Ten thousand mu of jujube flowers bloom, their fragrance drawing a hundred beekeepers to gather honey

Original title: Zaozhuang, Shandong: Ten thousand mu of jujube flowers bloom, attracting a hundred beekeepers

On June 2, in Dianzi Town, Zaozhuang City, Shandong Province, a beekeeper tends bees to collect honey in a jujube grove.

Recently, more than 60,000 mu of long jujube trees in Dianzi Town, Shanting District, Zaozhuang City, Shandong Province, have bloomed one after another, and the blossoming jujube flowers have attracted more than a hundred beekeepers from Shandong, Zhejiang, Sichuan, Anhui, Hunan and other provinces to keep bees and collect honey.

Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Xu Suhui

On June 2, in a jujube grove in Dianzi Town, Zaozhuang City, Shandong Province, beekeeper Sun Yifeng uses a hand-cranked centrifuge bucket to extract honey from the honeycomb.

On June 2, in Dianzi Town, Zaozhuang City, Shandong Province, beekeeper Han Zhaoyin inspects his bees in a jujube grove.