Kick off the swing and get up to straighten your hands.
Dew is thin and thin, and the sweat is lightly clothed.
See the guests come in, the socks are cut off and the gold is slipped.
And shyly walked, leaned on the door and looked back, but sniffed the green plum.
——Li Qingzhao, "Dotted Lips"
Plums are green, always when they were teenagers.
Shy little girls, green plums, in early summer, are all heartfelt.
In early summer, the warm wind is not dry, the sun is just right, and when you open your eyes, the branches are hung with green plums, which is the endless greenery between heaven and earth.
Take one, take a bite, the acid makes the whole face wrinkle into a mille-feuille cake, but the last thing people remember is this acid. Just like when I was young, I didn't know where to be uninhibited and impulsive, with some sour and astringent taste.
As soon as the summer comes, the day is hot, and people's appetite is naturally not good. Because of its sour taste, plums have been used since ancient times to "hope that plums quench thirst". Lixia is the season for picking green plums, and plums are the fruits of early summer.
Plums can initially be compared to salt and appear as a seasoning in the daily life of Chinese. Why is it that sour plums are not the first spicy flavors to be flavored?
According to the "Eight Notes of Zunsheng", in the sixth month of the lunar calendar, it is advisable to drink wumei sauce, papaya sauce, plum sauce, and cardamom soup to quench thirst. Ome is rich in organic acids, which can "quench thirst, stimulate appetite, eliminate fatigue", "have a significant effect on constipation and diarrhea", and "detoxify alcohol".
The most interesting and widely used thing about Ome is its pronounced sour taste. Before vinegar entered thousands of households, plums were "the most commonly used condiment in everyday life" and were used to cook meat.
Although later generations also often use "plum acid" to express that life is not easy, in the "Book of Shang", the sour taste of plum is juxtaposed with condiments such as salt, as a metaphor for the coordination of Zaifu Shigetomi, or different ideas should balance and complement each other to achieve the realm of "harmony" under the heavens.
Even today, qingmei often adds "sourness" to the diet: Jiangnan cuisine "honey juice fire party" should be decorated with green plums and cherries, Dali's "Cuimei sour and spicy fish" needs the fruit acid of green plums to reconcile the fishy, and the saltwater plums pickled by the Chaoshan people are also the perfect seasoning for steamed fish, steamed ribs, and steamed eels...
Today Chinese's diet daily, spicy taste galloping in the north and south of the river, Xu is a busy urban modern person, heart, taste buds have too much desire, to seek such a blind stimulation to let the tense nerves relax it. The blossoming in severe winter and the green plums that bear fruit in early summer should be compatible with the ancient people's life that is closer to nature and more idyllic.
Yongtai County, Fujian Province, is one of the main producing areas of plums in China, with a planting area of 56,000 mu, a unique mountain soil environment, pregnant with Yongtai's unique cash crops, and almost every household has planted plums. Its plum quality is excellent, and it enjoys a certain reputation in Japan, Taiwan and other markets.
Here, people have created a fresh trend to eat, the green plum into plum cake, the taste and nutritional value has not changed, the storage time is longer, you can eat sweet and sour green plum all year round.
Yongtai's plum cake selects the best quality Yongtai green plum, adheres to the artificial ancient method of drying, no additives, natural color, thick and seedless meat, moderate taste, sweet and sour, suitable for all ages. It contains a large amount of protein, a variety of inorganic salts, organic acids, and has many benefits for the human gastrointestinal tract.
After tea and dinner, throw a plum cake into your mouth and chew it carefully, not to mention how pleasant it is. It can be eaten one by one, and you can also take two or three and drink them. The body is uncomfortable and soaked in a cup of green plum juice, which is better to drink and warmer.