Recently in Beijing, in addition to cherry blossoms, magnolias and peach blossoms have bloomed, in fact, there is a kind of poplar "flower" that we Beijingers are particularly familiar with, which also marks the "landing" of our Spring in Beijing! Chatted with everyone, talked about the "flowers" of poplar trees!
(Picture from old Beijing Tieba )
When asked, most people say that Beijing people call it "caterpillar" when they play small, some people call it "poplar dog" and some people call it "Wang Wang Dog" and "Poplar Stone" and some people call it "Can Be Able" Okay... Anything else? Yes!" Poplar Trees", "Poplar Hangings", "Tribulus Dogs" This is even more powerful!!
I want to ask anyone who will claim these names above, I call it "caterpillar" because it looks like a caterpillar, and it does not have much color. As soon as the wind blew, it "pounced" and fell to the ground. How many people were scared and cried by this thing when they were young, and now they are talking,
After watching the forum, I found that the friend named "Poplar Dog" came from the side of the Lugou Bridge, "Poplar Tree" was said by a friend in Xicheng, and the friend of "Poplar HangingEr" Pinggu "claimed" the friend of Tongzhou called this "Poplar Tree Ride" which makes people absolutely believe that we have different sounds in Beijing City
The most cute thing is "can be able to", where is it called, but this poplar flower, really "can eat"! It is said that the poplar tree can not eat, the poplar tree hanging down to pinch the tip, wash the boiling water a hot cold water a pull, and fried sauce bun buns! Great! Must be picked up, not when you are old
(Picture from Tieba: Playing children is benevolent)
It looks delicious! Of course, I thought that this can be fed to the rabbit and the remaining function is to put it in the neck of the girl, and later, I heard that some people used this stuff to boil water and drink to prevent the flu when they were young. This is really not unfounded:
Poplar flower, the name of chinese medicine. It is a male inflorescence poplar of the family Populus tomentosa Carr, Popluus canadensis Moench of Canada or several species of plants of the same genus distributed in Liaoning, Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Henan and other places. In addition to Guangdong, Hainan, Yunnan and Tibet, there are introduced species in Various places in Canada. It has the effect of clearing heat, detoxifying, dampness and diarrhea. Commonly used for bacterial dysentery, enteritis.
In fact, think about it, we Beijingers really love to eat some "fresh"
Yu Qian'er
Locust flowers
Willow buds
These folk "local ingredients" are actually very delicious from cherry financial freedom to toon financial freedom... To be honest, at present, toon is no longer a "earthy taste" and has risen to a certain level that cannot be eaten... In fact, no matter what you call them, it doesn't matter, but we have this passage in our memories to a greater or lesser extent: "When I was a child, there was a poplar tree and two toon trees in the yard, and the poplar tree would drop caterpillar-like spikes." We call it "caterpillar" and the tender leaves of the toon tree, the stall eggs are the most delicious!
Although we may not have loved to eat when we were young, but now every time it comes to spring, we think of these three trees...