When Apple was introduced to China

Apples were introduced to China in the 19th century.

Apples are native to central and southeastern Europe, Central and Western Asia, and Xinjiang, China. In Europe in 300 BC, M.P. Cato had recorded apple varieties. Later, the Romans began to cultivate and propagate by grafting.

In the 18th century, J.B. Montessori and T.A had used natural hybridization to breed seedlings and gradually promoted cultivation. After the discovery of the New World in America, European immigrants introduced apples to the Americas and cultivated many new varieties in the Americas. During the Meiji Restoration era, Japan introduced apples from Europe and the United States and then spread them to Asia. Since then, Oceania and Africa have also introduced apples.

In the past hundred years, apple cultivation has been established in five continents of the world. The earliest Europeans had eaten apples and improved and bred them. Some varieties appeared more than 2,000 years ago. Before colonizing the Americas, there were hundreds of known varieties in Europe.

With the wave of immigrants in North America, seedling apple varieties also spread everywhere and became roving emissaries of local legends. They played a major role in the spread of apples, the most prominent of which was John Chap. Mann, who was nicknamed "Apple Guy," grew apples extensively in Ohio and Indiana. Indians and trappers may have also spread the apple.

Introduction to the distribution range of apples:

China's Liaoning, Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong, and Shaanxi (currently, Shaanxi is the apple province with the largest apple planting area and the highest output in China. Apple cultivation With an area of ??11 million acres, Shaanxi's concentrated apple juice production and export volume account for one-quarter of China's and one-seventh of the world's. Shaanxi's concentrated apple juice accounts for one-third of the world's total output, and every third cup of apples in the world. One cup of juice comes from Shaanxi), Gansu, Sichuan, Yunnan, and Tibet.

Suitable for growing on hillside terraces, plain wilderness and loess hills, at an altitude of 50-2500 meters. It is native to Europe and central Asia and has a long history of cultivation. It is grown in temperate regions around the world.

Original from eastern Turkey, the main varieties are from the genus Begonia (there are hundreds of varieties), one of which is the short-branched type - a dwarf compound variety bred to improve fertility. China, the United States, and France are the leading apple producing countries (tons), while the leaders in yield (tons/hectare) are France, Italy, the United States, and Turkey.