The hometown has the tradition of growing winter greenhouse vegetables, a spacious and bright greenhouse, a green ripple of celery grows happily, the hair is beautiful and tender, emitting wisps of fragrance, a look that makes people happy.
Mother is very old, can not move the greenhouse vegetables, the last time she went home to see her, she had earlier to the greenhouse to pull a large bundle of celery, let me take it back to eat, she said happily: "Celery fried meat to eat is not enough, eat celery is good, can relieve alcohol, can lower blood pressure, squeeze juice as tea to drink, but also healthy brain, cure migraine." ”
Celery, also known as parsley, parsley, parsley, is a common vegetable of the umbelliferous family. Native to the Mediterranean coast, it was introduced to China through the Silk Road through Central Asia Minor, and began to be cultivated in the Han Dynasty, which has a history of more than 2,000 years.
It has long been recorded in China's first poetry collection, the Book of Poetry, and The Cloud of Xiaoya Caishu says: "Boiling sill springs, words and celery." "Lu Song Pan Shui" said: "Si Le Pan Shui, thin picking its celery." "It all describes the scene of the ancestors happily picking cress on the water's edge.
The ancients gave a rich cultural connotation to the cute and fragrant celery of Qingxiu. From the Verse Sutra, "Si Le Pan Shui, Thin Picking Its Celery" sentence. Derived from "Panchi" and "Pangong", both of which mean the Palace of Learning; and "Panqin", by extension, is the ancients who took the examination of talents in the Palace of Learning. CaiQin refers to the fact that Xiu Cai became a county student member in the examination, and later specifically refers to the enrollment of children. The Southern Song Dynasty poet Wu Fu composed "Qian Guangwen Cai Qin Ting", which reads:
After the enlightenment, the school day rises, and the literary style of a thousand miles is once male.
The celery on the pond shakes the water blue, and the algae in the tent reflect the red yarn.
The poem places high expectations on children who have just entered school.
"Liezi Yang Zhu" recounts a story of "the dedication of beautiful celery", to the effect that someone praised and recommended the sweet taste of several kinds of vegetables such as celery to the rich people in his hometown, so the rich people took celery to taste, but unexpectedly caused tongue irritation and diarrhea, they laughed at it, and complained, and the person who recommended celery was also greatly ashamed of it. This story leads to many humble words. "Qin exposure", modestly describing his own contributions or superficiality of his own suggestions, such as the southern Song Dynasty poet Liu Kezhuang's poem:
Approving Tu once raised a word for his duties, and Qin exposed his old heart.
- "Ju Hou Di and the Seventy-Four Yin Re-Endowment"
It means that I have contributed too little to the country and have to retire and return to my hometown. "Qin Yi", humbly describing his own meager intentions, such as the Northern Song Dynasty famous minister and calligrapher Wen Yanbo in the "New Brewed Wine To Wu Cai Second Vice Shu" Yun: "This flower is still not yet issued, this wine has been incensed first." Unique sweet and celery meaning, open bottle slightly to taste. "Send a friend two urns of newly brewed wine, and be humble." There are also "Qin Jing" and "Qin Xian" and "Qin Xian", all of which humbly claim that their gifts are thin or superficial. Such as the poem Xian Li Bai verse:
In vain, there is a heart of celery, and finally weeping jade cry.
- "Ling Fan Jinqing. Part 1》
I embraced the precious jade and wanted to offer it to the court, but I wept bitterly because there was no way to make it. The poem Saint Du Fu's "Cold Tao of Locust Leaves" has a sentence: "The offering of parsley is small, and the recommendation of the algae is a small area." Acacia leaf cold tao is a kind of cold food in ancient tradition, and poets use it to express their meager meaning. The Tang Dynasty border poet Gao Shi's poem "From Qi on the Way to the Yellow River" says: "There is still a heart of dedication, and there is no reason to see the Lord." Although the poet has a good strategy to save the people, he has no reason to reach out and expresses his resentment.
Celery has an auspicious meaning in the eyes of ordinary people. During the New Year, some people prepare Chinese New Year's Eve meals and like to cook dishes with celery, because "celery" and "diligence" are homophonous, and "celery" is harmonic "diligent", which means "diligent and fast" in the new year; and because the celery leaf stem is hollow and transparent, it means "the road is smooth" and "the road is accessible". A green celery tree, in the simple folklore, brings so much little cuteness and little joy.
