It is said that in the history of China, there are almost no vegetables, such as lettuce, which have been remembered, tasted, and praised by countless literati, and although it is inconspicuous, it has become a must-try local food culture!
Lettuce is an autumn wind object that Zhang Jiying of the Jin Dynasty never forgets, in fact, spring lettuce can be picked every year in the early morning; in October, it can be picked in large quantities, called autumn lettuce.
The Biography of Zhang Han in the Book of Jin records: "Zhang Han was in Luo, because he saw the autumn wind, nai si Wu Zhongyuan vegetable soup, sea bass soup, sea bass, said: 'Life is precious and forgotten, how can you be bound for thousands of miles to be famous?' He returned home. ”
Lettuce itself has no taste, but in the roundness of the taste, delicious and tender, as one of the precious vegetables, this story is the source of the "Thoughts of The Perch", which is passed down by the world as a good story, and has become synonymous with missing the hometown.
In mid-autumn, we post autumn fat for a period of time, which is often easy to bring burdens to the stomach and intestines. Eating some lettuce at this time can help clean the intestines and lose fat, and the body and mind are comfortable, if you miss the lettuce in the spring and summer of this year, be sure to have a meeting with it when autumn comes.
Hangzhou West Lake has a long history of growing lettuce, which is recorded in the Ming Dynasty's "West Lake Tour". Legend has it that when the Qianlong Emperor of the Qing Dynasty went down to Jiangnan, every time he arrived in Hangzhou, he would eat with lettuce spoon.
The taste of lettuce is low-key, with a slight bitterness in the smoothness and crunch, which some people describe as a "tasteless taste", and the strange touch that is wonderfully felt on the tip of the tongue.
In the Food Sutra, it is said: "The dish of the soup is the first." "The best way to eat it is to make a little lettuce soup.
Li Shizhen tasted the clouds in the "Compendium of Materia Medica": "In the southern lakes of The Birth of The wu yue people like to eat it." In fact, it is not only the Wuyue people, from the emperor to the general, down to the ordinary citizens, as long as they have the opportunity to taste the lettuce of Jiangnan, they will suddenly like this "grass in the soft wave"
In the Qing Dynasty, Li Yu once boiled lettuce, mushrooms, crab yellow, and fish bones together, and named it "Simei Soup". Every time it was used to entertain friends, it was immediately robbed, and the guests also said: After eating the four beautiful soups, I feel that there is nothing to eat. Ye Shengtao once wrote an article "Lotus and Lettuce", he said that in Shanghai, lettuce is only available in restaurants.
The Qi Min Zhi Shu says that "among all the dishes, lettuce is the first". It can be seen that the medical value of lettuce is very high. Many people should know that when the weather is a little hot, we will feel upset, the mood will become very bad, for our own health and the people around us, it is a very bad thing.
In suzhou, the hometown, during the season of lettuce, the river boat is full of lettuce fished from Taihu Lake, which can be eaten almost every day. He has never loved his hometown, but "when he thinks about it, he thinks his hometown is very cute."
Freshly picked lettuce from the water is made into a soup, or eaten raw, and its tender and fat place has the flavor of fish brain crab paste, and there is more than enough in the clear and flowing place. Its taste, like will say that the fragrance of grass and trees, do not like will be disgusted with grass.
Perhaps, for each of us, no matter when and where we are in love, where is our hometown.