Chinese learning program in the city of Kunming will show you a famous kind of fruit that is widely loved by local Kunming people, which is Bao Zhu pear. Bao Zhu pear originates in the Cheng Gong County in the suburban district of Kunming in Yunnan, which is a special local fruit there characterized by its white meat, crispy taste, juiciness, sweetness and delicate pleasant smell.
Basic introduction of Bao Zhu pear will be showed when you learn Mandarin Chinese in China. As a type of special local fruit in Cheng Gong County of Kunming in Yunnan, Bao Zhu pear is well-known throughout Yunnan Province. In the September of 2005, Cheng Gong Bao Zhu Pear was successfully registered in the Trade Mark Office of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce. It is among the five major brands of Cheng Gong County.
Features of Bao Zhu pear are also introduced when foreign students come to study in China. Bao Zhu pear stands out among other types of pear in Yunnan due to its unique features. It is round with a general weight of 200-330 grams. Some bigger pear could be up to 500 grams. Its other important features are its thin peel, light yellow and green color, white meat, crispy taste, juiciness, sweetness and good smell.
If you study Chinese in Yunnan, you will know more about Bao Zhu pear. With an average attitude of 1900 m, there is red soil and paddy soil in the county of Cheng Gong. The general climate of Cheng gong is characterized by its humid summer and dry winter, with an annual precipitation of 800-1200 mm, average temperature of 14.9-15.5℃, annual average sunshine time of 2232 hours, and a frost-free period of 285 days. Bao Zhu pear enjoys a warm and mild climate, and the planting requires strict conditions of water quality, soil, temperature and environment. Consequently, Bao Zhu pear can only be planted in a limit range of the districts.
You will also know that in the year of 2009, Kunming Municipal Quality Supervision Bureau examined and approved the Comprehensive Standards of Cheng Gong Bao Zhu Pear when you learn Mandarin in Kunming. It is formulated strictly according to relative national and local standards and relative technical documentation, integrating the actual situation of Cheng Gong’s standardized production and theories.
HSK preparation program in China will also show you a story about this famous kind of fruit. Many years ago, there is a monk named Bao Zhu living in the city of Kunming. His original name was Bao Yu. He had no parents and pastured animals every day. A drought came in one year, and local people’s farmland could not bear any crops because of the drought. Some local people even starved to die.
Bao Yu went out to herd his horses. Suddenly, a sweet smell came. Bao Yu looked up to the top of the mountain; he found many green fruits there. He left the horses there, and ran to the mountain top. Many foreign students who took summer program in China would be so interested into what would happen next.
When Bao Yu got to the mountain top, he found many green fruits as large as a feast growing on those trees. He was so starved and thirsty than he picked some of those fruits and ate them. Even if those fruits tasted not good, but it could make people feel less hungry. Bao Yu went back to the village and told local people about what he found. Just as what you knew when you were in internships in China, local people went to the mountain top and picked some fruits. Seeing local villager finally got something to eat, Bao Yu was so happy.
Bad things often came. A rich and evil man came with his servants and said those trees with fruits had been owned by him. He charged that local people were eating his “property”. Villagers argued that they had never seen the man planting those trees. If you read the story when you came to study Mandarin Chinese in China, you would know that when those people turned back, all of the trees were disappeared.
Watching all these things happening, Bao Yu was so sad and he walked around the mountain all day long to figure out a way to plant fruits trees in the mountain. One night, he met an old monk, and the monk said, “if you want to plant fruit trees, you need to find tree seedlings. You must be wondering where you can find those tree seedlings. They are in you house.” Bao Yu went back home and found the fruit tree seedlings as told in your classes of one-on-one Chinese learning programs in the city of Kunming.
Bao Yu went back and found the tree seedlings, and he planted those seedlings at night. In the next morning, tall trees with fruits came out and local villagers finally had something to eat. Bao Yu decided to be a Buddhist as the old man who helped him and changed him name into Bao Zhu. In order to thank Bao Zhu, local people gave the name of Bao Zhu pear to the fruit as you knew when you traveled to learn Chinese in China. When you come to Kunming, you can try the fruit and read about the story.