If you use the language of the ancients to describe spring, then spring is "Yuanyuan", which represents not only the beginning, but also the meaning of prosperity, such as "spring and autumn", "spring of reform and opening up" and so on.
The ancients did not hesitate to depict spring with pen and ink, and also used "spring" to name various beautiful things, such as the first of the ten scenic spots of Hangzhou's West Lake is "Su Causeway Spring Dawn", and Qinglian Jushi's "Fireworks in Yangzhou in March".
Spring is like a brocade
Spring is beautiful and evil, so why say that? The origin of spring originated from the legend of a tragedy
In the era when the tiger was still smoking, there was a monster called "Spring", although the name was very "harmless to people and animals", but the monster "Spring" was very greedy, it did not eat people, and liked to eat people's property, such as gold and silver and other property.
It has a characteristic: it always comes out in the season of withering grass and trees to endanger the world, and over time, people have discovered its weakness, that is, they are afraid of the days when flowers bloom, just like the "Nian Beast" is afraid of the bustle and firecrackers.
So people seize the weakness of "spring", plant flowers near the property and on the side of the road, to ensure that there are different flowers blooming at every moment, "monster spring" came out to commit crimes when the flowers were scared away, people in order to celebrate this victory moment, they named this season "spring", which also means "the plan of the year lies in spring"!
Chengdu, Sichuan: Du Fu Caotang
"Spring" is named after the gluttonous monster, and spring is indeed a season of delicious food, in this season, there are delicacies in the high and low places, on the trees, in the soil, in the water, land and air, there are spring shadows, toons on the trees, locust flowers, elm money, and tender willow buds.
There are more on the ground, the first is the leek, leek has "spring food is fragrant, summer food is smelly" saying, spring leeks are tender, once you miss this golden season, then leeks are "old and strong", can eat but it is really hard to eat!
When are spring leeks cut to be the most delicious? Then you have to ask the "poetry saint" Du Fu!
Du Fu Caotang
Du Fu wrote that the spring rain that is "as expensive as oil" is the song "Spring Night Happy Rain" that has been passed down through the ages, Du Fu "spoke with great breath", he praised the timely rain of spring, after drinking a sip of spring tea, he said "Night rain cut spring leeks, new cooking room yellow sorghum ..."
The poet who worries about the country and the people believes that on a spring night, there is a light rain in the sky, and the leeks that are tender enough to be cut and can be plucked out of the water are made into a dish, and the newly cooked millet rice is simply "this dish should only be in the sky"!
Du Fu Caotang
In 759 AD, in the second year of Emperor Qianyuan of Tang Suzong, after the "Anshi Rebellion", the 47-year-old Du Fu set out from Gansu with his family in order to make a living, came to Sichuan after several twists and turns, and the following year, with the help of his friends, he built several grass huts on the beautiful Huanxi side of Chengdu, Sichuan, which is the famous "Du Fu Caotang", also known as "Huanxi Caotang"!
Put to the present, Du Fu's house is the "river view room" in the provincial city, the geographical location is good and the promotion is fast, but for Du Fu more than 1300 years ago, this is the only place for his family to shelter from the wind and rain, there is no joy, some are just the embarrassment of "bu yu has been cold as iron for many years, and jiao'er is lying down and cracking".
Not only was he short of clothes and food, but "the bedside house leaked and there was no dry place, and the rain feet were like hemp not broken", the quilt was broken and cold, and the house was still leaky, especially in the rainy season.
However, Du Fu was happy in his bitterness, cutting leeks in the spring night rain, and comforting himself and his family's stomach with pure natural green food, because when people are hungry, they only have one idea, that is, how to fill their stomachs.
And the leeks that have been moistened by the rain on spring nights can not only fill the stomach but also be delicious, for Du Fu, it is the best of both worlds!
Du Fu liked to cut leeks in the light rain of spring nights, and also made a beautiful story,
In the spring of the second year when Du Fu and his family were in Chengdu Caotang, several guests made an appointment to visit Du Fu Caotang because they admired Du Fu's poems (it is impossible to have "Zhang Yuan, who burned paper full of Du Fu's poems into ashes and mixed with honey to drink).
Several people chatted speculatively, and when it was time to eat, there was no condition for calling for takeaway at that time, and Du Fu did not have money to go to the hotel, so he had to entertain guests, right?
As a result, Du Fu went to the kitchen to see that in addition to a handful of leeks and a plate of tofu residue, there were two "luxuries" for Du Fu: two eggs! How can this be done?
Du Fu's good name is not in vain, Du Fu after a short period of thinking about "a brother", and after whispering a few words to his wife, he began to busy in the kitchen.
Gourmet version of "Two Yellow Orioles Singing Green Willow"
After a period of operation, appeared in front of the guests three dishes and a soup, yes, Du Fu two mouths is to use the kitchen that little bit of the family to make three dishes and a soup, but also very poetic, Du Fu every dish has a word, he pointed to the leek fried double egg yolk and said: "This dish is called two yellow orioles singing green willow."
The second dish is also fried leeks, but the leeks are not egg yolks but white egg whites, Du Fu said: "This dish is called a line of egrets on the blue sky", the third dish is a plate of steamed tofu residue, guests look at each other, this can also be served?
Du Fu pointed to the tofu residue and said: "This is called the window containing Xiling Qianqiu Snow", and finally there is a soup: it is leek tofu residue soup, with four egg shells floating on it, good guys, two eggs are not even wasted eggshells, and really do "make the best use of things"!
Gourmet version: Menpo Dongwu Wanli Ship
Du Fu said that the dish was called: "Menpo Dongwu Wanli Ship!" ”
"Du's dishes" in the three dishes and a soup in the three inseparable leeks, but the name of the dish is full of different tastes, or not to say "afraid of hooligans have culture", people Du Fu said the shabby dishes so poetic, won the hall full of color, guests: there should be applause here!
It turns out that Du Fu's poems can not only be read but also eaten!
The poet Saint Du Fu likes to eat spring leeks, which is also a rare sentence describing leeks in ancient poems, and its popularity is not as funny as the "autumn spinach" in the autumn wave!
The first gourmet: Su Shi
In addition to "Du Fu brand leeks" in spring, there are also "Su Dongpo brand bamboo shoot stewed pork" in spring!
Su Shi this person is good, that is, the emotional intelligence is too low, the mouth does not open the door, always offend people, if it were not for his brother," his younger brother Su Rui repeatedly saved him, where did he have the opportunity to invent so many delicacies?
Su Shi invented braised pork made from local black pigs in Huangzhou, and also invented spring shoot stewed pork, he wrote a poem saying, "No bamboo makes people vulgar, no meat makes people thin." Not bad and not skinny, bamboo shoots stewed pork! ”
Foodie Su Shi
Su Shi not only likes "disaster from the mouth", but also likes to eat, the key is that people will eat and do, bamboo shoots, of course, "mushrooms after the rain" is the best, he also said "good bamboo even mountains feel the fragrance of bamboo shoots", this is not Su Shi's obscenity, people have written their own invented food into the "Old Food Endowment" this food notes.
Springing
Su Shi was relegated to the name of a gourmet, no wonder he likes to offend people so much, he not only likes to eat bamboo, but also likes to eat spring wild vegetables and puffer fish, the puffer fish in "Huichongchun River Evening View", the artemisia that has just emerged, which is the "spring seasonal vegetable" on his table!
Foodie Su Shi
Du Fu Sushi likes spring food, modern people prefer, cabbage in the wheat field, mother-in-law, a handful of elm money on the tree, toon buds, is this not all the elements of spring?
Spring, from ancient times to the present, is a season of "foodie rage"!