Ginger leaves stand tall like bamboo branches,
Solve the table and show your hand,
Thick skin meat is old and spicy,
Cut into chunks and pat loose to taste.
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There are many different versions of the legend of Ginger, the most widely spread in Chinese folklore is the story about Shennong's tasting of hundreds of herbs, the general storyline of the legend is as follows: Shennong's eating herbs on the top of the South Mountain, in order to identify its medicinal properties and pharmacology, want to better cure the disease and save people, in a process of collecting medicine, accidentally ate a poisonous plant, when the stomach hurt like a knife cut uncomfortable, and finally fainted in pain under a large tree. After a long time, when Shen Nongshi slowly woke up, he found that the place where he was lying down had a cluster of green pointed leaves of herbs, which emitted a strong fragrance, and Shennongshi approached his nose to smell it, and suddenly his dizziness was much lighter, and his chest was not as suffocating as before. Therefore, Shennong clan conveniently pulled up a plant of this grass, picked out the roots, put it to the mouth and chewed it, only to feel that after the entrance of this thing, its taste was spicy, and after the spicy, the cool feeling was suddenly born. Not long after eating the root block, Shennong's stomach grunted, and after releasing the poison that had been eaten by mistake before, Shennong's illness was completely cured, and his body felt very comfortable.
Because Shennong's original surname is "Ginger", so he named this sharp leaf grass "Ginger", which means that it can bring itself back to life, and its role is very magical.
Since then, ginger has always been a common condiment for people when cooking food, and it is also one of the essential herbs in Chinese medicine pharmacies. Medicine and food are of the same origin, all because of this.
In the past, the "ginger" of ginger was not written as "ginger", but as "畺". It is mainly planted on ridges on both sides of the field. In the ancient period of our country, ancient humans lacked cold clothing, and the cold weather invaded the body. Food is also quite scarce, and it is common to endure hunger. At that time, many diseases were mainly invaded by wind and cold, mixed with malnutrition. "Shengqi" naturally became the best cold protection and life-saving product of the farming tribe, and it was simply a panacea for the treatment of all diseases at that time. The nomadic tribes themselves do not grow field crops, so they often run over to rob the farming tribes of grain and "raw", so the ancestors collectively organized, took up bows and arrows and knives and guns, and resisted illegal looters in the field, "Qi" thus developed into "Xinjiang", until later, extending to "guard the frontier" and other words associated with this.
The left side of the word "Xinjiang" is "bow" and "earth", and on the right is "畺", which means to protect the land with a "bow" and the things produced on the land ("raw qi"). From "Qi" to "Xinjiang" is a history of social development and changes, and the purpose of the competition between the two sides at that time was to "Tian Duo" and "Qi Duo".
Ginger is a perennial herb. Its flowers are yellow-green, its rhizomes are edible to humans, and its rhizomes have a strong pungent fragrance smell. The rhizome is thick and has many branches and forks, and by breaking the rhizome by hand, you can smell the aromatic smell and the pungent taste of the nose. Ginger is cultivated in most parts of China, especially in the central region and the southeast coastal area, and is widely cultivated and planted by locals.
The rhizomes of ginger can be used as medicinal herbs, and the fresh or dried products of the rhizomes can be used as condiments to enhance the flavor of food, or made into pickled food products for human consumption.