The fruit of the ＂cultural relics＂ in the Forbidden City in Beijing and Pak Lei may not be comparable to that in the village.

　　The Forbidden City was founded in 1406 and completed in 1420. Suddenly, the 600th birthday is coming.

　　In the past 600 years, the stars have changed and the sea has changed. Dung was Wan Huhou. However, the vegetation in the Forbidden City is lush and endless. They are undoubtedly living witnesses of the Forbidden City in 600 years.

　　Earlier, when tourists visited the Forbidden City, they mostly looked around the palace buildings. In recent years, the exhibitions in the Forbidden City have become more and more abundant, and cultural relics have "come alive".

　　With more tourists, the nature tour will be detailed and personalized. I remember one spring day, when I was engaged in voluntary explanation service in the Treasure Hall of the Forbidden City, a tourist suddenly asked me if the pears in Chenggan Palace had bloomed.

　　I’d love to hear such an inquiry. Not only is he willing to answer, but when he answers, the flowers in his heart seem to bloom, and he can’t wait to lead the tourists to Chenggan Palace at once.

　　Bringing cultural relics to life is of course a metaphor. But the plants in the Forbidden City are really living "cultural relics".

　　Where is Jing Pak Lei in the Forbidden City?

　　In the open area of the Forbidden City, you can see pear blossoms in two places.

　　There are two pear trees in front of Shou Kang Palace and one in front of Chenggan Palace. The pear blossoms in Shoukang Palace are three or four days earlier than those in Chenggan Palace, and they have completely bloomed at the end of March, while those in Chenggan Palace can almost last until the Qingming Festival.

　　Shou Kang Palace, located on the West Road outside the Forbidden City, was the place where the Empress Dowager Tai and the Empress Dowager lived in the Qing Dynasty. Empress Dowager Xianxian of Qianlong Dynasty, Empress Taifei of Jiaqing Dynasty and Empress Kangci of Xianfeng Dynasty all lived here.

　　Chenggan Palace is located in Dongliugong, which was the residence of imperial concubine in Ming Dynasty and the residence of empresses in Qing Dynasty. Tian Guifei, the favorite of Emperor Chongzhen in Ming Dynasty, and Dong E Fei, the favorite of Emperor Shunzhi in Qing Dynasty, once lived here.

　　Many years ago, Brother Dunhuang, the philosopher of Mr. Wang Shixiang, mysteriously said to me, Do you know that there is a Beijing Pak Lei in the palace?

　　My eyes lit up, and I said, where is it? Wang Dunhuang said with a sly look, I won’t tell you.

　　Both of them have the same problem. I like to say half a sentence about everything. Once Wang Shixiang told me that a book would be published soon. What book did I ask? The old man said, keep it a secret!

　　The reason why Wang Dunhuang told me that there are Beijing and Pak Lei in the palace is because I have done some research on Beijing and Pak Lei.

　　Brother Dunhuang recognized my "research achievements" in Beijing and Pak Lei.

　　I once traveled all over the open area of the Forbidden City, but I didn’t find Beijing and Pak Lei. Finally, when Shoukang Palace opened, I saw two old pear trees there, so I eagerly looked forward to it from spring to autumn. I want to see where Beijing and Pak Lei in the Forbidden City are.

　　Until one day, I saw the pear trees in Shoukang Palace bearing fruit, and I jumped with excitement. This is Beijing and Pak Lei in the Forbidden City.

　　This is the only fruit with the prefix "Jing"

　　There is a reason why Beijing and Pak Lei are planted in the Forbidden City.

　　Jing Pak Lei is the only fruit with the prefix "Jing" among all fruits, and the origin of Jing Pak Lei is in Beijing.

　　The birthplace of Beijing Pak Lei is in a low-lying and watery place in Qinglonggou, Dongshan Village, Mentougou, Beijing. Around the middle of Qing Dynasty, a pear tree with natural variation appeared here. Because of its excellent quality, it was widely planted and became a palace tribute. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, the planting area of Pak Lei in Beijing had expanded, not only to Dongshan and Mengwu villages, but also to Miaofeng Mountain, Junzhuang and Tanzhe Temple.

　　Jing Pak Lei, also known as Beijing Pak Lei, is also called Xiaobaili because of its small size. There are flat tops and spires in the fruit shape, and fine skins and coarse skins in the peel. But the best quality is the fine-skinned flat-topped variety, commonly known as "water chestnut flat". The longitudinal diameter of Jing Pak Lei is about 4.6 to 5.5 cm, the transverse diameter is 5.4 to 6.9 cm, and the weight of a single fruit is 75 to 117 grams. Because of the standard fruit shape, you can usually stack Jing Pak Lei one by one without falling down. Of course, the key lies in the internal quality. Its skin is so thin that the friction between pears will produce brown scratches. After the ripening of Beijing and Pak Lei, the fragrance is fragrant. When you put a few Beijing and Pak Lei indoors, it is often full of fragrance and refreshing. The flesh is delicate and the juice is overflowing. Because there are very few stone cells and the content of soluble solids is high, it melts in the mouth.

　　What is in the palace is not necessarily comparable to what is in the village.

　　From the diameter analysis of two trees in Shoukang Palace, Pak Lei, Beijing, these two trees are not particularly old, and they were first planted in the late Qing Dynasty. At that time, Pak Lei, Beijing, as a tribute of the imperial court, won the favor of the emperor and even the empresses, which is also a natural thing, so it is not difficult to introduce two pear trees from Mentougou.

　　You should not only enjoy flowers, but also eat pears, so you have to plant two, because although Beijing and Pak Lei are hermaphroditic, they need cross-pollination.

　　Inside the palace is inside the palace after all. The excellent quality of Jing Pak Lei in Dongshan Village is due to its unique geographical environment — — Surrounded by mountains on three sides and facing the sun on one side, the temperature difference between day and night in summer is as high as 20 degrees Celsius, which is rich in groundwater resources. In addition, if Beijing and Pak Lei want to be delicious, they need to pollinate with different kinds of pears. For example, the best pollination partner of Beijing and Pak Lei is Xiaoxiang pear or rotten pear, which was the secret of pear style in the past.

　　"Oranges born in Huainan are oranges." The same is true. Although I have never eaten this tree in Pak Lei, the quality of pears must be far worse than that in Dongshan Village.

　　However, since we can eat the tribute to Beijing and Pak Lei in the palace, we naturally won’t point to what good fruit these two trees can bear.

　　To put it bluntly, maybe the owner here is just idle, so he asked for the whole two Beijing white pear trees. All the people who live here are the Empress Dowager. When they are old, their mouths will definitely fail, so they can only eat the soft Beijing and Pak Lei.

　　The "old lady" looks at flowers in spring and tastes them in autumn. Not bad either.