Why did the ancients harvest honey on the winter solstice

The main reason is: every year before and after the winter solstice festival within ten days is the best period of winter honey quality, this period of honey harvested pure flavor thick, in the regal 5-8 degrees temperature conditions from liquid to solid.

General winter honey collection of flower sources are duck-footed wood, wild cinnamon, camas flowers, loquat flowers, wild flowers, etc., but the most sought-after when the duck-footed wood winter honey.

Expanded Information:

1, the winter harvest of the honey of the hundred flowers is generally darker in color than the other seasons, contains more minerals, and nutritional content is more complete.

2, winter air dry, this time the concentration of nest honey than other seasons harvested nest honey are higher, so the quality is better.

3. Traditional native beekeeping usually cuts honey around the winter solstice, so it is called winter honey.

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