When farmers saw this kind of tree, they cut it into Japan, but it became a scarce product. Some people made a fortune by picking leaves.

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The Dragon Boat Festival is coming, and it's time to eat zongzi. In the matter of eating zongzi, there is not only a "sweet and salty war" between the south and the north, but also a big difference in the choice of zongye. In the south, people generally use Reed leaves and Ruo leaves to make zongzi, while in the western part of Henan Province, people prefer to use a kind of leaves to wrap zongzi. This kind of tree is not tall and the wood is crooked. In the past, farmers cut it down when they saw it and brought it home for firewood. Nowadays, with the passage of time, the value of the leaves of this kind of tree has doubled, and some people get rich by picking leaves.

This kind of tree is called mistletoe, its leaves are called mistletoe, mistletoe leaves grow very broad, have a special fragrance. The fragrance of mistletoe leaves is the strongest before and after the Dragon Boat Festival every year. After the Dragon Boat Festival, the mistletoe leaves grow old and the fragrance gradually fades away. So farmers will go to the mountains to pick mistletoe leaves before the Dragon Boat Festival every year to make rice dumplings. The local people call the dumplings wrapped in mistletoe leaves as "mistletoe buns". The stuffing is mainly made of millet and millet, which is full of fragrance after steaming, which is very local.

In the past, mistletoe grew unreasonably in the mountains, and farmers basically let it fend for themselves except for making zongzi and firewood, but some smart people found business opportunities in it. In Japan, mistletoe symbolizes "good luck, good health and longevity". On the Dragon Boat Festival, the Japanese eat a holiday food called "and raw fruit", which must be wrapped in mistletoe leaves in order to have the meaning of this blessing. However, the output of mistletoe in Japan is very small, and it is a scarce product with great demand. It has to be imported in large quantities from China every year in order to meet the demand.

There are a large area of high-quality mistletoe resources in the southwest mountain area of Henan Province in China. since the 1990s, people have exported a large number of mistletoe leaves to Japan every year. According to the requirements of the quality level of export, farmers in the mountains pick mistletoe leaves of the same size and size, and then after a series of processing and packaging, they are exported to Japan, South Korea and Europe. Some people who work quickly and conscientiously make a fortune by picking leaves and can increase their income by more than 4000 yuan a year.

Unexpectedly, the leaves, which were once cut down by farmers, have now become a "cash cow" for generating income. Readers, have you ever seen mistletoe?

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