In ancient times, there were dry parsley and cress, and the dry parsley in the north was called Chu Kui, Red Parsley, and Purple Parsley. There are many mentions of purple celery in ancient poems, such as the Tang Dynasty poet Wang Jian's "Title Pei Virgin Bixu Xijue" in "Spring Garden Purple Celery Chang Zhuo Zhuo, Warm Spring Grass Bush", describing the scenery of the mountains and countryside ridges is quiet and lovely; the late Tang Dynasty poet Xu Hun "Canglang Gorge" has "red shrimp and crucian carp purple celery crisp, return without quitting the road", the delicacy of the mountain gorge people's homes is unforgettable! The late Ming and early Qing dynasty poet Qu Dajun's song "Buy Pitang", the first sentence of "buy Pitang, half planted celery, a winter fragrant full of stems and leaves", let us appreciate the enticing freshness and freshness of celery in the early winter garden.
The nature born in the southern water country is called cress, also known as water Ying, Chu Kui, and some people call it white parsley. In ancient poems, there are often cress swaying figures. It is born on the edge of the pool, and the pool has a charm. Xu Hun of the Late Tang Dynasty said:
Celery root leaf stone pond shallow, tung tree falling flowers Jinjing incense.
- "You Jiang Ling Old House"
It grows on the riverside, and the riverbank has style. Wang Guangyangyun in the early Ming Dynasty:
Hundreds of flowers bloomed on ivory beach, and the terrace was seen again when it was uneven.
The green celery edge is sandy, and the snow-colored anchovies come into the water.
- "On the River"
It originates from the cliffs, and the mountains have a smell again. Tang Dynasty Han Yu poem: "Boiled artemisia parsley with vegetables, peeled by fruit". Cress is considerable and rewarding, and can be tasted!
There are many ways to eat celery, cold mix, hot stir-fry, meat and vegetarian, all pleasant teeth and cheeks. The most distinctive, it is said to be a dish called "parsley bijian soup", which originates from the poem in Du Fu's Tang Dynasty", "AccompanyIng Zheng Guangwen to visit the mountain forest of General He": "Fresh crucian carp silver silk, parsley bijian soup." "Parsley soup is a vegetable soup made of celery, sesame seeds, fennel, salt, etc. In his book "Mountain Family Offerings", Lin Hong of the Southern Song Dynasty introduced the practice of this soup: "Wash it, blanch it in soup, take it out, study the mushroom with bitter wine, add a little salt, and stain it with fennel, and make it into a soup." But the one who is wet and soupy is clear and sweet, and it is like a stream. "It's a vegetarian diet based on celery.
The most beautiful way to eat celery is to stir-fry shredded meat, stir-fried shredded chicken, and wild game. The Southern Song Dynasty politician and literary scholar Zhou Bida compiled the "Erlaotang Poetry", all of which are good stories in the poetry world, of which Yun: "Shuren wisps of dove as a dove, with celery." Or for Shi Yun's 'I wanted to make up for the parsley, but I knew it by chance'. This "dove and celery poem" was ridiculed by posterity, and this Sichuan dish was also criticized by diners, because "celery (harmonic qin) can make up" and "make it up", both of which conceal a "clumsy" word, which is a post-break sentence to criticize others' poor craftsmanship.
More importantly, celery can also be used in medicine to treat diseases. As early as the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Shennong Materia Medica recorded that cress had the effect of preserving blood veins, improving qi, and making people fat and hungry. In the Tang Dynasty Sun Simiao's "Thousand Golden Food Treatment", celery is considered to be "bitter, sour, cold and astringent, and non-toxic." Strengthen the muscles, go to the heat. Cure five kinds of yellow diseases, raw mashed juice cold serve one liter, two days. Li Shizhen of the Ming Dynasty recorded several prescriptions in the "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Children vomit with celery cut finely, boiled juice and served; urinary pain, with water celery (those with white roots) to remove leaves, mash the juice, water to take; urinary bleeding." There is cress mashing juice, and it is taken six or seven times a day. It can be seen that celery is cool and bitter, non-toxic, and has the effect of calming liver heat, dissolving phlegm, strengthening stomach diuresis, dispelling wind and dampness, calming and lowering blood pressure.
Celery is cold and cold, hardy and afraid of high temperature and strong light. Right now, it's time for celery in greenhouses to hit the market. At the end of the year, send you a handful of green and tender celery, give you a small fresh little cute, may you be diligent and diligent in the new year, diligent and diligent, diligent and diligent!
-Author-
Liu Qirui, male, a native of Tancheng, Shandong, a veteran literature lover, published the essay collection "The Song of that year", "Nostalgia is a Curved Blue Moon" and the short story collection "Hedong Hexi".