I love sweet potatoes! Because it is a child who grew up eating sweet potatoes. When I was a child, there was a shortage of food, and there was half a year's grain for bran vegetables. But the sweet potatoes are "lifted", everywhere, full of hunger.
At that time, there was a song in the village that sang: "The red potato is white, and the wheat of the second team cannot come out." "The sweet potato noodles are sweet, and after eating for a while, it saves effort to." At the last and next meal, I ate all the sweet potatoes, and they were a little tired and crooked. But it's really bad to leave it, and it's really thanks to sweet potatoes.
Therefore, he later felt a song of oil, called: "Shaved White Potato":
Swing your arms and plane vigorously
The cat-waist woman shook weakly
Green stalk, green straw, holding stacked yards
Sweet potatoes are piled high
Wipe the jacket twice
Take a bite with a mouthful of cheeks
Leaf straw fine guillotine feeding cow pig
Melon noodles fill your hunger
Now I am not hungry, the rice and white noodles are always there, and I really want to eat sweet potatoes.
Come to Fuzhou, the days are more hungry, let the children go to the supermarket to find, there really is! I bought it and tasted it, "Huh? It's really sweet, and it's even better than my hometown's! "Every third and fifth, I often buy some to eat, and the picture is fresh."
Later, I learned that Fujian was still the birthplace of sweet potatoes, and there was also a "First Potato Hall" and a memorial hall in Wushan. It is said that during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, there was a local talent named Chen Zhenlong, who repeatedly tried and failed, so he abandoned Confucianism to do business and went to Nanyang to trade on Luzon Island (now the Philippines). At that time, Luzon was under Spanish rule, during which he found that the locally grown "vermilion potato", which could be eaten raw or cooked, was sweet and delicious, liked it, and was easy to grow, and it was passed down by the Spaniards and wanted to bring it. At that time, the Spaniards controlled it very well and did not allow it to be spread. After several setbacks, he managed to buy a nine-foot potato vine, put it in a bamboo tube and tied it to the side of the boat with a rope, and took the risk of secretly bringing it back to Fuzhou with the boat.
With the support and cooperation of the government at that time, the trial planting began, but did not want to succeed. Later, the harvest also relieved the famine caused by the great drought in central Fujian. The villagers were impressed, and a memorial pavilion was built locally to spread the future generations.
Later, this vermilion potato was also called sweet potato, sweet potato, and the Ming Dynasty government also gave it the name "sweet potato". What our hometown calls "white potato" is in the vast land of China, north and south of the river, and has spread inside and outside the Great Wall to this day.
Now that the living conditions are better, there is no shortage of rice and white noodles, and this sweet potato has become a favorite thing, and even potato seedlings have become a good health care product.
There is an open space in the small courtyard, and I also learned from Old Man Chen to get some potato cranberries, try to plant them, and live! Potato straw leaves are often pinched to make dishes, and I don't want to really bear two small white potatoes under the roots. Ha ha! Time! Experience! Slowly it's not a problem!
Today we eat sweet potatoes with sweet flour, taste potatoes and think of the source, shouldn't we thank the sages who once risked smuggling trial seeds?!
Taste the source of potatoes
Fuzhou Wushan Xiantato Hall
Ji Shi Xianzhe Chen Zhenlong
The adventure of the Chinese species begins
Nanyang traders break into Luzon
Raw and cooked, sweet, a taste
Secret bamboo hidden nine-foot vine
Food, hunger and famine
Hong, and the north and south mountains and rivers
(The first and last two pictures are selected from the Internet, thanks to the maker!) If the infringement is connected, it must be deleted. The rest are self-portraits, special notes. ）
March 2, 2023 diary
Yu Fuzhou