In China's traditional food culture, onion as a commonly used seasoning seasoning, is indispensable in every household, so in many folk places there is a proverb: "Green onion dipped in sweet sauce, the more you eat the stronger." ", now some of the traditional culture of our country to retain the integrity of the area, but also popular every year when the age of "eating onions smart" food culture customs, it is said that people in the late summer of each year, the night of june 10 of the lunar calendar, each family each take their own vegetable garden fresh green onions, remove its green leaves, intercept its green onions, give children food, the name of eating children can become "smart".
In ancient China, there are many legends about green onions, and one of the legends is like this: It is said that green onions are the Shennong clan in ancient times, seeing that people are in great pain after illness, but there is no medicine to cure people's pain, so they use their own bodies to taste the medicinal properties of hundreds of herbs, and want to distinguish good medicines for everyone to eliminate disasters and diseases. One day, Shennong found a good medicine, this herb tastes strong, after eating a long aftertaste, and then this herb is used as a condiment for people's daily diet. Because it is often used in daily meals, various dishes must be added to the onion to blend the taste of the ingredients, so the green onion has the elegant name of "Washi grass".
According to the "Materia Medica", "There are several kinds of green onions, which are used for medicinal purposes and frozen shallots for food." ”
Legend has it that in ancient times, Zhu Xi, a Dali scholar of the Song Dynasty in China, one day when he was idle, he went to his son-in-law's house to sit and talk, and when it was time for dinner, the son-in-law and daughter entertained Zhu Xi's meal, which was only a pot of onion soup and half a pot of wheat rice, and his son-in-law repeatedly expressed his deep apologies to his father-in-law and felt deeply guilty for not entertaining Zhu Xi.
Zhu Xi knew that his son-in-law's family had always been poor, so he didn't care.
After eating,
Zhu Xi wrote a poem to explain his son-in-law's mood, and his poem is as follows: "Onion soup and wheat rice are suitable for both, onion supplement dantian wheat to cure hunger, it is not said that the taste is thin, and there is still no cooking time in the former village." ”
The poetry of this poem is easy to understand, and the last two sentences of its verse are repeatedly chewed, "Mo Dao's taste is thin here, and there is still no cooking time in the former village", which really has the charm of teaching people to be "content and happy" in the world.
Zhu Xi is the greatest thinker who appeared in the history of our country after Confucius. Zhu Xi's compilation of the "Four Books, Chapters and Sentences" simplified the complex and influenced China in the nearly eight hundred years after the Song Dynasty.
Zhu Xi had paid it back at that time, although the high-ranking officials did it and Houlu took it, But Zhu Xi still insisted on living hard and simple like the sages such as Yan Hui and Tao Yuanming in ancient times, never extravagant in life, never extravagant and wasteful in expenses, and really had the legacy of the ancient gentleman. Zhu Xi's actions in all this were also enough to make many arrogant and lascivious people at that time, and the paper drunk gold fans feel ashamed.
"Onion soup and wheat rice are suitable for both, and onion supplement Dantian wheat to cure hunger." Mo Dao's taste is thin, and the former village is still uncooked. ”
This verse is very reasonable, the true taste of the world is the taste of light and fresh, the true heart of the world is indifferent to the heart of fame and fortune, and people are content and then have constant happiness.
Throughout the history of the former virtuous country and home, it has been broken by thrift and thrift.
The story of Zhu Xi's "onion soup and wheat rice", the poem he wrote, and the simple virtues of thrift and thrift he pursued are always worth learning and inheriting from each of us who come after us.