"Watching the rain" hair dish and kelp are the same dish ~ those interesting things in those years (4)

Those interesting things in those years (4)

Hair vegetables and kelp are the same dish

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The thousand stems are not white, and they are ashamed to treat the green silk as wild sparse.

How much sorrow has not been obtained, and the wisps of clouds are so good.

This poem is selected from the Qing "Qianlong Zhongwei County Chronicle", the original poem title is "Hair Dish", the author Fan Hao, a native of hangzhou, a Zhongwei person, who participated in the compilation of the "Zhongwei County Chronicle", he borrowed the hair dish to express his lament that the years have been lost, his poverty is downcast, and his mood is even more sad.

Fa Cai is one of the famous five treasures in Ningxia, the main production areas in Ningxia Tongxin, Yanchi, Lingwu, Zhongning and other places. It used to be a delicacy at high-end banquets. I have encountered several times at wedding banquets in previous years, but the most frequent occurrences of hair dishes are not at high-end wedding banquets, but at wedding banquets run by families during the Cultural Revolution.

In the middle of the Cultural Revolution, people born before and after the founding of the People's Republic of China entered the marriage period, and more and more wedding invitations made parents tired of coping, except for relatives who could not go to their closest relatives, the general wedding banquet was for me to socialize. Later, I was tired of going to the east and west like an old man to eat a table and did not want to go, and my mother scolded me, saying that adults have to work very busy, and I should do these things for the wedding banquet, so I became a "foodie" who continued to eat on behalf of my family.

We have always been halal in our han wedding feasts, which are not divided into Hui, because in the long life, the Hui and Han people, who account for one-third of the population, intermarry with each other and live together. Our relatives, neighbors, friends, and colleagues all have Hui, and the Hui and Han masses have formed a relationship of lips and teeth on each other, and the folk have had the saying that the Hui people are "Hui fathers and Mothers" since ancient times.

Going to the restaurant to hold a wedding banquet is after people's living standards have improved after the 80s, and before that, wedding banquets were held at home. In the era of food scarcity, it is not easy to organize a wedding banquet, and it is necessary to try to prepare ingredients many days in advance. The kitchen is set up in the yard with a tent, and there are 5, 6, 7 or 8 tables for the banquet, placed in their own homes and neighbors' homes. Book a chef, a day or two in advance, ask a few relatives and friends to help, by the night before, the meat that should be washed and cut and cooked has been prepared under the guidance of the chef.

Because the meat is limited, work vegetables, the amount of vegetables used is large and varied, even potatoes, carrots, and green radishes can be used in many dishes, such as pulling potatoes, cold mixing with carrots, stewed lamb with green radish, meatballs, splints with a small amount of meat added to a large number of potato radish made. There are also vermicelli, tofu, and bean sprouts. Dried vegetables are also very important, yellow flowers, fungus, kelp, and some even hair vegetables. This expensive hair dish and the cheapest potatoes, radish, kelp, etc. are placed on the table together, and people think that eating hair vegetables is like eating kelp, it is the same dish. At that time, there was no large number of export sales in the local area, and it was a very common dish. In its place of origin, people use it to make dumplings or eat it as a vegetable, when the wedding banquet gift is 2 yuan, and if the dish is very expensive, people will not choose it.

Dried hair vegetables are slender filaments, unhynched hair dishes are black, and the color of the soaked hair vegetables is dark green, and the shape resembles human hair.

The dish itself has no taste, and it all depends on the chef's preparation. The best hair dish I've ever eaten was at a Hui neighbor's wedding feast, and the cold hair dish was so delicious.

The Hui wedding banquet is the most exquisite and delicious, because the Hui have a tradition of catering and business, the Hui chefs are superb in cooking, and the Hui housewives have a good hand in making oil. The wedding feast will be accompanied by a plate of fragrant oil: steamed buns and oil cakes. This is a food that everyone loves to eat. Han People like to eat Hui oil incense, and on weekdays, whenever there is a Hui religious festival, they always receive oil aroma from neighbors. My Hui neighbors have been sending us oil incense for many years, and even during the Cultural Revolution, flour was very small, and the neighbor's grandmother had to fry some oil incense, and came knocking on the door with trembling, and sent two small oil cakes.

Hair vegetables are a famous local specialty in Ningxia, and it is said that they were exported abroad during the Tang and Song dynasties. In the 1980s, the vegetables were exported in large quantities and the price was extremely high. Hair dishes are no longer used at wedding banquets. A large number of vegetables were dug up, resulting in desertification of grasslands, and the state banned the collection and sale of vegetables in 2000. But someone always wants to eat it, so the hair dish is sold on the black market. Tempted by the high price of hair dishes, there are outlaws who make wig dishes. I saw an article saying that the ingredient for fake hair dishes is kelp. The wig eater unexpectedly ate the expensive hair dish in his mouth is kelp, and it is kelp that is soaked with some mess of chemical pigments, and such an "artificial hair dish" is really "kelp and hair dish are the same dish". That is, the eater eats the real hair dish, the result is worse than eating wig vegetables, the plate of hair vegetables that the eater eats is at the cost of desertification on the desert grassland or low hilly area of the natural ecology, this land that has maintained vegetation for thousands of years, suddenly after the picker's stampede and digging has become a desert, and it is difficult to restore it to a grassland. To cause such a disaster to the earth, or let go of the hair dish, let go of the earth, and stop eating. "How much sorrow has not been obtained, and the wisps of clouds are so good."

Humans have been eating hair vegetables for at least two thousand years, "it is extremely nutritious, the protein content is higher than meat, milk and poultry eggs, and it contains a variety of vitamins, which is a top dish." It has medicinal value, help digestion, degreasing, cleansing the stomach, and auxiliary treatment of hypertension, gynecological diseases, etc., patients who have undergone surgery, if you eat hair vegetables, you can also accelerate the healing of wounds. "Such a precious and rare plant, we should cherish it, do not destroy the natural environment, so that it can survive and reproduce."

A few years ago, I saw a news on TV that agricultural scientists were experimenting with artificial cultivation of hair vegetables, and if the future hair vegetables could be planted on a large scale like artificial cultivation of licorice and mushrooms, how good it would be, so that the world-famous hair vegetables could return to people's tables.