A bamboo basket is heaped with cut watermelon, peaches and tangerines, a flat bamboo tray holds chestnuts, walnuts and lotus seeds, red dates and dried persimmons sit on a wooden rack beside them, and a lake and hills lie beyond.
Fruit and nuts
Introduction
Melons, fruits, and nuts and seeds such as chestnut and walnut.
Fruits and nuts cover melons such as watermelon and sweet melon, fruits such as peach, pear and citrus, and nuts and seeds such as chestnut, walnut and lotus seed. Melons and fruits are mostly eaten fresh, and are also cooked in dishes, made into sweets or dried, as with red dates and persimmon cakes. Nuts are often roasted and eaten, or cooked in porridge and put into pastries. Peanuts and sunflower seeds, which came later, belong to Introduced Crops, and candied and preserved fruit belongs to Candies and Preserved Fruit.