Chestnut season

Chestnuts ripen between September and October.

At the beginning of May, chestnuts began to sprout as the weather got warmer. From late May to early June, chestnuts began to blossom; During September -65438+ 10, chestnuts slowly opened their mouths, and the chestnuts that had been waiting for a year were finally ripe.

When the chestnuts are ripe, some naturally fall, and some need to stand under the chestnut tree and hit the branches with bamboo poles before the chestnuts fall. Sometimes, some of them will fall with spiny shells. It is common for them to be stabbed, but the harvested fruit is worth watching. There is a folk proverb in China called "Hawthorn in August, chestnut in October laughs". Chestnuts are sweet, delicious and nutritious, and are called "the king of thousands of fruits". October chestnut, also known as big chestnut, chestnut and hairy chestnut, is a specialty of China. Chestnuts can be eaten raw or made into cakes, vegetables and porridge. What is most popular with consumers is sweet and refreshing sugar fried chestnuts, roasted chestnuts or fried chestnuts. Chestnuts were called wooden swallows in ancient times.