On May 20, a sweet day ("520" in Chinese is homonymous to "I love you"), a 
poster themed lychee from Guangdong, China appeared on the landmark screen at 
Times Square, New York, USA, according to Xinhua Screen Media Co., Ltd., who 
tenants the China Screen. 

This year, lychee from Guangdong welcomes another good harvest. They will be 
exported to Canada, the United States, Chile, Australia, Japan, South Korea, 
Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Dubai, Nigeria, South Africa and other 
countries. In early June, the lychee will arrive at supermarkets in these 
countries. 

What kind of fruit it is? Is it edible, or sweet?

The 66-year-old John has been to Guangdong China this year. "Lychee is popular 
in China. It has been cultivated for a long time. It may be beyond your 
imagination that thousand-year-old trees can bear these bright reddish fruits," 
he said. The fruit is sweet and fragrant with white flesh in red armor, and it 
will grow on people.

Genzi Town, Gaozhou City, Maoming in Guangdong China, is known as the home of 
lychee. It has been two thousand years since this town planted lychee. As early 
as the Tang dynasty, lychee from Gaozhou was a tribute to the imperial court of 
ancient China. There is an old lychee orchard in Baiqiao Village, Genzi Town, 
called Gongyuan Orchard. It's said that the lychee that Gao Lishi, a eunuch 
from Tang dynasty paid tribute to beauty Yang came from this Orchard.

The flesh contains up to 66 percent glucose. Besides, there are protein, 
multiple vitamins, organic acid and other nutrients. People may have a question 
about how to eat lychee. John said, "It smells well, but we do not directly 
gnaw its thick rough skin. Remove it and bite the while flesh. Let the sweet 
juice fill your mouth, like the taste of first love."

Visitors are invited to taste this sweet fruit grown out of the 
thousand-year-old trees.

Source: Xinhua Screen Media Co., Ltd.

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   Caption: Lychee from Guangdong, China appeared on landmark screens in North 
America, Southeast Asia, Middle East and other regions.