Foreword: It is called "Hair Vegetable", which has been excavated in large quantities because of the harmonic sound "Fat Cai", and has now become a first-class protected plant
"Wishing you prosperity" was not originally a song to celebrate the New Year.
In the south, there was once a wild vegetable that was also very popular, which resembled a hair strand and was named "hair vegetable".
Also because of the harmonic sound "Fortune", it was once an extremely precious ingredient in Southern Provinces such as Guangdong and Hong Kong, and it tasted quite delicious.
However, because the price has been rising, it has been excavated a lot, and now it has been banned from mining and sales by the state, and it has become a national key protected plant as early as a few years ago.
However, people who know it are very clear that the hair vegetable is not a plant at all, nor is it endangered, there are many in the wild, why is it included in the list of key protected plants, and it is also the highest level of protection at the first level?
Let's take a look at the "dishes" that have made countless people crazy!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="43" > past and present lives of hair dishes</h1>
Friends in the north may be very unfamiliar with this kind of unpopular wild vegetables, and even show an unbelievable attitude: Can such wild vegetables be eaten?
Hair vegetables are distributed in many places in China, but the real popularity of it is mainly in the southern region, especially in the Guangdong region, once the love of hair vegetables reached the point of "obsession".
Hair vegetable is a folk name for it, also called hair vegetables, dragon's whiskers, hair algae and so on. Its scientific name is candida, which is an algae of the order Cyanobacteria.
Yes, this wild vegetable is the same family as the well-known wild vegetables such as ground fungus and gexian rice, but the color of the hair dish is black, and the slender hair resembles human hair, so it is named "hair dish".
The distribution of this wild vegetable is also very special, mainly widely distributed in high-altitude deserts and barren soils. The history of eating hair vegetables in China is very long, and it has been eaten as early as the Han Dynasty.
It is said that one hundred years ago, when Su Wu was herding sheep, he filled his hunger with hair vegetables. Historically, fa cai has also had many highlight moments, and since the Han Dynasty, the magnates have dedicated fa cai as a tribute to the emperor.
By the time of the Tang Dynasty, it had also become an important export material. During the Qing Dynasty, Empress Dowager Cixi was also an iron fan of hair dishes, and every day there was a "mixed hair dish" on its menu.
In modern times, hair dishes are also loved by people in Guangdong, Hong Kong and other places because of their harmonic sound with "Fortune", coupled with good taste and high nutritional value. This led to its price rising, and the most expensive time sold to the price of five or six hundred yuan per kilogram.
Like at that time, many Guangdong people held a banquet at home, or every New Year's Festival, hair dishes are an indispensable dish, even if the price is expensive, many people still have to buy.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="44" > the edible value of hair vegetables</h1>
Although the hair dish looks inconspicuous and even makes people feel a little "scalp numb", it is a very rare ingredient, known as the "Treasure of the Gobi".
Hair vegetables are rich in nutrients, which are not only high in protein, but also rich in minerals and trace elements such as calcium, iron, magnesium, and iodine.
And the edible methods of hair vegetables are diverse, it can be simply boiled and then eaten coldly, but also can be used to stir-fry, steam, stew, etc., can be cooked into a variety of dishes, no matter which method to eat is very good.
The point is that it is also very nourishing, with high edible and medicinal value. For example, the iron content of hair vegetables is high, and it can play a good role in tonifying blood by using it to cook soup and drink.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" Data-track="45" > is widely distributed in the wild, why has it become a protected plant</h1>
Since it is a blue-green fungus of the candida family Candidae, that is to say, it is actually a bacterium, not a plant at all, and even has a large distribution in the wild, why has it become a first-class protected plant?
When it comes to the difference between bacteria and plants, it is generally possible to perform photosynthesis on its own to be considered a plant. However, the hair dish does not have the corresponding organelle for photosynthesis, in short, it does not contain chloroplasts in the body.
However, hair vegetables are formed by most single-celled individuals strung together and buried in gelatinous substances.
In its body, it contains green vegetative cells, which can also help hair vegetables to play a similar effect to photosynthesis. It is also because of this that the growth of hair vegetables is extremely slow, it is grown in the way of cell division, often only 6% a year.
In recent years, due to the name and "fortune" of the dish, it has become rapidly popular in the Guangdong area and has become a very popular local dish, so many people go to the wild to dig it.
In particular, its price continues to rise, causing more people to go to the wild to dig up hair vegetables. However, although there are many wild releases of this wild vegetable, it is very troublesome to dig up, which has caused damage to the land.
Because the hair vegetables grow close to the ground, when digging, they will destroy all the plants on the surface of the grassland. At the same time, the hair vegetable itself has a good effect on protecting soil vegetation, improving soil quality and reducing soil erosion in the growing environment.
When it is excavated, it poses a serious threat to the entire ecology. There are statistics that on average, for an average of 2 pairs of vegetables mined, 16 grasslands the size of football fields will be destroyed.
Moreover, a large number of diggers are active on the grassland, they cook on the spot, heat, uproot plants, burn, etc., will cause damage to the grassland that is difficult to recover in the short term.
It is precisely because the mining of hair vegetables will pose such a great threat to the grassland, and the hair vegetables in the wild at that time are relatively rare, in order to avoid further mining, thus causing damage to the ecological environment of the grassland.
In addition, in Our country for the protection of the object, only the protection of animals and plants, not for the protection of fungi, not to mention the hair dish also has some similar characteristics to plants.
Therefore, based on the consideration of ecological environmental protection, it was included in the protected plants and was included in the national level I key protection.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="41" > concluding remarks</h1>
Therefore, although the hair vegetable is currently distributed in the wild, and it is not a plant, it has become a key protected plant, in fact, mainly to protect the environment on which we live.
Although hair vegetables are not plants, they play a very important role in ecological environmental protection. However, although the hair vegetable is now a protected plant, but we have already artificially farmed the hair vegetable, there are many hair vegetables sold on the market, but they are only planted.
After all, the market demand for hair vegetables is large, and many people like its "name" in order to figure out a good meaning. Friends, have you ever eaten hair dishes?