April mulberries for sake tea!
One by one beauty health care April order
In April, the silkworms are busy, the palm-sized mulberry leaves are spreading in the south wind, and the farmers are in a hurry, eager to sow melon seeds, and new shoots break out after the rain. Song Dynasty Fan Chengda Pastoral Miscellaneous Poems:
Day out of the field of night performance hemp,
The sons and daughters of the village are in charge.
Tong Sun did not solve the offering of cultivation and weaving,
Also Sang Yin learned to plant melons.
Before and after the village, mulberry trees are the most important trees, and in the farming society, the farmhouse mulberry garden represents the oldest and longest pastoral scenery. Mulberry leaves grow faster, eat encroachment grows, and people live longer. The young leaves are washed and blanched and mixed with the seasonings for a unique flavor. Roast the tea and relieve the fire and moisten it.
In early spring and summer, the mulberry trees are knotted, red, purple and purple, and the happy children take them off and put them in their pockets as snacks, sweet, and their mouths and clothes are dyed purple.
Manly men re-replenish, take a batch of mulberries by the way at the end of the work, make medicinal wine, and each meal is small, sweetening the day and making up for the body. Especially in April, it is necessary to drink mulberry wine, which can cure diseases such as wind and fever. In addition, in April, a large number of mulberries are picked, pressed juice with honey and ginger juice, boiled into a paste, stored in porcelain, usually with a small cup, or flushed with hot water, or taken with wine, can cure all kinds of wind diseases. The housewives picked mulberries and dried them and stored them for later. The experience left by their ancestors told them that in the year of famine, mulberries can be used to save hunger.
