The litchi is one of the Guangzhou's four well-known fruits and there are many different categories. Annual production number of litchi can reach to hundred million catties. The appearance of the litchi fruit is unique, the color of bright red is good-looking, the fruit pulp tastes like congealed lard, the fragrance is rich sweet and the flavor is distinctive. Whenever first month of summer, the litchi forest is continuous obviously everywhere in Guangzhou suburb, which are covered with many strings of rosy cloud litchi.

As early as the beginning of Han Dynasty of China, The litchi had already be listed as the high quality goods to the majesty palace, many well-known chapters for it in previous dynasties were also written, for example, there is a famous poetry that comes from Song Dynasty poet Su Dongpo as following, “Do not dismiss to be the Lingnan people forever if can feed 300 litchis every day.” Until now it still enjoyed great popularity.

The litchis can be differentiated according to the color, smell and tastes, there is one called “the glutinous rice fried ricecake” which owns thick meat and small nucleus, “cassiabarktree taste” which has sweet tasty, “Chinese scholar tree” which contains sweet and micro acid, and so on. According to the picking time, there is also “the glow of fire that could be seen for three months precociously”, the Late-maturing “black leaf” and so on.

Among all the rare valuable kinds, the most precious has to be calculated as “the tsengcheng litchi”. Its appearance is different from the common litchis, the red shell shows mini green, each fruit is surrounded a green line, and the fruit pulp is pure white and crystal clear. What's more, after its fruit is exhausted and placed on the soft-sized paper, the juice overflow paper is not wet, the flavor is especially neat, and every tooth remains fragrant for a long time. There has folklore about “the tsengcheng litchi”. Fair He, one of the Eight Immortals roamed the world, she returned to her hometown tsengcheng, and saw the flourishing Xi Yuan litchis, the beautiful scenery, then she stop down and sat to embroider under a litchi tree. Afterwards the East turned white, she hurriedly departed, but left wisp green velvet hanging on the tree. From then on, litchis on this tree all entangle the trace of green velvet, thus it is called “the litchi of hanging green”. This tree was planted in the Ming Dynasty, and its age has surpassed for 400 years.Now such kind of “litchi” that people can eat is mostly grow seedlings which truncate and graft from this tree. The fruit color and taste all well maintained mother tree's characteristic, but the price has the huge difference actually, In 2001, one litchi on mother tree is so expensive that sells to 55000 Yuan, and in 2002, it rises dramatically to more than 500,000 Yuan!

Besides “tsengcheng litchi”, there is the famous litchi called “the pen village glutinous rice fried ricecake”, “the cassiabarktree taste” of the Luo hillock, “the Shangshu bosom” of Xin Tang as well.

Chinese flowering quince, another name is long life fruit, is the third one of Lingnan four well-known fruits. The source area of Chinese flowering quince is South America Mexico, and spread to our country in 17th century, Area South China has the planter, but is most centralized by the Guangzhou suburbs, and he quality is also the best. Good varieties in Guangzhou have Lingnan Plant, Red Spike, and the Thai Red Meat etc. The first plant is best for its quality. Its fruit oval is plentiful, the meat is thick while seed are few, and it has the sweet-scented osmanthus fragrance.

The Chinese flowering quince includes the rich sugar, the protein and many kinds of Vitamins. It can purify the mind, run the lung and stop coughing, it can dispel summer heat, drive out the cold and urge mother's milk. When picking the ripen Chinese flowering quince on the tree, the fragrance are strong and tastes tenderly, which other fruit is hard to compare. If adding the crystal sugar to cook the food, then has the effect of running lung and purifying the mind. The immature Chinese flowering quince may be used to be the sugar soak or the salt acid, and eaten as vegetable. The Chinese flowering quince cooked to be soup with fish may treat gastric disease, get rid of to the lung heat and make the parturient woman to increase the milk. The Chinese flowering quince also may be made to many kinds of China and the West drugs of sterilization antibacterial, the aid digestion, treating gastric disease and even anti-cancer. In industry, it is the raw material of making the refinement enzyme.

Friends who come to Guangzhou for traveling or working never miss the opportunity of tasting Lingnan good fruit while enjoying Guangzhou delicacies and beautiful sites, and understanding Lingnan diet culture.

Guangzhou's tropics, subtropics fruit is various, and the fresh fruit goes on the market throughout the year. Therefore the high reputation of “township of the fruit” comes to our ears.

The banana is one of Lingnan's four well-known fruits. As early as more than 2,000 years ago, the level of cultivating banana of Guangzhou area had already quite horizontal. The banana is soft sweet and very delicious, it has special fragrance, rich nutrition, high edible value, and has functions of running intestines, falling the blood pressure, preventing angiosclerosis and so on. In a word, it is good for young and old. The banana of winter becomes “plum blossom dots” after the artificial ripening time, the skin color is golden yellow but covers entirely brown spots, the fragrant greets the nostrils, the fruit pulp sweetly seeps into the heart. Everyone does not tire of eating too much. There also has the Fen banana and Longya banana besides above-mentioned banana. The Fen banana is similar to the common banana, its fragrance is inferior to the banana, but the skin is thinner than it and can be stored for a long time. Compares to the banana, its output is few, and it is said also specially suits the old people and the child, so the price is slightly higher than the common banana. Longya banana's shape is curve, small, specially sweet and fragrant, which is praised as the king of bananas. The output is very few, and the price is common banana's several times.

Carambola is also called five edges because its fruit shape is special and vertical direction has five arris. And further because its cross section looks like five-pointed star, outside the native country it is called the star pear. It is one of the greatest reputation Lingnan good fruit.

The carambola fruit is light green and yellow, its skin is thin as membrane, its pulp is crisp slippery and juicy, the sweet acid is delicious, it can induce saliva and slake thirst, whose flavor is very special. Especially that called “Red Fruit” which is picked lately is extreme popular, such carambola has blue side, red meat, elegant fragrant and unique sweet.

The carambola varieties are very large, but the fruit that grows in Fang village, Hua Di is best known. In 1927, when Mr. Lu Xun was in Guangzhou, he once tasted it. After eating, he praised continuously as following, "We like the carambola mostly, it is slippery but crisp, acid but sweet. The Tea Red Fruit of Fang village is famous enough to compare with the Hua Di carambola.