Arbutus wine with dried bayberry

Bayberry is the most Jiangnan style fruit, also known as dragon's eye, vermilion, a look at the name, is the fruit of Linglong.

　　In early summer, Jiangnan enters the rainy season, and the overcast and rainy weather will last for more than half a month. At that time, Jiangnan plums were ripe, so they were called "plum rain" or "yellow plum rain".

　　When the mango was planted, the arbutus on the tree was already a shameful face. By the summer solstice, the bayberry is already red and purple, and it is the standard of the season, just like the plum rain. In Gangnam, plums are usually used to indicate the arrival of the rainy season, and plums to indicate the disappearance of the rainy season.

　　Hometown is a sweet city, the summer solstice has a mountain full of baybutus, frost everywhere is golden Wendan and oranges, a large piece of a large piece, it is simply a formation on the ground. The exquisite beauty of Bayberry has always been loved by everyone, "Late at night, a mouthful of red Xia chewed, and the cool Qinhua pool was fragrant." Who pays me? Quench your thirst, and remember my family fruit the most over the years. In the eyes of the poet, Yang Mei is as beautiful as a red xia, the most memorable. Even Li Bai couldn't help but marvel - "The jade plate yangmei is set for the king, and the Wu salt is like a flower and white snow." Li Yu said it even more bluntly in "Yangmei Fu": "Southern zhenguo, the first and yangmei." Among the fruits in the south, Li Yu put the bayberry first.

　　Bayberry blossoms in mid-spring, ripens in early summer, is listed in early June, and falls in mid-July, and there are slang in the countryside: "Summer solstice bayberry is full of red mountains, and small summer bayberry will produce insects." From the first ripening of the bayberry at the time of mango planting, to the red and purple of the bayberry at the summer solstice, to the farewell of the small summer, the youth of the bayberry is only one month, in this month, the bayberry is the protagonist of the indomitable, a bamboo basket, filled with agate-like red fruits, covered with a few fresh bayberry leaves or fern leaves, there is a sense of freshness, suitable for painting and poetry. Jiangnan people love bayberry, often with the bayberry metaphor, "eat raw bayberry - sour slippery" "nostrils scraped out of the bayberry - there are numbers (trees) in the heart", as for the people who stand out in all aspects, it is "the top of the bayberry", people see people love.

　　Bayberry is delicate and delicate, harvested on the first day, changed color in two days, and changed taste in three days. Lychee can ride thousands of miles to send Yang Guifei, and Yangmei, from Jiangnan to the north, even if it is a day and night, the noble concubine Niangniang is afraid that there is no mouth blessing to enjoy, because the yangmei is a special thing, can not withstand the car and horse Lawton, thousands of miles bumps. Now, with the technology of arbutus refrigeration, it can be eaten even if it is thousands of miles away.

　　Every summer, neighbors will soak in bayberry wine, which seems to have become the standard for summer. Appetizing, cooling, detoxifying, antidiarrheal, all can count on bayberry wine.

　　Pour sorghum wine into the glass bottle, soak the bayberry, and in a few days, you can drink the bayberry wine. Soaked in bayberry wine, in Jiangnan, called bayberry roast, that is the Jiangnan people's summer wine. Bayberry wine is fierce, it is advisable to drink and fight bravely, not as gentle as green plum wine, green plum wine is slightly sweet if it is dewy, it is advisable to drink lightly.

　　In ancient times, bayberry wine had an elegant name, called mei xiang shochu, "Linyi mountain bayberry is as big as a cup and bowl, green when extremely sour, both red, sweet as cliff honey." Yangmei wine was already famous in the Jin Dynasty, "non-noble people are not allowed to drink it", it seems to be a rather precious good wine, not a noble guest at the door, it is easy not to take it out. Speaking of which, the princes and nobles of the old days were inferior to the blessings of the common people today. In summer, the bayberry wine in the hometown is often eaten with seafood such as fish, shrimp and crabs.

　　In Suzhou and Zhejiang, there are more than eighty varieties of bayberry, among which the leaders are Dongkui, Huotan, Wutan, Water Chestnut, etc., divided by color, roughly red, white, purple three, red is better than white, purple is better than red, and Dongkui is from Huangyan. Dongkui is delicious, my favorite is the Bayberry of xianju water chestnut, red and purple, color like water chestnut, thick flesh, looks full and juicy, bite, there is a feeling of bursting pulp, sweet to surging.

　　For people who can't drink alcohol, dried bayberry is a good leisure fruit, picked and dried in the sun, add rock sugar, salt and dry it after drying. Dried bayberry is not as juicy as fresh bayberry, but it is sweet and sour, and it is very appetizing. After the dried bayberry core is bitten open, the nuts are like almonds, which can also be delicious.

　　When I was a child, I took Chinese medicine, and adults always took a few pieces of dried bayberry to coax me, and the bitter mouth of Chinese medicine, a dried bayberry, immediately eliminated the bitter taste of the mouth. When watching the movie, my favorite snack is also dried bayberry, and the movie sees the tension, a piece of dried bayberry in the mouth forgot to chew, full of jin liquid.

　　My girlfriend gave me two cans of dried bayberry, which was dried by their own family," and speaking of which, their family's bayberry was spoiled and habitual, like Miss Qianjin, who was afraid of insect bites in the summer and wanted to live under a mosquito net. Arbutus trees hanging mosquito nets are very common in the hometown, and when northerners see it, they may have to laugh off their teeth and think that we southerners are casting some spells.

　　In my hometown, bayberry hangs a mosquito net, and in serious terms, it is called the cultivation technology of luo mantle bayberry. Such bayberry and dried bayberry, eating nature is reassuring. (Wang Han)