Why do you want to eat "bitter vegetables" in Xiaoman solar terms? What is bitter vegetable?

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 once 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. It is called Patrinia in medicine and Tianxiang in Li Shizhen. 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. Zhangye people like to cook bitter vegetables. After cold washing, they mix them with salt, vinegar, spicy oil or garlic paste to make them cold and spicy. Eating steamed bread and rice 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.

In addition, the temperature in Xiaoman solar terms increased significantly and the rainfall increased. The temperature will drop sharply after the rain, so pay attention to adding clothes and don't catch a cold. Xiaoman is the prone period of wet skin diseases, so the diet should be based on refreshing and light vegetarian food, and often eat foods with the function of clearing away dampness and heat, such as red beans, mung beans, wax gourd, cucumber, day lily, cress, auricularia auricula, carrots and tomatoes.