It also contains some nutrients such as cellulose, carbohydrate, acid and pectin. The contents of heavy metals, nitrates and nitrites did not exceed the national standards. Therefore, the nutritional components of Sophora alopecuroides are complete, rich in content and high in nutritional value.
Generally in Chaoshan area, during the period before Qingming Festival, buds were collected from fences or suburbs to praise sparerib soup. The soup is slightly bitter and sweet, with a unique aroma of bitter thorns. Generally, after the Qingming Festival, the buds are older and the thorns are harder.
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Bitter thorn is a small shrub. As the name implies, it not only has thorns, but also tastes bitter. There is a lot of rain in the south of China in spring. Under the nourishment of rain, bitter thorns often sprout buds. Chaoshan area has always been vast and sparsely populated, lacking in materials, and all kinds of goods have a tradition of being used to the maximum extent.
Therefore, even this bitter plant with sharp thorns can't escape the taste buds on the tip of Chaoshan people's tongue. People who live here, after thousands of years of trying, take Bud home to cook. Bitter thorn, also known as bitter vegetable.
The edible part of the bitter thorn is the tender bud just spit out, which is also bitter, prickly and fresh. The tender and bitter thorn heart is not much longer than chopsticks. Chaoshan dialect retains the ancient sound, and chopsticks are called chopsticks, so they are bitter and prickly. Wild thorns can be taller than people, but they are difficult to get close to. Chaozhou people holds a bamboo stick to pick a thorn, and picking a thorn is called stabbing.
In the early years of the Republic of China, the eating custom of bitter vegetables in chaozhou people was regarded as a strange custom, and it was recorded in Hu Pu 'an's "The Customs of the Chinese Nation": "Bitter vegetables are a kind of weed and lush. On Qingming Festival, women and children hold bamboo baskets with small poles, pick them up when they hit them, wash them when they come back, and cook them with bean sprouts. Popular food can clear blood and detoxify. "
Bitter thorns used to be wild. In recent years, people's daily living standards have improved, and the demand for bitter thorns has also increased. Rural people have planted them in front of and behind their houses, which can be used as fences and edible vegetables. However, after the Qingming Festival, the bitter thorn became old and no one ate it anymore.
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