Bai Wei/Wen (Headline Signing Article)
When you think of mulberry leaves, you will naturally think of silkworms.
Mulberry leaves are the food of silkworm babies, and it is by relying on this daily food that silkworms spit out beautiful and moving cocoons, thus creating the great Silk Road of ancient China.
Mulberry and silkworm are the oldest cultural existences of the Chinese ancestors, reflecting the labor wisdom of the ancient ancestors. It is said that as early as the Oracle bone era, there have been written records of mulberry and silkworms.
However, in the history of Chinese cuisine for thousands of years, there has been no record of eating mulberry leaves, and the ancients used mulberry leaves as a medicinal herb.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that mulberry leaves have a bitter, sweet and cold taste, and have the effect of dissipating wind and removing heat, clearing the liver and eyes.
In the "Shennong Materia Medica" of the Han Dynasty of China, mulberry leaves are called "immortal herbs", which have the effects of blood replenishment, wind drainage, heat dissipation, liver ventilation, and antihypertensive diuresis; it can be seen that ancient medical scientists have recognized that mulberry leaves are good medicines for removing heat and relieving sweat.
According to the "Compendium of Materia Medica", it is clearly recorded: "Decoction instead of tea can quench thirst."
According to Zhu Danxi in the Yuan Dynasty in the "Danxi Heart Law", "After the frost mulberry leaf research, rice is drunk and served, and night sweats are stopped." ”
Fu Qing, a famous doctor in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, was especially good at using mulberry leaves to stop sweating, and he successively formulated several parties such as "anti-sweat divine dan", "anti-sweat pills", "anti-sweating and fixing the god dan", all of which used mulberry leaves as the main medicine, and praised mulberry leaves as "wonderful products for collecting sweat".
Eating mulberry leaves is something that has happened in recent years.
In 1981, the Ministry of Health announced the list of mulberry leaves that can be used for health foods in the second batch (91) of the 85th edition of the medicinal and food homology document (91), which began to attract everyone's attention, and for the first time let everyone know that mulberry leaves are edible.
On March 6, 2002, a perfect mulberry leaf officially became the list of medicinal and food homologous articles that can be used for health food items by the Ministry of Health, which once again aroused people's understanding of the knowledge that mulberry leaves can be eaten, and during the SARS period in 2003, mulberry leaves can continue to receive everyone's attention as a medicinal material.
2 In the past two years, mulberry sprouts have become a common dish in most areas, and it is popular in the Chinese mainland market with its rich nutritional value and green and natural characteristics.
To say mulberry leaf vegetables, the country's far leading is of course the hometown of silk: Zhejiang.
Zhejiang catering industry first to develop a mulberry leaf theme banquet, and the mulberry leaf theme banquet of Golden Phoenix Farm in Kaihua County, Quzhou, Zhejiang Is undoubtedly an excellent representative of this theme banquet.
I'll just show you the dishes:
The first course: cold mix mulberry leaves
The second way: mulberry leaf roll
The third way: mulberry leaf pills
Fifth course: mulberry leaf pancakes
Sixth way: mulberry leaf cooking powder, in fact, is steamed mulberry leaves
From cold dishes to staple foods, everything is available, and after eating the mulberry leaf theme feast, and then a cup of mulberry leaf tea, it is even more perfect.
As a standard eater, if you can't eat a mulberry leaf theme feast, it is a pity for foodies.
If you want to eat, go to Zhejiang, there is no other way.