Decades ago, every year Chinese New Year's Eve the Spring Festival, if you celebrate the festival in Guangdong, you will see a food like seaweed soup in the Chinese New Year's Eve rice, which is the legendary stuffed money hair dish, which has been handed down from the Tang Dynasty, which means the four seasons of wealth, and is a good color for Chinese New Year's Eve rice. Not only in Guangdong, but also in the north, there are also delicacies made with hair vegetables, but unfortunately it is now rare.
The hair dish is not proud, it looks like a strand of hair that has been washed off, of course, the ancient people have not yet reached the point where they need to eat hair dishes to make up for hair loss. As a traditional cuisine, it is now very rare to eat hair vegetables, and eating hair vegetables may be suspected of violating the law, because now hair vegetables are already a national "first-class protected plant".
But the embarrassing thing is that hair vegetables are not plants, but a microorganism. Unfortunately, we have no precedent for protecting microorganisms, so we can only reduce it to the protection of plants. Even several endangered wild mushrooms have been included in the ranks of "fungal plants", which is actually a bit funny. For the hair dish, we need to make another wave of explanations.
The existence of hair dishes is more complicated than we think. It is not a plant, nor is it a fungus, but a type of bacteria. This organism grows mainly in barren deserts and grasslands, especially in Inner Mongolia, Gansu and Qinghai. Although the hair vegetables have tenacious vitality, they grow very slowly.
In these provinces, people often go to the wild to dig up hair vegetables to sell, resulting in great damage to wild hair vegetable resources, and even we have to list hair vegetables as a first-class protected plant. Hair cabbage is actually a "candida", a bacterium with photosynthesis that dates back to the early days of life on Earth.
It is not easy to survive until now, and it has to be collected by locals, which has brought great damage to the local ecological environment. Hair vegetables are not endangered, but they deserve to be protected, prohibiting people from demanding too much from nature. The taste of hair vegetables is actually not much more delicious than seaweed, what do you think?