In June, there is plenty of sunshine, which is the time when litchi is ripe. Walking in the streets of Dongguan, you can see full, mature and attractive lychees everywhere, emitting a faint fragrance. "A thousand years ago", the mention of litchi always reminds us of Su Dongpo, a talented and determined poet. Today, we are much luckier than the ancients. Litchi orchards in Dongguan towns are enough for us to solve the litchi addiction that we have been waiting for a year. Not to mention 300, picked at the orchard site. If you are tired from your homework, you might as well pick lychees from the tree after your homework and prepare all kinds of lychees in the sun, which will bring you an unforgettable trip to the farmhouse.
Major travel agencies have also arranged many sightseeing routes with the theme of picking lychees, so that urbanites can visit fruit forests, pick lychees and taste good fruits, which has greatly promoted the development of local economy. Litchi can also be processed into dried litchi and litchi wine. In the harvest season, some hotels and restaurants also provide delicious food such as litchi feast with strong local characteristics, and the lush litchi forest has become the primary feature of Dongguan Eco-Greentown. The most attractive thing is that tourists and guests personally go to the litchi garden to pick early-tasted litchi, which is very humorous. In the meantime, Dalang Town, Liaobu Town, Dalingshan Town, Changping Town and other major producing areas are the most distinctive.
Dongguan is known as the "hometown of litchi" and is famous at home and abroad for litchi with complete color, fragrance and taste. Dongguan litchi, which is "full of food", is known as "top grade in Lingnan". The climate and land in Dongguan are very suitable for planting litchi, and the lush litchi forest is the primary ecological feature of Dongguan. Litchi in Dongguan is recorded in the Records of Yuan Unification and the Records of Dade Nanhai. In the Ming Dynasty, large litchi orchards with "thousands of lychees" appeared in Chashan and Shilong, Dongguan.
During the Republic of China, Dongguan was the primary litchi producing area in the Pearl River Delta. In recent years, litchi varieties cultivated in Dongguan have changed greatly. Before the reform and opening up, Hu Aizhi was mainly planted in Dongguan, accounting for 60%-70% of litchi planting area. In the early 1980s, fruit farmers were encouraged to plant glutinous rice paste and cinnamon flavor. Now these two species account for 60%-70% of litchi area and output value, replacing the position of Hu Aizhi.