it’s a fruitful scene. Tourists can enter the orchardto eat and buy some. In addition to the pears, Yanchang County has anothertreasure - Jinpear. According toShaanxi Fruit Tree Annals: The fruit is large, ovalshaped, longitudinal diameter of 9.2 cm, and transverse diameter 8.1 cm, average weight of 470 grams.The biggest one can weigh up to 665 grams. The fruit is golden after ripening, the pericarp is thick, fine and rough, with prominent brown dots on.A single Jinpearweighs about one jin(500g), hence it got the name.