Right now, it's the season for the ripe harvest of millet. Yang Jiade and his wife from the roadside group of Madeng Village, Zhidong Town, Yuanyi Hani Lahu Autonomous County, Pu'er City, are skillfully harvesting yellow millet, strings of grain-filled ears of grain bending the branches, swaying with the wind, quietly telling the autumn harvest.
Childhood taste - dog tail millet
"When I was a child, almost every family in our village grew millet with a dog's tail, which was steamed with corn crushed and steamed into rice or boiled into porridge, which was fragrant and soft, sweet and delicious, and my mother would make it into millet dumplings, which was one of the few snacks at that time." Touching the heavy ear of grain, Yangard said happily.
Childhood taste - dog tail millet
Locally grown dog-tailed millet is one of the varieties of waxy millet, which belongs to the grass family and millet family, and has the characteristics of short growth period, drought tolerance and barren tolerance. In the Book of Poetry, it is written: "Giant rats and rats, there is no food for me." It is about millet at that time, in the Xia Shang Zhou period, millet was at the top of the five grains at that time, and has always occupied an important position in Chinese food culture.
Childhood taste - dog tail millet
Zhidong Town has always had the habit of growing glutinous millet, but with the increase in the planting area of rice, corn, wheat and other crops and other cash crops, few people now grow millet. In order to protect local special high-quality varieties, give full play to resource advantages, and improve the dietary structure of the masses. Since 2021, Zhidong Town has concentrated on the experimental planting of upland rice purple grain, sorghum, local millet and other characteristic crops, and provided free seeds to encourage farmers to plant high-quality varieties, develop local characteristic agriculture, enrich the types of agricultural products, and increase farmers' income.
Childhood taste - dog tail millet
"When I get older, I often think of the taste of my childhood, and now few people grow our local dog's tail millet, this year our family tried to plant one, and we feel that the harvest is good, and next year we are ready to expand the scale of planting so that more people can taste our local characteristics." ”
Childhood taste - dog tail millet
At present, local rat tooth rice, dog tail millet, dwarf stalk red valley and other high-quality old varieties of crops that are easy to grow and have good taste have been effectively retained, and are deeply loved by consumers with local characteristics, laying a solid foundation for the green food and ecological food in Dongzhen.
Yunnan net correspondent Li Zhengqin Dai Ping