I was so surprised! The spring delicacies hidden in ancient poems

Spring is the season for tasting fresh food. Fresh wild vegetables, plump river fish, clear tea and wine... From ancient times to the present, seasonal food has brought people a unique taste experience. Today, let's find the spring delicacies hidden in ancient poems and appreciate the ancient people's extremely romantic spring interest and emotions.

Spring plate is a custom in ancient times, which refers to the ancient people putting all kinds of fresh and refreshing spring vegetables on a plate and eating them together with the whole family during the Spring Festival. The custom of eating spring plate has a long history and has undergone development in different dynasties. Not only has the dishes become richer, but the presentation, decoration, and color matching have also become more and more sophisticated. It can be said that it is full of color, fragrance and taste.

Spring, with its pink peach blossoms and green willows, is the best time to enjoy mandarin fish. After steaming, the tender and delicious mandarin fish is as white as snow, delicate and boneless, and melts in your mouth, as if you have taken in all the freshness of spring. Steamed mandarin fish is not only a delicacy, but also a treasure of the ancients for the gift of nature, and a date with spring on the tip of your tongue.

Chinese toon is a unique flavor of spring, also known as Chinese toon buds, and is known as "vegetables on trees". Whenever the spring breeze blows, Chinese toon sprouts new buds, which are green in color, rich in fragrance, fresh and crisp, and are deeply loved by people in spring. Since ancient times, there has been a custom of eating Chinese toon among the people, and there are many ways to cook it, such as scrambled eggs with Chinese toon, Chinese toon mixed with tofu, and Chinese toon fried shredded chicken.

As the saying goes, "Everyone who tastes fresh food will talk about spring bamboo shoots." As early as 3,000 years ago, fresh bamboo shoots became a delicacy on people's spring tables and were praised as "the best vegetable." The new bamboo shoots that have just emerged from the ground are full of fresh and refreshing energy. When cooked with the fresh and fat shad that has come up from the river, the collision of the two ingredients creates an extremely refreshing taste experience that anyone who eats it will praise.

Leeks are a vegetable that is in season in spring. The spring leeks mentioned in Du Fu's poem, also known as leek yellow, refer to the state of leeks when they have just sprouted. All things grow in spring, and Chinese medicine believes that spring is a good time to nourish the liver, and leeks are a good choice for nourishing the liver. After the spring rain, leeks are as green as silk, and paired with freshly cooked yellow rice, it is simple and delicious. Spring leeks fried eggs and spring leeks fried meat are both very delicious.

Spring thunders, spring vegetables are fresh. After a spring rain, spring vegetables grow everywhere, fresh and tender. Shepherd's purse and Artemisia selengensis are both popular spring delicacies. Spreading fresh steamed white fish with fresh green shepherd's purse has a unique flavor. Mashing Artemisia selengensis and mixing it with flour to make Artemisia selengensis pancakes is fragrant and delicious. The strong rural interest lingers on the tip of the tongue.

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There are many other spring delicacies described in ancient poems, such as "Snow foam and milk flowers float in the afternoon cup, and reed and wormwood shoots are used to make spring plates", "The Yangtze River flows around the city, so we know the fish is delicious, and the good bamboo shoots can be smelled on the mountains", "The ground is full of wormwood and the reed shoots are short, it is the time when puffer fish are about to come up", etc.

Spring dishes, mandarin fish, spring bamboo shoots, peach blossom cakes, peach blossom wine, rapeseed cakes... the ancients' elegant interest in spring food lies not only in the deliciousness of the food itself, but also in the cultural connotations and life philosophy contained in it. As time goes by, let us follow these spring delicacies to appreciate the elegance and feelings of the ancients and have a romantic encounter with spring.

Copywriter: Wang Ying

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