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Xiaoman's dietary customs

Spring breeze blows, bitter vegetables grow, and wasteland is a granary. Bitter vegetables are one of the earliest edible wild vegetables in China. Zhou Shu: Xiaoman Day Bitter Vegetable Show. The Book of Songs: Bitter comes sweet, under the sun. It is said that Wang Baochuan ate bitter vegetables in a cold kiln for 18 years in order to survive. In the old society, farmers relied on bitter vegetables to satisfy their hunger every spring. Bitter bitter vegetable, better than jejunum. On the way to the Long March that year, the Red Army used bitter vegetables to satisfy its hunger and survived one difficulty after another. In the Soviet area of Jiangxi, there is a song that says: Bitter vegetables and yellow flowers are both wild vegetables and food. The Red Army ate them and went to the battlefield, heroically killing the enemy and winning the battle. Bitter vegetables are known as "Red Army dishes" and "Long March dishes".

Sophora alopecuroides is all over the country. Medically, it's called Patrinia, Ningxia people call it Sophora alopecuroides, Shaanxi people call it Sophora alopecuroides, and Li Shizhen is called Tianxiao Herb. On 1958, Mr. Nie, a famous Chinese gourmet, discovered a kind of bitter vegetable with yellow flowers in Ningxia, which was called "sweet bitter vegetable". Its leaves are big, its stems are crisp, and it is bitter and sweet. Compared with the common bitter vegetable with blue flowers, it has many advantages.

Kuding tea is bitter with astringency, astringent with sweetness, fresh and refreshing, cool and smooth, rich in nutrition, containing vitamins, minerals, choline, sugar, riboflavin and mannitol, and has the functions of clearing heat, cooling blood and detoxifying. Compendium of Materia Medica: (Bitter vegetables) Long-term use, peace of mind and qi, intelligence and fitness, anti-aging. In medicine, sowthistle is often used to treat fever, and the ancients also used it to sober up. People in Ningxia like to cook bitter vegetables, wash them and eat them with salt, vinegar, spicy oil or garlic paste to make them cool and spicy, and eat steamed bread and rice, which greatly increases their appetite. Pickling bitter vegetables in yellow rice soup is also useful. It tastes sour and sweet, crisp and refreshing. Some people also boil bitter vegetables with boiling water, and squeeze out bitter juice to make soup, stuffing, stir-fry and cook noodles, each with its own flavor.

Black pomfret can be caught in the waters near Changhua, Taiwan Province, and flying fish can be caught in Suao, the northeastern and southern waters. Bananas in Qishan, Meinong and other places in Kaohsiung County have entered a rich period. Taiwan Province Province is a famous banana producing area, and many bananas are exported to all parts of the world every year.