This kind of wild fruit is a hundred catties 60 years ago, it is all over the mountain, now it is 50 catties into rare goods

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There are many mountains in our country, and all kinds of mountain treasures are not lacking in the mountains. There are different kinds of delicacies all year round, including mushrooms, herbs, and wild fruits. In the Xiaoxing'an Mountains in northeast China, there was a wild fruit that was once so numerous that 60 years ago, the mountains were full of this kind of wild fruit. Take a sack to pick it up in the mountain and pick it up with hundreds of jin. Later, with the development of Xiaoxinganling, a large number of trees were cut down, resulting in fewer and fewer wild fruits. In addition, this kind of wild fruit can only be picked by hand, and the cost is relatively high. Now it has become a rare and expensive product.

This kind of wild fruit is pine cones, and the fruit it bears is pine nuts. Not all pine cones can produce pine nuts. Generally speaking, most of the common pine nuts on the market are exotic Brazilian pine nuts, as well as pine nuts of Masson pine, sea pine and Korean pine, which are mainly distributed in Northeast China and Yunnan. Most of the pine cones that people often see in parks or other places are the fruits of Pinus elliottii or Pinus tabulaeformis. Their seeds are winged and blown away by the wind when they split, so the pine cones picked up are empty.

This kind of pine trees that do not produce pine nuts are often used for urban greening, because the growth rate is fast, and the production rate of pine nuts is very slow, so it is not common in the city.

Take Korean pine (wild Korean pine is a protected plant and it is not recommended to pick its cones). Korean pine in the wild will not bear fruit until it takes 50 years to grow. And the fruit ripening process is also very long, it will take 2 years to mature. And pine cones are not easy to come by. In addition to competing for resources with squirrels and birds in the forest, the process of picking pine cones is both hard and dangerous.

Korean pine grows in the mountains, and it takes dozens of miles to walk from the foot of the mountain to the mountain. In order to hit more pine cones, people will choose to set up a simple tent in the mountains for the night. Pine cones are ripe fruits in autumn, and autumn in the northeast is already very cold, not to mention how cold it is to spend the night in the mountains.

There is a folk saying that to see whether a person often beats pine cones, you only need to observe whether he often looks up. Because pine cones grow on trees more than 20 meters high, if you want to hit pine cones, you have to look up, and then put on the local tree climbing tool "foot tie" to climb up, and then use special tools to beat down the pine nuts. Generally speaking, it takes at least two people to cooperate. One person climbs a tree to fight, and the other person picks it up under the tree. It is dangerous and hard for people who are windy in the mountains and tremble to climb trees. Only those who are bold and careful can do this work.

The collected pine cones were sent to the foot of the mountain for threshing, and the fresh pine nuts came out! After deep processing such as drying, drying and stir-frying, it becomes a pine nut sold on the market. The price of a kilogram of pine nuts is 100 yuan, and the price per jin is about 50 yuan. It is a rare commodity.

Every pine nut condenses the sweat and hard work of the labourers, which is really hard to come by. Readers, have you ever hit pine cones?

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