Studies On Culture Heritage Of Ancient Jujube Gardens In China

Jujube was originated from China, ancient jujube garden is the garden with historical value and on the basis of jujube location. Ancient jujube gardens location were often as the origin center of jujube cultivation, The formation and development venation of ancient jujube gardens reflected that the scale of jujube cultivation in our country expand continuously and growing value was reflected constantly. Several existing ancient jujube gardens of jujube producing region in the north of China was the important basis that people understand and know the development and evolution of ancient jujube culture and was also the important object of agriculture cultural heritage protection today.Jujube originated from wild jujube, Chinese toiler in ancient China select good fruit characters from wild jujubes in the long-term production and life. The origination of jujube dated from the river valley area of Shanxi and Shanxi in the middle reaches of the Yellow River.Then neighboring Hebei, Shandong, Henan and other places gradually developed. Historically jujube varieties through continuous breeding, and jujube cultivation techniques was also rising. Until the book "Qi Min Yao Shu" of Jia Sixie appeared, cultivation, breeding and other techniques have been more perfect system in ancient China, meanwhile jujube yard management, harvesting and processing of jujube, has also been developed more maturely than ever.Because of the characters including jujube trees itself was strong, not choosing land and the strong resistance for drought and flood, jujube was often as the pioneer trees of preventing wind and controlling sand and as one of the most important economic source by people of the jujube rejion. On this basis, some areas with cultivation of jujube trees concentrate and contiguous, often centered on the ancient jujube trees to establish the ancient jujube gardens. Although these ancient jujube gardens had more than one thousand years history, they still give play to the most basic production and ecological function, and still have very important significance in today’s society life. With the initiate of agricultural heritage projects and the development of sightseeing orchard and other forms of tourism in recent gardens, the ancient jujube gardens based on numerous ancient jujube trees begin to be realized and concerned by people, that not only showing the historic culture meaning of ancient jujube gardens itself, but also led to the economic growth of the ancient jujube gardens location.On the other hand, ancient jujube gardens and folk culture about jujube that represented by the myths and legends about jujube which were passing on historically in people’s life living in jujube region have been brought to the forefront and protected partly.Today existing ancient jujube gardens with typical meaning like Shanxi jiaxian millennial jujube garden, Hebei huanghua gugong jujube garden and so on, was not only as the genetic resources center of jujube, but also including rich jujube cultural information.Shanxi jiaxian millennial jujube garden was sprinting for "Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems", its development model and thought can provide a good reference for the development of the other ancient jujube gardens.On the other hand, some agricultural heritage even if had been listed in the candidates of "China Important Agricultural Heritage", because of the strength and depth of protection was not enough, still were caught in the awkward dilemma that difficult to balance protection and development. How to protect with developing, under the premise of without changing the cultivation mode of the ancient jujube gardens, use living spreading as the main measures to protect, it still was the important and difficult in the study of ancient jujube gardens cultural heritage.