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The fingered citron has a
laudatory reputation of "Valuable kind of Fruits, Rare kind of Plants"
all through the ages. It is of best abundant ornamental value: the
shapes of the fruit are dainty and exquisite, a great variety of
Fantasies, indescribably wonderful; the fragrance of the fruit is
pleasant and can keep in a long time; the leaves are evergreen and
bright all the year round. In a word, we can say its color, fragrance
and shape are all best.
The "Compendium of Materia
Medica" is wrote though the fingered citron's flavor is not better,
its fragrance is best. If you put it into the bamboo-plaited basket,
its fragrance won't lose in several days. The northmen of China regard
the fingered citron as valuables which prese nted by their friends. At
the same time, it is wrote again, the southern people chased the
fingered citron as birds and flowers; made them into confect, then put
them on the desk for appreciation.
In ancientchina, the fingered citron
was the valuables in the family of high officials. "Dream of the Red
Chamber" described that the fingered citron was put beside the Yan
Zhenqing's painting in the room of Tanchun. A legend said when the
great litterateur of Su Dongpo of Northern Song Dynasty was an
official in Hangzhou, he went to the hill of North in Jinhua to view
the fingered citron only because of admiring its famous name. The
fingered citron's light scent blowed on the face before he reached the
orchard. He bolt out that
the
fragrance enter the spleen like a clear brook encircles the body.
In November 26th, 1960, chairman Zhu De come
Jinhua to inspect the work, he specially inspected the productive
situation of the golden fingered citron, and pointed out that the
country needed the fingered citron very much so you should raise
better. In the same year, after chairman Mao Zedong received the
fingered citron sent by the Jinhua people, he wrote back and
encouraged them to plant the fingered citron best. In 1984, the golden
fingered citron was regarded as the friendly "envoy" between Chinese
young men and Japanese's for the 21st century. When compatriots of
Taiwan come Jinhua to visit their relatives and took back the fingered
citron, they said:" Taiwan is one part of China, we can yearn each
other by the fingered citron." Its implied meaning is deep.
The officers of Embassy in China,
such as U.S.A., Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Finland, etc. and
foreign businessmen, crowded before the exhibition location of the
golden fingered citron one after another at" 99 agriculture exposition
of China". And they praised constantly when looking at the golden
fingered citron. One of the foreign businessmen thumbed up and said: "
OK, Chinese golden fruit."
It is obvious that the fingered
citron is the treasure for its fragrance, for interspersions in the
festival and for gifts to their relatives and friends.
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