September is the perfect time for grape picking in Dazeshan - miss it and you'll have to wait another year
September belongs to the town of Zeshan. Among the verdant green ridges, heavy bunches of grapes hang from the treetops, gathering emerald and flowing vermilion, flashing red and glinting purple, already presenting a scene of intoxicating beauty. The whole mountain is filled with drifting fragrance, the whole mountain ripples with laughter... The town of Zeshan is waiting for visitors from all over with its uniquely distinctive charm!
Dazeshan is the "Hometown of Chinese Grapes", with a planting history of more than 300 years. Owing to its unique geography and climate, the grapes produced here have large clusters, plump berries, bright color, thin skin, tender flesh, and are sweet and juicy. The famous poet He Jingzhi came to Dazeshan and happily wrote an inscription: "A gem of a foreign land, a fairyland of grapes".
Uniquely distinctive, the special soil and unique climate conditions are very suitable for grape growing, making Dazeshan grapes have a long ripening cycle, beautiful color, sweet taste, small seeds, and high and stable yields, and they can ripen in mid-to-late August.
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Grape flowers blooming
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Grapes setting fruit
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Grapes ripe
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21 kinds of Zeshan grapes
Dazeshan grapes have more than 200 varieties in total. Among the table varieties, Muscat Hamburg (Rose fragrance) and Zexiang won gold medals at the 2nd National Agricultural Exposition in 1995; the developed and cultivated Golden Finger grape won the title of "China's Sweetest Grape Champion" for two consecutive sessions at the "China High-Quality Grape Competition".
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Muscat Hamburg (Rose fragrance)
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Golden Finger
Going to Dazeshan to eat grapes and enjoy the mountain scenery has already become a golden route for autumn travel, receiving more than 400,000 visitors a year! Dazeshan grapes generally start in late August on the Gregorian calendar and continue until mid-October. In the early period, Muscat Hamburg is the best, and in the later period, Zeshan No. 1 is better. During the National Day holiday, you can also buy chestnuts, hawthorn, and Golden Delicious apples, which are rarely seen in recent years.
Good-quality grapes have a glossy appearance, deeper color with a white bloom, and plump berries, indicating they are ripe and of excellent quality~
When fresh grapes are gently lifted by hand, the berries on the stem are firm and fewer fall off~
In recent years, the government has organized farmers' cooperatives to carry out grape production and sales, and the cooperative institutions have taken on part of the sales tasks. According to the characteristics of grapes as a fruit, they have explored delivery methods for sending fresh fruit through logistics and other means, using e-commerce platforms to send high-quality products to all parts of the country.
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Jointly creating the first online grape festival with China Agricultural Information Network