Why do people have such feelings for Apple? I think it's probably because apples are really sweet and delicious, very popular and can be seen everywhere. Apple trees are never really noble, but poor. Generally speaking, they are not tall and will never refuse people who are thousands of miles away, but they are within reach and look gentle and amiable. At least not as noble as litchi. When riding a princess in the world of mortals and laughing, no one knew it was litchi.
Yes, apples are one of the popular fruits. The fruit yield in the world is the highest, the first is bananas, and the second is apples. /kloc-Henry Ward Beecher, a famous American priest in the 0/9th century, once said that apple is the fruit of the most democracy: "Whether it is neglected, abused or abandoned, it can manage itself well and achieve fruitful results."
Beecher is right, the vitality of apple trees is extremely tenacious, and the cold tolerance exceeds any fruit, probably the fruit growing at the highest latitude. When Beidahuang jumped the queue, there were no other fruit trees there, only apple trees could be planted. It is a kind of fruity light. The fruit is small, a little sour, but crisp. Not long after the apple planted the tree, winter came. Winter in the Great Northern Wilderness comes early and goes late, and the "big smoke bubble" is very cold when it blows. Therefore, apples are very sad in winter. Local villagers used to store apples in vegetable pits. Potatoes were frozen into ice, and apples were black and rotten with cold. In my first year, I was full of curiosity and competitiveness. Autumn has come, the apple trees have borne fruit, and the cabbage in the vegetable field has begun to hold the heart. We put apples in cabbage, and when the leaves of cabbage grow layer by layer, we wrap the apples tightly in cabbage. When collecting cabbage, we put the cabbage wrapped with apples into the vegetable cellar. In New Year and Spring Festival, we open the cabbage and roll out the red apples. It's not frozen at all, and it's still crisp with a bite. If we have any inventions in the Great Northern Wilderness, it should be counted as one. Of course, it is also the vitality of Apple itself, which is "anti-manufacturing" in the words of the Great Northern Wilderness. It can be said that they are the only dependent fruits in the winter of the Great Northern Wilderness. In New Year and Spring Festival, they give us joy and remind us of our distant hometown.
According to statistics, the annual output of apples in the world is tens of millions of tons, with the highest output in the United States, accounting for nearly 1/4 of the world. Americans have a soft spot for apples. When their land was just developed, it was Apple that helped them transform the wasteland into their homes. Johnny Apple, a famous American folk hero, spent 40 years sowing the seeds of apple trees in the wilderness of Ohio.
The apple that the United States exports the most to the world is the snake fruit that we are quite familiar with now. It is said that this is a new variety cultivated in Iowa that year. In 1893, it won the first prize in a competition in Louisiana, Missouri, and was named snake fruit, which means "delicious" in English because it was "too sweet and directionless" at that time. Now snake fruit is stinking in our country. I remember that in the early 1990s, I first saw this kind of snake fruit imported from the United States in the duty-free shop in front of Zhuhai Customs. I bought some specially to take home, but the whole family didn't want to eat them. Not as sweet as I thought. The key is peace. Some are like golden red apples that we have already eliminated.
I guess 1893' s snake fruit probably won't be like this. More than a hundred years have passed, and even the best tea will not taste the same now. For thousands of years, apples and humans have shared the same fate. Man has changed his fate and changed his taste. Apple trees are more and more like dogs domesticated by humans, and they can only do what they are told. Apple's personalization, scale and commercialization make its parents more and more concentrated on a few varieties, and degradation is inevitable. Their original wildness gradually lost a lot, and their creativity became worse and worse.
In the chapter "Apples" of the book "The Desire of Plants", Michael Pollan, an American biologist, specifically listed the fact that nikolai vavilov, a former Soviet biologist and president of Lenin Academy of Agricultural Sciences, discovered the wild apple forest in Almaty, Kazakhstan as early as 1922. In order to study the genetic diversity of apples, he asked to protect this rare wild apple forest in the world, but he was a victim of the great criticism of genetics in Stalin's era. For Apple, Johnny became a hero, but a sinner.
Pollan went on to say, 1989, Emma Dee Jay Gorif, an 80-year-old biologist and vavilov student, invited a group of scientists to Almaty to see the wild apple grove, hoping that they could help him save it, "because a real estate development boom is spreading from Almaty to the surrounding hilly areas".
How can I eat that kind of "too sweet to have a direction" apple? This is how we destroy apples that have depended on us for thousands of years, and not just apples. The history of Apple is our own history.
In Shihezi City, Xinjiang, I saw all the street trees planted all over the street were apple trees. I wonder if there are any other cities in the world that use apple trees as street trees. I haven't seen them anyway. This is really a beautiful scenery. It's close to Almaty, which reminds me of apples in Almaty. Is this link comparison or comfort? Perhaps Apple itself is a modern fable.