March is coming!
Spring blossoms, willows and greens,
The breeze is full of tenderness and beauty!
At this time,
In addition to appreciating the flowers and stepping to feel the spring breath,
You can also "eat" spring in your mouth.
How much do Yunnan people love to eat flowers?
In Yunnan, where spring is like all year round, people not only have a soft spot for all kinds of wild vegetables and mushrooms, but also the colorful flowers are also on their plate. How much do Yunnan people love to eat flowers? Roses, pomegranate flowers, walnut flowers, taro flowers, pumpkin flowers, framing flowers, gorse, panzhi flowers, pear flowers, rape flowers, palm flowers... Probably the Yunnan people themselves can't count it.
Pomegranate flowers
In Xinping, Yunnan, locals make a "banquet of hundred flowers" to welcome the arrival of spring. Making "Hundred Flowers Banquet" is actually not particularly complicated, simply choose the dish and clean it, you can process it according to personal preferences, and the methods are endless. If you like light and refreshing, you can choose cold mix; If you like a rich taste, you can stir-fry; If you simply want to taste the aroma of flowers, the most suitable way is to make soup...
A table of "Hundred Flowers Banquet" not only enjoys the blessing of the eyes, but also satisfies the mouthful, which is the most expressive way for locals to express their enthusiasm and sincerity when entertaining guests. Many tourists are very interested in marinated meat boiled kapok, the soup is rich and fragrant, which is a classic practice of the Dai people, and it is mouthwatering to watch.
Memories of hometown that are not tired of eating
In Hejiang County, Luzhou, Sichuan, soft sparrow grass is growing vigorously. Locals like to use it to make soft damselfish, not only because it is a mouthful of greenery and fragrance unique to spring, but also because it is a hometown memory that cannot be tired of eating.
According to the villagers, it is necessary to pick the young shoots of the soft finch, and the soft sparrow made from the young shoots is fragrant and crisp, and has the clear fragrance. When picking, by the way, also pick some tender flowers, you can put them in the soft finch dumplings, the color will be better. Wash the picked soft finch grass, put it in a pot and cook it soft, chop it and stir it with glutinous rice, steam it in a pot, pound it repeatedly after steaming, and finally spread it into the pot and fry it. The soft sparrow dumplings that have just come out of the pot have a sticky skin, and when eaten with soybean noodles and white sugar, it has more sweet aroma.
"Internet celebrity" spring limited
Every year in spring, the Youth League has become the object of heated discussion among the people in the Jiangnan area, and it is a proper "Internet celebrity" spring limit, they call the first time they eat the Youth League every spring as "biting spring".
Berry wheatgrass, also known as wild wheat, is one of the essential raw materials for Qingtuan production. The juice extracted from berry wheatgrass is not only a natural colorant for Qingtuan, but also an important source of Qingtuan's sweet smell. Only in February and March every year, the berry wheat grass is the freshest and fullest, so cutting the grass, juice and making the youth tuan at this time has become a ritual for the local people to welcome spring.
After beating the wheat grass juice, the juice and the rice flour prepared in advance are thoroughly stirred into rice flour balls, cut into ingredients, and then wrapped in traditional fillings such as bean paste and sesame seeds. In recent years, the filling of the Youth League has played tricks, including mushrooms, camelin, beans, dried maranxiang, etc., which have won the love of many children.
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What other "rituals" to welcome spring?
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Written and edited by Wen Jie