In early spring and February, the temperature gradually rises and everything recovers, which is a signal that spring is coming. In Changning, in addition to enjoying the flowers in spring, you can also use flowers to make food.
Flowers have been served in the mainland for more than 2,000 years. Using flowers as ingredients, as early as Qu Yuan's "Leaving the Troubles", there is a verse that reads "The fall of drinking Mulan is exposed, and the autumn chrysanthemum of the evening meal falls to The Ying". The ancient literati and inkers showed their elegance with flowers, the princes and nobles showed their wealth and glory with flowers, and the famous ladies believed that "flowers are like flowers, and flowers are fragrant". Today, "eating flowers" has become the spring limit of Changning people, flowers or fried or fried, or boiled or mixed, the gorgeous beauty of flowers, let people in the flower into the food, in addition to the taste of the tongue and taste buds experience, but also the spirit of pleasure, elegant and interesting.
During this time, the kapok in Kas Town, Changning County, has been blooming vigorously, the kapok flowers are heavy, a gust of wind blows, some flowers will fall from the tree, eating kapok is the tradition of the Dai family, picking kapok is also the childhood memory of many Dai families living in Luo spoon village in Kas Town.
The practice of kapok is not complicated, pick up the flowers, remove the flower buds, leave the core and petals to rinse and blanch the water, the flower stem plus meat foam and pepper, ginger shreds and other condiments a stir-fry, is a plate of extremely low rice meat foam fried kapok; blanched petals squeeze dry water, with petals wrapped in dyed sticky rice, kapok fragrance and glutinous rice sweet mixed together, not delicious; the remaining kapok petals, supplemented by lemon, millet spicy, coriander and other spices code flavor, a bite down, full of fragrance, as if the whole spring is in the mouth.
Zhao Guihua, a group of villagers in Yilin Community, Kas Town, said: "Every spring, when the climbing branches fall, we Dai people will pick them up and make vegetables to eat, the petals are used to fry bacon to eat, and the cores are used to be eaten cold. ”
According to the locals, kapok can not only be edible, but also has high medicinal value, can strengthen the spleen and dispel dampness, soothe the liver and nourish the stomach, moisten the lungs and relieve cough.
"We Dai people rely on the mountains to eat the mountains and rely on the water to draft water, because the Kas Dam is heavy, and the climbing branches can relieve heat and dampness, so we pick it up and eat it." Jin Shaohua, a group of villagers from the Yilin community in Cass Town, said.
In Luo spoon village of Cass Town, for the children of the Dai family, the kapok feast is not only a simple food, but also an accumulation of history, and each dish is infiltrated with the Dai people's summary of the wisdom of life and their yearning for a better life.
Reporter: Zi Qingsong Luo Ningjiao 丨 Correspondent: Zhou Jie (Cass Town)
Editor: Yang Li
Audit: Shi Yingfa