Located at the mysterious latitude of 30 degrees north, the stone pillar travels through the thousand-year-old Tujia style, and the elegant landscape conferred by heaven and earth is now well known by people in the name of "health care". The stone pillar "health care" is also divided into six yang, which refer to the observation and maintenance, the living maintenance, the animal maintenance, the cultural maintenance, the food maintenance, and the convalescence.
In the near future, Xiaobian will have a good chat with you through the "Six Yang Chapters". Today, we will walk into the chapter of food and nutrition lettuce.
Speaking of lettuce, it is estimated that many friends have not heard much. However, in China's coastal areas and Places such as Japan and South Korea, lettuce is very popular. Because lettuce is mainly cultivated in Chongqing Shizhu Huangshui, Zhejiang, Jiangsu provinces Taihu Lake Basin and Hubei Province, Japan and South Korea and other countries discovered the mystery of lettuce, so a large number of imports of lettuce. To this day, lettuce has become a very popular dish.
In Shizhu, as a specialty of "food and nourishment", lettuce is one of the facades. The nutritional value of lettuce is very rich, and it is a regular customer on the table of friends who love health care.
Lettuce, an aquatic plant, also known as water anemone, is a perennial root herb. Simply put, the naked eye looks like a small lotus leaf floating on the surface of the water. Don't look at its average appearance, but its edible and health value can be high.
Lettuce is rich in colloidal proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins and minerals, and has the health effect of medicinal and food dual uses.
When it comes to lettuce, we have to mention the story between it and the literati for thousands of years. As early as the Jin Dynasty, the "Book of Jin and the Biography of Zhang Han" has already mentioned lettuce, which says that Zhang Han missed the lettuce, lettuce soup, and sea bass in Wuzhong's hometown, and said: Life is precious in comfort and self-sufficiency, how can it be bound by merit and fame thousands of miles away? Therefore, he resigned his official post and returned to his hometown.
After this story, lettuce gradually spread. He Zhizhang, Bai Juyi, Du Fu, Su Shi, Mei Yaochen, Xin Zhiyi, Yang Wanli... Then to the Qianlong Emperor who loved Jiangnan, he wrote poems about eating lettuce in Jiangnan. It is also because of them that "lettuce" has maintained fresh vitality after thousands of years.
Since ancient times, things have been rare and expensive. With the acceleration of the urbanization process, the ecological environment in many parts of the country has been polluted, so the number of places that meet the conditions for planting lettuce is decreasing, and the total domestic lettuce production is difficult to further expand, so the price of lettuce remains high.
In China, many gourmets call lettuce "bird's nest in the water", in addition to the overall domestic output is not high, the rarity is expensive, and why?
Lettuce itself is extremely effective. Lettuce is taken internally and externally to help keep the skin moist and hydrated, while also resisting heavy metal contamination.
According to many local farmers who grow lettuce in Shizhu Huangshui, after the sunburn is busy farming, the locals often apply the gum on the lettuce to the sunburn, which can effectively relieve pain and redness in a short period of time.
In Shizhu, the cultivation of lettuce is one of the key ecological agriculture industrialization projects developed in the process of poverty alleviation. As a planting base for Shizhu lettuce, Shizhu Huangshui began artificial cultivation as early as 1991. Today, in the yellow water of the stone pillar, you can see that every household has planted lettuce.
By 2020, Shizhu lettuce has been planted in an area of 14,000 mu, with an output of more than 14,000 tons, and Shizhu has become one of the largest lettuce production bases in China.
Shizhu Huangshui is located in the mysterious 30 ° north latitude, the average altitude of 1550 meters, the annual average temperature of 10 °C, beautiful mountains and clear waters, blue sky and green, excellent ecological environment, is a good place for tourism and vacation, the most suitable for summer summer, recuperation.
The excellent natural environment of the stone pillar just meets the growing conditions of lettuce. The conditions for lettuce planting should meet the sea dialing of more than 1200 meters, the water quality requirements are high, the living water must flow, the soil organic matter should be rich, the thickness of the silt layer is about 20cm, and the pH of the field is 4-6.
Lettuce is not only famous at home, but also very popular internationally. At present, Shizhu lettuce products are exported to Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia and other countries. Even in Japan, lettuce is sold per gram and is quickly sold out as soon as it is sold. As early as 2014, Shizhu lettuce created a foreign exchange of 2 million US dollars.
Lettuce is simple because the simplest way to cook it preserves the original flavor of the ingredients. Fresh lettuce is picked and soaked with edible acetic acid, which can be stored for a long time. When eating, rinse several times with water to remove the sour taste of vinegar, you can make a dish, cook soup or eat it directly.
At the stone pillar, cold mixing with lettuce is a favorite of the locals. Just blanch the lettuce in boiling water for 30 seconds, go through the cold water, and then mix well with a little soy sauce, vinegar, sugar, chili pepper, pepper powder and other spices according to your personal taste, which is a good appetizer.
Note: Make lettuce to avoid saltiness, which will affect its own clear taste.
When making any soup, you can add lettuce when it is almost cooked, and you can start the pot when it is boiling. The lubricating gelatinous texture of lettuce makes the soup come with the effect of thinning the lettuce, and the taste is more mellow. The famous West Lake lettuce soup is this practice.
In the hot summer
A simple dish of cold lettuce
Or cook a pot of lettuce soup with your heart
You will be able to feel the distance from 1400 meters above sea level
The coolness of Chongqing's stone pillar mountains!