The Dragon Boat Festival is approaching, originally Zongzi is the protagonist of the festival, but for the residents of Chengjiang Street in Huangyan District, Taizhou City, Zongzi is not important, only by eating a plate of meaty "bugs", it can be called the Strict Sense of the Dragon Boat Festival!
For this strange custom outsiders to see, will be very shocked. A strip of fleshy bugs, roasted with charcoal fire, yellow chengcheng look, how many people can enter the mouth?! It is said that the local newly married new daughter-in-law, the saddest of the year is the Dragon Boat Festival. She would be forced by her in-laws to eat bugs, and few girls could bear it. Scared crying nose is probably the most common!
Introduction of foreign daughter-in-law: After becoming pregnant, she was forced to eat insects to supplement her body and was scared to cry several times
Ms. Wang is a native of Linhai and married into Huangyan Chengjiang a few years ago. She was pregnant just in time for the Dragon Boat Festival. That day, her mother-in-law came back from outside, holding a few branches she had picked up from outside, and said that she would mend her body. Only to see her mother-in-law use a knife to cut a slit in the branch, and when she broke it, the branch cracked, revealing a milky white bug with the thickness of a small thumb. At that time, she was so frightened by such a big bug that she could not speak. Then her mother-in-law pulled out a few identical white bugs from several other branches! Then he said that this was for Ms. Wang to eat and could make up for her body. When she heard this, Ms. Wang was so disgusted that she almost threw up. She naturally couldn't eat the worms that her mother-in-law had processed, and she vomited several times and shed a lot of tears. To this end, she also quarreled with her husband, but her husband said: This is a unique custom in Chengjiang, this kind of bug is more than the general tonic, the Dragon Boat Festival and several other important festivals, each family will go to make some bugs to eat. Later, Ms. Wang thought that when she entered the countryside, she should follow the customs, and her mother-in-law was also well-intentioned, so she decided to try. She also thought of some ways, got a few empty capsules, and crushed the burnt bugs into powder and wrapped them in them, and ate them as medicine. Later, I slowly got used to it, and I could barely eat a little, but I could never enjoy it like the locals did. Ms. Wang introduced that in order to accept this strange tonic, there were no tears.
Locals introduced: This is a nutritious tonic that is still reluctant to eat on weekdays
Local Huang Laobo is a native of Chengjiang, in his early 60s this year, in his impression, as long as the New Year festival, especially the Dragon Boat Festival, every household must find a way to get some bugs to eat. Huang Lao Bo said, don't think this bug is terrible, in their place, this kind of bug is rare. Because this insect is becoming more and more rare, it is generally for the elderly and children to eat, and young adults can't eat it at all. It is said that this bug is eaten by the elderly to strengthen the body; the children eat healthier.
Insect catcher introduction: a family can catch nearly a thousand insects a week Each insect can be sold for 50 yuan at the most expensive
Ms. Mou's family is in the business of catching insects. At first, they only hunted insects to replenish their own children and defeated the internal fire. However, due to the small number of local cattle thorn trees themselves, and the large number of insect catchers, it is becoming more and more difficult to find. Later, on some mountains on the border between Zhejiang and Anhui, they found a lot of yellow ox thorn trees, so they got a lot of them back, some of them ate themselves, and the extra ones were sold to their neighbors. Feeling that this was a good financial road, I started this business.
Ms. Mou said that this kind of rice fighting insects exist all year round, but their family only does the Dragon Boat Festival business. Before the Dragon Boat Festival, they went to the mountains over there to look for bugs. Under normal circumstances, a few people run once a week, and can bring back nearly a thousand bugs. The sales were very good and the basics outstripped supply. The price of bugs should also follow the market, about 30 yuan per piece when cheap, and 50 yuan per piece when expensive. Generally, families will buy 5-6 pieces to go back and save food. After all, there are fewer bugs now, and the price is expensive, not as luxurious as before.
Because of the high price, in recent years there have been fake insects with similar appearances of scammers stuffed into branches to impersonate. The rice worm has always lived in the branches of the scalper thorn tree, except when it becomes a moth, it will drill through the branches and fly out. Therefore, authentic rice fighting insects live in closed branches. When their family is selling, they will open the branches in front of the buyer to ensure the freshness of the insects.
What kind of bug is this? What is the effect of eating this bug?
This bug is called the Doumi Bug. The reason for this name, there is a saying that the nutritional value of this insect has been affirmed as early as ancient times, and the price of rice worms at that time was very expensive, and a bug should be exchanged for a bucket of rice. It also has a book called "Scalper Thornworm" because it grows in a plant called scalper thorn. It is said that doumi insect has the miracle effect of cooling detoxification, strengthening the body, and refreshing the stomach. It is also recorded in the ancient medical book "Chinese Pharmacopoeia" and "Compendium of Materia Medica" that after eating the worm, the body is strong and can treat heat rash, anesthetic inverted, and nameless swelling. There are also ancient books that record that this insect can treat malnutrition, muscle and bone pain, and children who are not breastfed at first birth.
The way to eat "rice fighting insects" is actually quite a lot. The most common is to put the bugs directly on the charcoal fire for drying, which tastes a bit like popcorn and is very crispy. There is also a few worms boiled in the soup, eating meat and drinking soup, which is also highly nutritious. Others fry the bugs and eat them in bread or pastries.
Nutritionist introduction: Rice hoppers may be rich in protein And eating a small amount of it does not have a significant effect
Director He, deputy director of Taizhou Hospital, said: It is not uncommon to eat all kinds of strange things to supplement nutrition, but it is the first time I have heard of a statement like eating rice worms to supplement my body. According to her experience analysis, just as many people take rare ingredients such as silkworm pupae or yellow mealworm to make dishes, the rice worm itself should be due to its rich protein content.
Take some of the foods we eat most often: about 15 grams of protein per 100 grams of pork; an egg can contain 8 grams of protein. As for the rice hopper, it has not been studied, and we need to know how much protein it contains after testing.
Director He also reminded that although these foods are rich in protein, they are allogeneic proteins after all, and for some people who are prone to protein allergies, it is recommended not to eat such foods at will. In addition, people with asthma, uremia, and incomplete kidney function should also be consumed under the guidance of a doctor to avoid causing illness after eating.
For the local rumor that eating bucket rice worms can play a refreshing detoxification, strengthen the body, appetize and eliminate accumulation, etc., Director He personally believes that it is unlikely, he said that the psychological effect should be greater than the actual effect. Because even if this insect really has a certain health effect, but eating it several times a year, eating three or two sticks each time, will not have any effect.