As a common food in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, jujubes have been taken for granted by people living around the Yellow River, and from jujubes, what culture can we see?
Jujube, originated in China
In China, it has a history of nearly 8,000 years of cultivation.
In the long years, for the jujube tree, its experience is the change of the entire Chinese civilization.
From life to culture, it has been influencing us with itself.
The first thing we can see is "planting culture"!
In ancient times, dates were "woody grains", which were treated as both fruit and grain, and even in the eyes of the ancients, they were equivalent to rice and flour.
In the Warring States Policy, it was recorded that Su Qin once said to Yan Wenhou: "In the south there are jieshi and yanmen rao, and in the north there are jujube chestnuts, although the people are not made by the fields, the jujube chestnuts are real enough for the people, and this so-called Tianfu is also." ”
In the Book of Verses, there are already "dates peeled in August and rice harvested in October." ”
This is the best indication that dates have become a cultivated plant that is harvested regularly.
From the dates, we can see the cultivation culture of Chinese civilization.
From wild to artificial cultivation, generations of Chinese farmers have spontaneously improved the varieties of dates to make dates more suitable for us to eat.
Just like the modern Mr. Yuan Longping, silently in the field, the rice varieties have been improved again and again, so that the rice yield is getting higher and higher.
And this is the great spirit of the planting culture of Chinese civilization!
It is also the root of the planting culture that we can see from it, and it deserves the admiration and praise of all of us!
In addition to the "planting culture", we can also see the "Chinese medicine culture"
Many people will definitely ask, why is the culture of jujube attributed to the "culture of traditional Chinese medicine"?
The reason for this is that dates are sweet and delicious, and they are good products for medicinal and food uses!
In the long history of thousands of years, in addition to the edible value of jujube, there are a large number of medicinal value.
If you look for a TCM doctor, sometimes the doctor will ask to add a few jujubes to the medicine, and people with a little chinese medicine common sense know that this is a "medicine introduction".
Don't underestimate these dates, without them, the effect may be greatly reduced.
There is also a very interesting story about the medicinal value of dates:
Legend has it that Qin Shi Huang went out hunting, on the way back, passing a jujube tree, resting at the bottom, when the imperial doctor brought a bowl of "ginseng deer antler soup", Qin Shi Huang drank a small sip, felt bitter and astringent, and was preparing to lift the medicine bowl to throw it on the head of the imperial doctor. At this time, a gust of wind blew through, and a large jujube fell from the tree, and it fell impartially into the medicine bowl. Qin Shi Huang was stunned when he saw this, and thought to himself, Jujube descended from heaven, this is Providence. So I turned my anger into joy and began to take medicine. At this time, he obviously felt that the taste of the medicinal soup had changed greatly, and after drinking the medicine, he felt a warm current surging in his chest, and he had a sense of beginning to return to his old age. The imperial doctor saw it in his eyes and remembered it in his heart. From then on, every time the tonic is used, dates must be added. This party also quickly spread in the society...
"Jujube" as a medicinal use of the earliest appeared in the "Shennong Materia Medica", the book will be listed as "shangpin", has a variety of effects, in the folk even have "five grains plus a date, better than the Ganoderma lucidum grass" said!
From "health care" to "medicine and food homology", "jujube" has become a classic in chinese medicine culture.
On "jujube", we can see a lot of Chinese culture.
From folklore to planting, from planting to traditional Chinese medicine, the combination of various cultures has created a brilliant Chinese civilization.
Do you know the culture that you can see from "dates"?
Is there more to your hometown about the culture of "dates"?
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