Folk Culture of Watermelon in Dali

Dali watermelons are also cut constantly with the hard work of Dali people. Before and after Tomb-Sweeping Day, they plowed and planted seeds. They joined hands with each other to help each other, and the division of labor was responsible for digging, sowing and cultivating the soil, and worked hard. Around the Dragon Boat Festival, they carried water and rice for a whole day. In midsummer, worried about the drought of melon seedlings, careful farmers carried water to water the melons, a bunch of melons and a ladle of water until the melons grew to the cage mouth. As a result, the melon turned red, tanned, round and tired. When they bent down to sow melon seeds, when they sat on the ground and chewed hard steamed bread, when they took off their coats and touched their swollen and painful shoulders supported by shoulder poles, they never called for bitterness or fatigue, but when they watched the watermelons grow long and round in the garden, they were so happy that the furrow-like wrinkles on their faces would surely blossom.

Dali watermelon is a symbol of Dali people's hard work. Dali watermelon is the crystallization of Dali people's sweat. Dali people are proud of Dali watermelon, and Dali watermelon is even more proud of Dali people. Dali melons are more fragrant and more beautiful.

Dali watermelon is not only fragrant in color, but also sweet in taste. Looking at a red moon from a distance and a boat from a distance, the red flesh is embedded with spots, which is really attractive. The flesh of melon is made up of melon flesh as big as rice grains, which is dense and juicy, but does not leak. Around the melon seeds, it is all white, like being wrapped in a layer of gauze, more like being sprinkled with sugar. As soon as the sun shines, the pulp is dazzling red, the seeds are shiny black, and the juice between the pulp is also flashing. People reach for it, bite with their mouths open, chew a few times, and the juice in their mouths overflows to the corners of their mouths, so that you are covered with honey. If you swallow it in one gulp, the juice will penetrate into every pore of you and dye you all over My Sweetie. At this time, the taste of orange juice, orange powder and white sugar water has no breath at all. You are really immersed in the sweetness from nature. Really should be the sentence' red mortar, dried rock sugar, bite by bite, flowing in one hand'.

Why is Dali watermelon so big, so fragrant and so sweet? This is inseparable from the climate and soil in Dali. Dali is located in the eastern part of Guanzhong Plain and the southern edge of Loess Plateau. Its typical temperate semi-arid climate provides unique natural conditions for the growth of watermelon. Lianshan in the north, Weishui in the south, the Yellow River in the east and Luoshui in the middle. The loess soil at the intersection of the three rivers has created a superior geographical environment for watermelon high yield. In addition, Dali people, known as a big agricultural county, have long groped for experiments and formed a set of patented watermelon experience, which has made Dali watermelon famous. Maybe Dali watermelon is only suitable for this kind of water and soil! Why else can't outsiders learn such a thrilling watermelon?