Introducing Huai'an specialties of the composition seven hundred words

Pu Cai, commonly known as grass buds, for the young stems of bushes, Pu Cai into the feast in China has a history of more than 2,000 years, "Zhou Li" that is, "Pu mince" records. Ming dynasty Gu said in a poem: "a chopsticks crispy thought bushel of vegetables tender, full of fresh memories of carp fragrance". Jianyan five years of the Southern Song Dynasty, the Golden State 100,000 troops attacked Huai'an, Liang Hongyu led the troops to guard Huai'an was a long siege by the Jin soldiers, no food and grass, no military aid outside the situation, accidentally found that the horse eating bushel stems, and therefore take bushels of vegetables instead of food, to solve the problem of food exhaustion predicament, the people and the people of the army and the people work together, and finally defeated the Jin soldiers, the folk of Huai'an and bushels of vegetables for the "anti-Jin dish". Therefore, people in Huai'an also called Pu Cai as "Anti-Jin Vegetable". Since then, eating Pu Cai has been widely popularized in Huai Yang area. Nowadays, Pu Cai has not only become an indispensable main dish in local banquets, the so-called "no Pu is not a banquet", but also has been out of Huai'an, into Shanghai, Nanjing and other large and medium-sized cities.

Pu Cai, also known as deep bushes, bushes Lijiu, bushes bamboo shoots, bushes buds, bushes white, bushes root, bushes children's vegetables, for the perennial plants in the family of Tennantaceae pseudo-stems of bushes. Born in swampy rivers and lakes and shallow water, China's Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Sichuan, Hunan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Hebei, Yunnan, Shanxi and other places are distributed to the southern water towns most.

According to the different edible parts, can be roughly divided into three categories: First, the pseudostem by the leaf sheaths hold together and become, Shandong Jinan Daming Lake and Jiangsu Huai'an Spoon Lake Pu Lai; Second, the white long and fat underground grape stems, the famous Chenzhou Pu Cai in Huaiyang, Henan Province and Kunming, Yunnan, Jianshui around the fragrant buds of Pu Cai; Third, the white and tender such as wild rice short shrunken stems, the famous Yunnan Yuan Mou of the mat grass Pu Cai.

Huaian Chuzhou cattail, unique advantages. The local cattail germplasm resources are rich, there are green stem class and red stem class two big species, each big species and several species, which Tianfeigong cattail, plant type tall, up to 230cm, stem width up to 7-8cm, fragrant and crisp, tender and crispy as bamboo shoots, unique flavor, rich in nutrients, the variety is also known as Huai bamboo shoots for cattail in the best products. Chuzhou cattail planting is mainly concentrated in the low-lying river swings area, the silt layer is thicker, generally more than 0.8m, the organic matter content of 115g/kg, the soil is rich in nutrients, is very conducive to the production of cattail, water, soil, gas and other natural conditions have reached the "pollution-free agricultural production requirements in Jiangsu Province," the local standards, and the current pollution-free cattail base in the whole region certified an area of 60,000 acres.