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Winter has just passed and the snow has melted. The footsteps of spring, stepping on the gentle beat, dyed the earth green. Grass, crawling in the newly awakened soil, timidly poked its head out and looked at this colorful world curiously. They spread their tender leaves, and the soft green danced with the breeze. At this time, shepherd's purse also began to flourish. Under the nourishment of spring breeze and spring rain, it is a good time for villagers to eat shepherd's purse. When shepherd's purse came into the market, it was called the picnic festival in my hometown and the vegetable picking festival in ancient times.

This seemingly ordinary shepherd's purse belongs to Cruciferae, also known as grass protection, chicken heart vegetable and intestine clearing grass. Its leaves are tender, the stems and leaves are fragrant, the whole plate can be eaten, and the taste is delicious. It is the top grade of green games and has been loved by people since ancient times. Spring comes early in February. On February 2, the dragon looked up, and it didn't rain until the dragon looked up. From the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar, spring returns to the earth, thunder shakes and everything recovers. The dormant creatures have begun to wake up from hibernation, and the "dragon" has also raised its head from its deep sleep and started to move. At this time, it was warm and cold, and everything recovered. The servant bid farewell to the slack season and began to work in the fields. They are open to spring flowers, poplars are floating, and huangyu leaves are standing; On those yellow meadows, a little new green was born. When the wind turns green, it also dyes the grass green. In the bright yellow and green all over the mountains, people who work in the fields will bring a small bamboo basket and shovel. After work, women often take some wild vegetables home. In the 1970s, the rural economic conditions were not very good, and wild vegetables were of course half of the staple food. When I was very young, I heard a song sung by my aunt: "Wild vegetables grow in the ground, and they are mothers. Small shepherd's purse is tender, so you can choose it as the staple food ... "There are many kinds of wild vegetables in my hometown, and shepherd's purse is the best one in my impression. But what grows most in Noda is bitter herbs, bitter fleabane bitter fleabane, purslane, noodles, doctor's dishes, husband's dishes, day lilies and so on.

When I was a child, I would pick wild vegetables with my brother and sister with a bamboo basket and a sickle. We walked in the countryside in twos and threes, chirping and singing: "Spring, barefoot running." Picking wild vegetables and pulling needles. "Country folk songs. The fields in the countryside are beautiful, with mountains, rivers, bamboo forests and fruit trees. Children are carrying sickles and bamboo baskets all over the mountains, and there are wild vegetables to be picked everywhere on the hillside, in Noda and in the grass. Some are chubby, some are long and thin, some have just sprouted a little bud, and some have clustered together. Sister said, pick quickly, and the food will be picked in the blue. Let's race to see who picks the most. So, we rob, make noise and laugh. When we are tired, we all sit on the ridge and have a rest. At this time, I will take off my shoes, roll up my trouser legs and catch small fish and touch shrimp in the ditch next to the ridge. My sister and I pulled out the wool needles on the ridge of the field. The purple grass on the stalk is sharp and pointed. It must be a hairy needle. When we squeeze the top with our thumb and forefinger and lift it, we will pull out the buds and stems below, which is called a hair pulling needle. The wool needle peeled off the clothes of the bud and threw the snow-white flower into the mouth. It was soft and My Sweetie's. On the day when he can't finish three meals a day, this is the best snack for rural children. In a short time, I have caught a lot of small fish and shrimp. Brother said, let's go home and let mother cook fish for us. Dude, you eat wool needles. Brother smiled and grabbed a pair of wool needles. He peeled them off one by one and said, I don't like eating them one by one. Eating like that is not enough. He just peeled a handful of wool needles, kneaded them into a ball and ate happily. ...

