In autumn, when the dates are almost ripe, children throw carrots at them, no matter whose jujube trees they are. The villagers think that "anyone who sees ripe dates will take a bite", so no one cares.
There is a jujube tree in the neighbor's third grandmother's house. The tree grows in her house and the head grows in ours. Every year when the dates fall, Third Grandma will give us some. Red dates are crisp and sweet, suitable for raw food. The two jujube trees in our family are walnut characters, which are a little rough to eat raw and suitable for drying dates. Every year during the Spring Festival, we cook jujube paste, mix soybeans and steam jujube buns. In winter, in order to eat fresh dates, the newly picked dates are put into white wine to make drunken dates. They look fresh until the New Year, but the smell of wine is very strong, which is no longer the taste of fresh dates.
Jujube is a well-known tonic with high nutritional value, especially vitamin C and vitamin P. I got bad blood acidosis (vitamin C deficiency) in the second day of junior high school, and the doctor told me to eat more jujube. Jujube nectar is not only delicious in jujube flavor, but also rich in fragrance and sweet and greasy in taste. It is one of the most productive and respected honeys.
"July 15th, bordeaux, August 15th, jujube falls." . It's time to date around the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month. When planting dates, put a sheet under the tree, shake the tree hard first, and the ripe dates will fall. What doesn't fall is not ripe, and it can be shaken in a few days. If you want to eat it all at once, you can knock down the dates you can't shake with a bamboo pole. Raw dates can be eaten steamed.
There are seven or eight varieties of jujube trees in my hometown. I can only name three varieties, namely, the two mentioned above and "Mama Jujube", a long jujube shaped like a horse breast grape.
The branches of jujube trees are green, much like compound leaves. In autumn, the whole fruit leaves fall off together, which is the characteristic of jujube trees. Jujube flowers are small, light green, with a disk with honey juice on it. When the jujube tree blooms, it attracts swarms of bees.
The branches of jujube trees have thorns. When we were young, jujube branches had a special purpose, and they were used to tie flower trees on the fifteenth day of the first month every year. First, cut the jujube seedlings with a sickle for later use, make flowers with colored paper and small grates (sorghum stalks), and insert them on the needles (thorns) of jujube seedlings, and the flower trees will become colorful, similar to Christmas trees. After the flower tree is finished, make it look like an old lady with colored paper, cloth and file and hang it on the flower tree. Old lady? A basket with some real cotton in it. This is a cotton picker. The tied flower tree is inserted at the edge of the cesspit. On the 16th day of the first month, two real old ladies took the two ends of two sorghum stalks and operated the "old lady" who had hung on the flower tree to pick cotton (I forgot how to do it) to predict whether the cotton harvest in that year was good or not. This custom has long since ceased to exist.
My jujube tree is also a place where chickens sleep at night. When I was a child, the chickens raised at home could fly to the wall and then to the branches of jujube trees. At that time, weasels occasionally haunted the house, so chickens could only sleep on high branches.
Zizyphus jujuba Belonging to the genus Ziziphus. It is native to China and cultivated in Asia, Europe and America. Jujube is one of the earliest domesticated and cultivated fruit trees in China, along with peach trees and apricot trees.