Is there also a seemingly inconspicuous but locally grown niche vegetable in your hometown? In Bozhou City in the north of Anhui, there is such a niche vegetable, looking at the whole country, there are few growers, but the fame is well-known overseas, exported to Japan, South Korea and many countries in Southeast Asia.
To this end, Japanese and Korean agricultural experts have personally visited the planting area, want to bring this specialty vegetable back to their respective countries for planting, but the reason why the characteristic vegetables have characteristics, leaving this soil, I am afraid it will change the taste, which is the same as the orange life Huainan is orange, the orange raw Huaibei is orange, and finally can only give up helplessly, honestly imported from China.
This niche vegetable is called gongcai, also known as dried moss, local growers call it moss, the plant is similar to lettuce, but "slim" than lettuce, the leaves are similar to oil wheat vegetables, and can also eat the taste of oil wheat vegetables, but the real value of tribute vegetables is not in its leaves, but the stems are peeled, cut into thin strips, dried in the sun, and thus made into dehydrated vegetables, which is also the origin of the name "dried moss".
Therefore, there are many "relatives" of tribute vegetables, and lettuce and oil wheat vegetables belong to the same family (Asteraceae) and the same genus (lettuce genus) different kinds of vegetables, they have a common feature, that is, they are close in appearance, especially tribute vegetables and lettuce, it is simply a pair of living "twins", which makes it difficult to distinguish between true and false, and although it is not very similar to oil wheat vegetables, it also belongs to some similarities (the similarity of oil and wheat vegetables in the late growth period is higher).
In fact, there is a common vegetable, which looks different from the tribute dish, but it also belongs to the "relatives" of the tribute dish, which is - lettuce! This is the kind of leafy vegetables that are often sandwiched in the burger.
Gong vegetables after drying and processing into dehydrated vegetables, can extend its storage period, can also be made into vacuum packaging and canned tribute vegetables and other deep processing products for sale, when eating, you can use the tribute vegetables with warm water to soak hair, cut into segments, can be used for shabu-shabu, cold mix, stir-fried meat and other delicacies to make, no matter how to do it, chewing is creaky.
This is not only the characteristics of tribute vegetables, but also the core of testing the authenticity, leaving the place of origin, the cultivation of tribute vegetables, although it can also be made into dehydrated vegetables, but there is no such crisp and crisp feeling when eating, as a whole, it belongs to the kind of relatively noodles, which is also the main reason why Japan and South Korea and other countries cannot introduce seeds, not only can not be introduced abroad, even in China, many areas can not grow the quality of the main production area.
Therefore, it is not surprising that dried moss has been rated as a "geographical indication product", at present, the main production area with "China's tribute cuisine town" is Yimen Town, Woyang County, Bozhou City, Anhui Province, but in recent years, the planting area has gradually shifted to the towns of Sandy Soil, Guantang and Dayang in Tancheng District.
According to Yang Dajie, a tribute vegetable grower in Dayanglou Village, Shatu Town, "It is said that tribute vegetables have a history of more than 2,000 years here, but the most glorious moment was when it was paid tribute as a tribute dish to the Qianlong Emperor at that time during the Qing Dynasty, which is also the origin of the name of tribute cuisine."
On the whole, tribute vegetables belong to the cold and afraid of heat crops, in the local area can be planted in the spring and autumn two stubble, each stubble economic benefit of about 4,000 yuan, because growers prefer to plant in the Chinese herbal medicine peony field, which makes our farmers' planting efficiency, and has been significantly improved. ”
It is understood that the current dried tribute vegetables, the land price of 20 yuan / jin, according to the quality of different, the price will be slightly raised, and get on the market for sale, the general price is between 35-45 yuan, affected by natural disasters in the year, the price will be higher.
Some people regret to say that such a very distinctive vegetable, it is not only a bridge for farmers to get rich, but also has an extremely broad space for market demand, so "deeply hidden" folk, it really should not be!
Perhaps, the existence value of tribute vegetables may be because of its rarity, and once it is planted throughout the country, the characteristics may no longer exist!