Students who have brushed up on Japanese dramas will almost all know the magical fruit of Ome, and every Japanese drama can easily find the shadow of Ome, from Miki in the "Three Sisters of Tea And Rice" in "Late Night Canteen", who is still obsessed with this simple bowl of umeboshi tea for several years, and "Lonely Gourmet" also has the appearance of Ome...
Every year in April, Ome ushers in a wave of listing, and women brew ome wine in the summer to moisturize their faces. Born in China, qingmei is very old and very literary, such as green plum bamboo horse, wangmei thirst in the plum is referred to as green plum, green plum in China has a long history of consumption, dating back to more than a thousand years of history.
Opening the historical chronology of Ome, we can see that Ome has been moving since the Beginning of Xia Shang.
The allusion of "Ruo zuo and soup, Er wei salt plum" comes from the Xia Shang period, people cook less spices, commonly used is salt, soon someone found green plum, with its "acid" to increase the flavor, and gradually green plum and salt became the two most important condiments at that time.
Records of the medicinal use of plums existed in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and in the Tang Dynasty, dried plums were one of the best tributes. It was also at this time that Ome was brought back to Japan with the Tang envoys.
This ome from China has been out of control in Japan ever since, and even Japan has a special ome festival, which was born in the Warring States period. Every year on June 6, people go to the shrine to perform sacrifices, thank nature for gifts, and pray for the health of those around them.
Japan's earliest medical book "Healing Heart Formula" also has the figure of "Ome Dry".
To what extent do Japanese people like Ome? The local cultivation of omes in Japan is not enough for Japanese people to eat, and it is necessary to import a large number of omes every year, and it is said that on average, a Japanese person eats 10 kilograms of green plums a year.
Why did this fruit, which is not valued in China, have a great reversal of fate after arriving in Japan?
The Japanese people are obsessed with Ome, not just because of its delicious taste. There is a saying in Japanese folklore, "梅はその日の難の難れ (eat plums to avoid disaster on the same day)". This means: eat a grain of green plum in the morning, and the day will be smooth and peaceful.
And in the hearts of the Japanese, it is also a representative of healthy food.
Containing a variety of natural organic acids, there is a general consensus that plums have alleviated colds, fevers, gastrointestinal discomfort and other diseases since ancient times, and plums have a wide range of effects such as eliminating fatigue, regulating the stomach and intestines, and promoting blood circulation.
In Japan, the way to eat ome is extremely rich, such as pickled plum, plum wine, plum sauce, plum paste, plum drink, etc., the daily life of the Japanese has been inseparable from the consumption of plum products, bento box if there is no plum is not worthy of being called bento.
The green plums are fermented with salt and lactic acid bacteria and flavored with perilla leaves with their own natural purple and fragrant smell. In Japan, it is believed that prunes have miraculous disease prevention effects.
Umeboshi is a god-like existence in Japan, and among the poop of the poor, a dried umeboshi with rice is a full meal. Because the combination of umeboshi and rice resembles the Japanese flag, the umeboshi bento is also known as "Hinomaru Bento" in Japan.
In April, the grand food about Ome is to use it to brew a pot of Ome wine, the required materials as long as the rock sugar, wine, ome, adjust the proportion, a layer of plum and a layer of rock sugar, pour into the liquor for three months, in the summer you can appreciate its taste.