When was Apple first introduced to China?

The earliest introduction time to China:1After European apples were naturalized in China in the middle of the 9th century, European apples first settled in Luochuan County, Yan 'an City, Shaanxi Province.

Apples are native to central and southeastern Europe, Central Asia and even Xinjiang in China. In Europe, as early as 300 BC, M.P. Cato had recorded the varieties of apples. Later, the Romans began to cultivate, graft and reproduce. /kloc-in the 0/8th century, J.B. Montessori and T.A. used natural hybridization to select seedlings and gradually popularized cultivation.

When the New World of America was discovered, European immigrants introduced apples to America, and many new varieties were cultivated in America. During the Meiji Restoration, Japan introduced apples from Europe and America to Asia. Since then, Australia and Africa have also introduced apples.

In the past hundred years, apples have been planted all over five continents. The earliest Europeans ate apples and improved their choices. Some varieties were seen more than 2000 years ago. Before colonizing the United States, there were hundreds of known varieties in Europe.

Apple is a low-calorie food, producing only 60 kilocalories per100g. Apple is known as "living water" because of its high solubility and easy absorption by human body. It is beneficial to dissolve sulfur and make skin smooth and tender. It is said that "an apple a day keeps the doctor away".

According to FAO statistics, in 20 13, the world's apple output was 80.82 million tons, which was 77180,000 tons higher than that of grapes, ranking second in the world (the first place was banana:10.67 million tons). There is no doubt that apple is the king of temperate fruit.

Apple has been cultivated in China for more than 2000 years. According to legend, the "purple" eaten by Yu Xia is the red apple, which shows that apples have a long history in China.

Guo of the Jin Dynasty wrote: "There are many cases in the west, and every family takes cut dew as preserved fruit, and hundreds of them are accumulated, which is called regular food." At that time, it was known that "on the second day of the first month, if the axe is mottled, it will spare the child." That is, it is similar to modern girdling technology and promotes more achievements.