"The fall of the drinking Mulan, the fall of the Autumn Chrysanthemums of the Sunset Meal", is a verse in Qu Yuan's "Leaving the Troubles", which was cleverly quoted by Chairman Mao Zedong, a great man of the generation, to add chrysanthemums to daily dishes.
One night in 1949, Chairman Mao Zedong's health doctor, Wang Hebin, was summoned to Ziyunxuan in Zhongnanhai and asked to accompany Chairman Mao to dinner. Wang Hebin walked into the restaurant to see that there was a hot pot in the middle of the table, and among the vegetables next to the hot pot, there was a dish of white chrysanthemum petals, which was particularly eye-catching. Why does this chrysanthemum bloom on the table? Wang Hebin felt very curious: can chrysanthemum petals also be eaten?
At this moment, Chairman Mao walked in, saw Wang Hebin staring at the chrysanthemum petals on the plate with questioning eyes, and said to him with humor: "Dr. Wang, eat and see, we don't appreciate the flowers, let's eat the flowers!" ”
I don't know if I eat, but it's wonderful to eat. Wang Hebin used chopsticks to pick up the chrysanthemum petals and dip them in the tumbling hot pot soup, and the flowers immediately softened, and the soup was fresh and fragrant. After the entrance, although there was a slight hint of medicinal taste, it could not resist the temptation of the fragrance and tenderness, and it felt very good, so I habitually nodded.
Chairman Mao smiled and said, "Dr. Wang, how's it going?" You alright! Our ancestors knew a long time ago that they ate chrysanthemums." After saying that, he also picked up the chrysanthemum petals, reached for the hot pot, and then put them in his mouth to taste carefully...
Wang Hebin nodded again. Chairman Mao then said to him: Do you know Qu Yuan, he has a verse that reads," "Falling towards the fall of Mulan, Falling to the Fall of autumn chrysanthemums at sunset," indicating that more than 2,000 years ago, our ancestors had the eating habit of eating chrysanthemums and flowers. It seems that eating chrysanthemums at that time was an act of poverty. Let's also take a poverty-alleviation move, let's also have a "sunset meal Autumn Chrysanthemum Fall Ying". However, these chrysanthemums were deliberately picked by the comrades of the workers from the cultivated chrysanthemums.
As soon as the words fell, he picked up the chrysanthemum petals again and stretched out to the hot pot...
Empress Dowager Cixi of the Qing Dynasty was also very fond of chrysanthemums. According to the Qing Palace medical case, for all kinds of flowers that are blooming, Cixi always eats them as they go. There is a kind of white chrysanthemum called "snowball", the petals are short and fine, white as snow as jade, the Western Empress will pick the petals casually, let the eunuch soak in warm water to rinse, take out after more than ten minutes, and then put into the thin alum warm water to rinse it, fish up, drain, put in chicken soup or other broth hot pot to eat, very delicious.
The "Secret Record of Materia Medica" said: "Chrysanthemums are divided into wild species and domestic species, in fact, they are all born of the elite of the golden water." However, the family plant is better, and the supplement is more than the diarrhea; the wild chrysanthemum tastes bitter, and the diarrhea is more than the supplement. "Mu Shu Gossip" Yun: "True chrysanthemum trilling, wild chrysanthemum fire." "It can be seen that chrysanthemums have a tonic effect in addition to loosening wind and diarrhea, clearing the liver and eyes, detoxifying and reducing swelling, and eating chrysanthemum hot pot can be described as counting in one fell swoop."
Preparation method
Fresh soup (chicken soup, broth, etc.), chrysanthemums, condiments are available in an appropriate amount. Wash the chrysanthemums. Bring the soup to a boil, add cooking wine, green onion, ginger, salt, chicken essence and other seasonings, after boiling, under the chrysanthemum, a little cooking can be taken.
Chrysanthemums, wild chrysanthemums boiled porridge, or brew tea can be drunk; generally evacuate the wind and heat more use yellow chrysanthemums, clear liver, flat liver more use white chrysanthemums, heat and detoxification more use wild chrysanthemums. This product is suitable for liver depression constitution, yin deficiency constitution, humid and hot constitution.