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Seek legends or stories about mangoes.
Mango is one of the famous tropical fruits. Mango fruit contains sugar, protein and crude fiber. The precursor carotene content of vitamin A contained in mango is extremely high, which is rare among all fruits. Secondly, the content of vitamin C is not low. Minerals, protein, fat, sugar, etc. It is also its main nutritional component. Can be used to make fruit juice, jam, canned food, pickled food, hot and sour kimchi, mango milk powder, candied fruit, etc.
Plant culture: Patterns of leaves, flowers and fruits of mango trees can be seen in Buddhist and Hindu temples in India. Hindus believe that the five petals of mango flower represent the five arrows of Kamadwa, the goddess of love, and mango is used to worship Saraswati. From 1556 to 1605, the mughal emperor Akbar had an orchard planted with100000 mango trees near Delhi. Such a large-scale mango orchard was rare in the world at that time.
It is recognized that the first person who introduced mango into India was Master Xuanzang, a monk in the Tang Dynasty in China, and it was recorded in The Tale of the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty that "Amber fruit is a treasure of the world". Later, it was introduced to Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia and other Southeast Asian countries, and then to Mediterranean countries. It was not until the18th century that it spread to Brazil, the West Indies and Florida, USA, where there were large mango forests.
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