Tea picking is happy to return to the picture Dong Shouping, Huang Yi
Spring Rain Jiangnan Yang Mingyi
A tree cherry with rain red Zhang Daqian
Pinkfish figure Tang Yun
Boiled tea diagram Xie Zhiliu
Planting Fu Boulder
【Taste Shop】
Confucius said, "Do not eat from time to time." This means that the diet should be in season, and what is grown in whatever season is eaten. When it rains, the days are getting longer and longer, and the temperature is rising rapidly from north to south. Jiangnan has entered the rainy season, the rain in the north is also increasing, the air is gradually humid, and the air pressure is also starting to decline. So, what should we eat in the valley?
"Feather walking green ants, Shiding boiling toon." (Huang Zhi's "Dailu Reunion See Remuneration Ergeng Answer Five Songs") Gu Yu has the custom of picking toon. Around the time of the rain, toons are on the market. Toons are the shoots of the toon tree and are known as "tree vegetables". The well-documented custom of eating toon buds began in the Song Dynasty. According to the Northern Song Dynasty Susong's "Bencao Tujing", it is recorded: "Tsubaki wood is solid and leafy is fragrant. "In fact, toons started as just hungry wild vegetables, but later people found it easy to grow and taste, so they began to grow it widely. Chinese opera writer and health scientist Gao Lian recorded in detail the eating methods of toon buds in volume 12 of the "Eight Notes of Zunsheng", such as "Toon sprouts are picked from the head buds, blanched in soup, added less salt, dried in the sun, and can be kept for more than a year." Newcomers can enter tea, the most suitable for stir-fried gluten, old tofu, vegetarian dishes, all of them." In the Qing Dynasty, under the pen of the literary scholar and gourmet Yuan Zhang, toon buds were already "everywhere, especially lovers". Beautiful ingredients, even cooking is so simple. Ming Dynasty Zhu Wei said: "Pick young shoots and fry them, soak them in water, and mix them with oil and salt." Xue Baochen of the Qing Dynasty said: "Toons are blanched in boiling water and mixed with sesame oil and salt." Mixed with tofu, it is also good, fragrant and fragrant. And the exquisite combination of toon fried egg, stir-fried bacon with toon, and peanut rice with toon head makes this simple seasonal vegetable a frequent customer on the table of thousands of households. Some people also make toons into seasonings. According to the Qing Dynasty medical scientist Gu Zhong's "Yangxiaolu", "Toons are finely chopped, dried in the hot sun, ground powder, and fried into a pinch of rot." There is no fragrance in sight. ”
"Oriole pecking purple trees, May singing mulberry branches." (Li Bai, "Baitian Immediately Smells the Ying") Gu Yu has the custom of picking mulberries. Purple is mulberry. There is a saying in Beijing: "Cherry mulberries are sold at that time." "It shows that mulberries, like cherries, have a short freshness time and need to be eaten in time.
"Ma Lan is hesitant and takes the lead in time." (Sun Yuanheng's "With Zhu Kunji Yanhuai", Part 2) Gu Yu has the custom of mixing maran. Ma Lan, "Saving the Desert Materia Medica" called Ma Lantou, "Materia Medica" called Ziju, "Picking Yuan Fang" called bamboo grass, "Medical Forest Essentials" called Ma Lanju, "Song Ask Materia Medica" called cockroach, "Grass and Wood Side" called fish loach skewers, "Materia Medica" called red stem, Shanghainese called Crab head grass, Zhejiang people called Ma Lanqing, Hokkien people called Mao Li Cai, Yunnan people called Lanjian Xiexin, and some places are also called Malan vegetables, hairy wax vegetables, chicken intestines, lilies, roadside chrysanthemums and step front chrysanthemums, etc., which is one of the "three heads of green vegetables" (Maran head, toon head, wolfberry head).
"Seek seedlings and wolfberries, drag the rod and thin the hammer." (Deng Yubinzi's "[Double Tone] Yan'er Falls to Victory and Leisure"). Guyu also has the custom of stir-frying goji berries. Ming Xu Guangqi's "Complete Book of Agricultural Government" said: "Goji berries are born in high hills, but they are actually medicinal bait out of Ganzhou, and Huainan does not harvest them in the second year, and they harvest spring and summer and autumn, and the hungry are full for treasure." To save hunger, the villagers called it a beet head. In "Dream of Red Mansions", Xue Baochi likes to eat "fried goji berry sprouts with oil and salt". Goji berries were first found in the Han Dynasty's Shennong Materia Medica. Li Shizhen listed goji berries as a special description of the upper grade of this sutra: "Spring leaf picking, famous heavenly essence grass; summer flowers, famous evergreen grass; Autumn picker, name goji berry; Winter roots, famous bone skin. "(Compendium of Materia Medica) The young stems and leaves of goji berries in early spring, bitter and cold, can be cold mixed, boiled in soup, made into fillings, and fried meat.
"Before the rain in the Spring Valley, and pick the cigarette by hand." Gu Yu has the custom of eating new tea. Mingqian tea harvested during the Qingming season and pre-rain tea picked during the valley rain season are the finest teas of the year. Before the rain, the brown color is emerald green and the leaves are soft. Gu Yu tastes new tea, which has a long tradition and has become a habit. The Tang Dynasty poet Lu Xisheng has a poem as evidence: "On a rainy day in the valley of the mountain in February, the half-slope is fragrant and dewy." Spring sobering up and quenching thirst, take new shoots and spin frying. ("Yang Xian Za Song Nineteen Songs Mingpo") Many places in Hunan have the custom of drinking Gu Yu tea. On the day of the valley rain, people picked fresh tea leaves in the mountains early in the morning and made them with rice, peanuts, sesame, ginger, etc., which were sweet in the mouth and had an endless aftertaste. Drinking tea, paying attention to drinking with relatives, friends, neighbors, everyone chatted while drinking, not only enjoying the blessing of the mouth, but also feeling the warmth of the world.
(Author: Zhou You)
Source: Guang Ming Daily