In fact, a long time ago, wild vegetables had entered the literary palace of poetry, became the protagonist, and sang under the pen of the ancients. Tracing back to the Book of Songs, someone made a rough statistics. Among the 305 articles in The Book of Songs, there are 43 kinds and 25 kinds of edible wild vegetables. In many poems and songs that followed, ordinary wild vegetables actually bloomed with extraordinary spirituality and wild interest.
First of all, The Book of Songs is a slave society with extremely low productivity. People work hard every day and interact with nature. People in trouble have to rely on a lot of wild vegetables to satisfy their hunger. Therefore, wild vegetables are closely related to people's lives and become an indispensable part. Poems created by the people naturally contain descriptions of wild vegetables when expressing life, labor and love.
Guan Ju, the first article in the Book of Songs, sings: "Uneven leeks flow from left to right, and my fair lady asks for it." One of them is an edible aquatic plant, which floats on the water and has yellow flowers; In Gu Feng, there is a poem about professional women being abandoned by their husbands. "Sweet as shepherd's purse" means: people say bitter vegetables are bitter, but compared with the pain in my heart, they are as sweet as shepherd's purse. "Bitter vegetables are three or two, which can not only fill the stomach, but also strengthen the yang. It can not only clear away heat and dry dampness, reduce swelling, remove blood stasis and detoxify, but also cool blood and stop bleeding. Shepherd's purse Shepherd's purse is a kind of wild vegetable deeply loved by ordinary people. Its common name is also called local cuisine and Qing cuisine. It is not only sweet.
And the color is light green, and the lyricist Xin Qiji has the chanting of "Peach and plum are full of worries, and spring is at the head of the stream"; There is also such a sentence in the poem "Bai Yi": "Pick and choose Bai Yi, and pick fine words. Collection collection, there are thin words. " The poem means: "What fresh dishes! Come and pick it! Whoever picks it gets it. " Express love by collecting wild vegetables; The text is like a poem in "Picking Ge": "If he picks Ge, he won't see it for a day, such as March, and if he picks a small one, he won't see it for a day, such as Xi." Pueraria lobata can be made, and the little finger is a kind of Artemisia, both of which are wild vegetables, especially Artemisia. It is not only a delicious wild vegetable, but also a medicinal material. It is mostly born in fields and ditches. On the occasion of Qingming, it was the time when Artemisia branches were flourishing, and people who went to the grave to worship were in an endless stream. By the way, mugwort is collected to cure diseases or alleviate hunger. There are many kinds of Artemisia, and there is "yo" in the Book of Songs. Midges refer to aquatic Artemisia, and Artemisia in Compendium of Materia Medica is Artemisia selengensis.
In addition, the poem also mentions many wild vegetables, such as Osmunda japonica Thunb. ), plantain seed (coix lachryma. ), Artemisia capillaris. (shepherd's purse. ), bitter vegetables (tea), etc. So far, it is a delicious food on people's table. However, when wild vegetables are transferred from the stomach to the heart, the roots of gratitude are there, and pieces of vegetables are turned into sincere poems, which increases the weight of history and culture. Su Dongpo, a great poet in the Song Dynasty, wrote in the Night Scene of the Spring River in Hui Chong: "There are three peaches outside the bamboo, the duck prophet warms the spring river, and the reed buds on the ground are short, which is the time when the puffer fish wants to go up." The poet's vivid poems with peach blossoms, spring water for heating, ducks paddling in the water and wild vegetables growing everywhere show the natural scene of returning to the earth in three spring and everything reviving, and also depict a vibrant picture of picking wild vegetables. Wild vegetables have been with us for thousands of years. In every ordinary day, they belong to wild flowers and idle grass, which are the embellishment of life. The folk song also said, "On March 3, the local food contest is a panacea." These poems record the joy of spring, but when we encounter difficulties in life, eating with them becomes bitter, and wild vegetables become the straw for the poor to survive and the savior to look forward to. Fragrant peaches and plums, enchanting peony, in the case of extreme material shortage, have