He joined the army at the age of fifteen and didn't come back until he was eighty. Tao met people in the village. "Who is in the village?" -"Looking at the royal family from afar, there are many pines and cypresses." Rabbits enter from the dog's sinus, pheasants fly from the beam, green valley is born in the atrium, and Lv Kui is born in the well. I don't know who will be affected when the rice is cooked. Going out and looking east, tears fell on my clothes.
Poetry is plain and true, without a passion for going in and out to grab territory, but it is sad and shocking. Words and expressions are clear as words, not carved. It really doesn't look like a work written by people more than two thousand years ago, and a teenager can fully understand it. I have never been in the army. When I came into contact with this poem, I had not been apart for a long time, but I cried for this poem more than once.
However, there is a sentence I don't understand, "pick sunflower as soup." How can kwai be soup? My hometown people only know sunflower, where we call it "sunflower". How can this thing be used as soup? With its leaves? I am familiar with the leaves of sunflowers. They are big, thick and hairy. Even if it is chopped and salted, it is still difficult to swallow after cooking.
In addition, there is also a kind of okra, with large flowers, light yellow, thin petals and leaves like chicken feet, also called chicken feet sunflower. It doesn't seem to be soup either. There is also a kind of hollyhock, also called mallow, which is called "thistle" in Inner Mongolia and Shanxi. We call it Dragon Boat Festival Flower there because it blooms around the Dragon Boat Festival. I haven't heard that Dragon Boat Festival flowers can be eaten, including their leaves, stems and flowers.
Later, I saw a sunflower in the yard of Shandong Museum in Jinan. It looks a bit like okra, with bright scarlet flowers and scary red. I don't think this sunflower can be eaten either So, what is a sunflower filled with soup?
Later, I read Wu's Textual Research on Plant Names and Forms and Textual Research on Plant Names and Forms. Wu is an admirable scholar. He is a scholar of Jiaqing, and he has been an official from imperial academy to Hunan. But he didn't just become an official. He attaches importance to the relationship between the richness of local products and people's lives. According to what he saw and heard, he sorted out the literature about plants in ancient books and wrote two masterpieces, Changbian and Tukao.
His works are very important botanical monographs in China19th century. Until now, western botanists still think his paintings are very accurate. Wu listed sunflower as the first vegetable in the Textual Research. He used a very excited tone, almost calling sunflower a winter amaranth.
But what is winter amaranth? I didn't see it until I went to Sichuan, Jiangxi, Hunan and other provinces. I once stayed in a hotel in Wuchang, and almost every meal had a bowl of soup made of green leafy vegetables. This dish is slippery to the mouth, a bit like water shield. But I know it's not a water shield, because I know it doesn't grow in Hubei, and it doesn't look like it. I asked the waiter, "What is this dish?" -"winter amaranth!"
The next day I went to an alley and saw a young woman washing vegetables by the well. I've never seen this kind of dish. The leaves are round like pig ears, the colors are green and the stems are green. I went over and asked her what she was washing-"winter amaranth!" I realized that this is winter amaranth, this is sunflower! Then, this dish is just right for soup, even for tourists. From then on, I really understood the Tenth Five-Year Plan.
Why is Wu so excited? Because when he wrote this book, almost no one knew what a sunflower was.
The fate of vegetables, like other things in the world, has ups and downs, which can also make people feel a little sad. At first, sunflower was the main vegetable in China. "Poetic Style in July": "Cooking sunflower water chestnuts in July" shows its universality. In Qi Shu Yao Min at the end of Wei Dynasty, planting sunflowers was listed as the first vegetable. "Don't pick sunflowers and hurt your roots" and "Eat sunflower seeds with dew under pine trees" often appear in poems. In the Yuan Dynasty, Wang Zhen's agricultural books also called sunflower "the owner of all kinds of vegetables".
Somehow, it became useless. It has been listed as grass in the Compendium of Materia Medica in the Ming Dynasty, and it is not recognized as a vegetable at all! Kwai's experience is really miserable! What is the reason? I think it's because Chinese cabbage is planted all over the country. Chinese cabbage replaced sunflower. Qi Baishi once put forward in his painting that "Peony is the king of flowers, litchi is the king of fruits, and cabbage is the king of vegetables. Why not? " In fact, Chinese cabbage has actually become the "king of vegetables".
Fortunately, there are winter amaranth in several southern provinces, otherwise Wu will die without telling the truth, as if the sunflower has become extinct. Wu is from Gushi, Henan. There are probably no sunflowers in his hometown, but Chinese cabbage has been planted. If he hadn't gone to Hunan as governor, he probably wouldn't know what sunflower is. Wu was excited by Kwai Ming's injustice. Its meaning is as follows: Sunflower is the king of vegetables and a very good thing; It is not extinct! It's winter amaranth! Come to the south and try this dish, and you will know!
There seems to be no sunflower in the north. However, in recent years, Beijing suddenly sold a dish that it had never seen before: auricularia auricula. You can buy one and make a soup to taste. That's the smell of sunflower. Very slippery. Auricularia auricula, whose real name is sunflower, is a kind of sunflower, but its leaves are green, Auricularia auricula is purple and its leaves are sharp and small.