become worthless and eclipsed. Therefore, scholars of all ages have left poems praising wild vegetables, and there are also a considerable number of poems and folk proverbs. For example, in the Song Dynasty, Jiang Kui described "the spring breeze is ten miles, the wheat is green" in "Yangzhou Slow", and Mr. Dongpo even felt emotion when tasting wild vegetables. "It's better to look for wild vegetables around the wheat field than to cook yam soup for the monks." The folk proverb "Artemisia in March, Artemisia in April, firewood in May and June" clearly points out the modernity of wild vegetables. The wild leek in early spring is crisp and full of game, which is comparable to that in non-domestic greenhouses. It is the top grade for people to taste spring. Du Fu, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, once left a quatrain: "Spring leeks are cut in the rain at night, and brown rice is freshly cooked." The folk language also said that "new leeks in March are better than meat." People like wild vegetables because they can be eaten. More importantly, many wild vegetables are medicinal materials, which can achieve the dietotherapy and health care function of "medicine and food are homologous". Therefore, there is a saying that "wild vegetables are fragrant and return to nature". Lu You, a poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, first knew this. In his poem "Miscellaneous Feeling", he thinks that "cooking mountain vegetables in the morning is beautiful, and washing stone springs in the afternoon is clean, which is a matter of seven hearts." In Ten Rhymes of Food, it is even more delicious. Thank God, Qingqing was named Ling Gang, Zhenmei Yan Ping Salt Cheese and Gengjieling Cream. Yes, what we modern people can appreciate is to find the true taste in the plain, to experience the unity of man and nature, and to bloom the brilliance of life in poetry. When we are holding a poem scroll in our hand and reciting "When picking potherb roots to cook and spinning firewood to burn leaves", what kind of melancholy and regret will arise in our hearts.
With a handy hand, they can be found everywhere in Changsha, a famous cultural city. With different life feelings, I sang all kinds of things.
Lu Guimeng praised the Tang Dynasty: "You can find it in the smoke in the wild garden, but the fragrance of tender nail leads to gradual progress? . ..... If you want to help with spring sex, you might as well be as smart as home. " . Pi Rixiu's "Plowing Wild Vegetables to Appreciate Wang Luxian's Evil Thoughts": "At first glance, the cow's lip fluid, the mouse's ear, the purple nail is picked from the spring pulse, and the green tooth is inserted from Shi Gen." Su Dongpo wrote in the Song Dynasty: "Rattan roots grow leaves, leek buds wear soil fists like ferns, rotten steamed white fish fat, and broken Artemisia annua cool cakes are slippery." Reading this, I can't help but sigh. For thousands of years, wild vegetables have grown in fields and ditches, leaving them to fend for themselves without human fertilization. Perhaps in the eyes of dignitaries, they are still wild and humble, and they are cast aside in their "noble" disdain. Since ancient times, there are still so many literati who care about it, and there are so many poems hanging on its leaves. It was boating on the river of the Book of Songs. In that elegant era, there were my fair lady picking jagged leeks, and the fragrance of cress and love floated on the river with the wind. In Dongpo's arduous journey, he was accompanied by not only piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, but also the endless, small and tenacious wild vegetables, which made him appreciate the happiness of the world in the ups and downs of life.
Civilized modern human beings, in March when the grass grows and the warblers fly, please walk out of the narrow tall buildings, cross the busy roads, abandon worldly fame and wealth, take your lover and children to dig wild vegetables in the suburbs, enjoy spring, enjoy food, enjoy a moment of pleasure, appreciate the fun of games in ancient poems, feel the love of "Jiangshangzhou" and let your body and mind wander in nature. Wild vegetables are a kind of flowers.
Open in a recession
Flower of wealth
A faint fragrance curled up.
Floating from the Book of Songs
Show it tenaciously one by one.
Wu Tian Jing Xuan potherb
Rich in juice
Defiled many pale lives.
Today, when we put our affectionate eyes
once again
Invest in those wild vegetables
Where you grew up.
Pursue delicious food
Hungry thoughts
Let many missing teeth
Learned to chew carefully