At home, my brother and I helped pick shepherd's purse, my sister was in charge of making small fish and shrimp, and my aunt was busy mixing noodles. After picking shepherd's purse, wash it with clear water first, then scald it with boiling water, squeeze out the water, chop it with a knife, and start to pack seasoning. At that time, it would be good to add at most two eggs or a little tofu to the stuffing. Aunt took down a small piece of dough, only to see her spinning quickly in her hand, and a round and thin dough came out soon. Then she picked a small piece of stuffing, folded her left hand, pinched her right finger a few times at will, and a round steamed stuffed bun appeared in front of us. Then, the aunt put the steamed buns neatly on the table.

Jinger, come and help mom cook. I quickly said, coming, mom. My aunt's house is a big straw pot with a chimney and has three pot halls. It cooks quickly. Three pots are cooked together, one pot cooks porridge, the other pot cooks fish and the other pot cooks Kang cake. I saw my aunt walking around with a small steamed stuffed bun in her hand. A round biscuit came out. After the pot is hot, Aunt puts a little oil in the pot first, and then puts the cake in the pot. Soon, the bright yellow shepherd's purse cake was ready, and the smell of shepherd's purse in the room was really mouth watering. The fire in the pot hall reflected my sister's face red and beautiful. After dinner, the red shrimp boiled small fish, yellow shepherd's purse cake and thin corn porridge on the table greatly increased people's appetite. Aunt said, Lin Er, is it delicious? Are you used to it? Delicious, delicious. Uncle smiled and said, of course it's delicious. Your father liked to eat shepherd's purse cake when he was a child. When I go back, ask my aunt to make more and bring it back for my parents to taste. ...

Shepherd's purse Shepherd's purse is not only a good dish on the table of ordinary people, but also listed as a royal diet in the middle of Qing Dynasty and became a delicious food for royal nobles. Shepherd's purse Shepherd's purse is a popular vegetable, and its cooking methods are varied, such as mixing meat stuffing, fish paste to make shepherd's purse balls or fish balls to make soup, directly mixing tofu and meat slices to make soup or stir-fry, making shepherd's purse jiaozi or wonton, and even mixing high-end dishes such as crab, shrimp and pond carp. Hometown people have a special liking for shepherd's purse. "On February 2 nd, pick shepherd's purse, pick shepherd's purse cake, and don't eat two or three pieces." This is the hometown people's praise for shepherd's purse.

At that time, I often heard grandpa say that shepherd's purse is rich in protein and glutamic acid, and eating shepherd's purse often is good for the liver. In Song Dynasty, Jiang Kui described the growth of shepherd's purse in his poems: "After ten miles of spring breeze, the wheat turned green." There is a saying, "Who says tea is bitter? It is as sweet as a cup of tea." Shepherd's purse is sweet, and its leaves are also good glutinous rice and soup. We also have the saying that "on March 3rd, shepherd's purse is a panacea", and the thick shepherd's purse porridge made of shepherd's purse, japonica rice and peanuts is called "Centennial Soup", which can prevent diseases and prolong life for the elderly. On the second day of February, every household eats steamed bread with shepherd's purse. It is said that children who eat shepherd's purse will not get scabies. If you have a married daughter at home, you must take her back to your parents' house to eat shepherd's purse steamed bread, and every household will eat noodles, fried cakes, fried popcorn and so on, which is better than taking the lead. Every year in Tomb-Sweeping Day, a bunch of white shepherd's purse flowers are hung in front of every house. It is said that this can ward off evil spirits ... An old man said that shepherd's purse was eaten to commemorate Wang Baochuan, and Wang Baochuan struggled in the cold kiln for her husband Xue Pinggui 18 years. Life is miserable. Picking shepherd's purse every day is a much-told story.

There are many wild vegetables in the vegetable market now. I didn't expect shepherd's purse to be so expensive, ten yuan per kilogram. In the past, hometown people mainly ate wild vegetables in famine years. Now people eat wild vegetables to taste fresh and change their taste. Whenever I taste this delicious food, I always think of the delicious shepherd's purse when I was a child. Shepherd's purse Shepherd's purse is the first spring vegetable to fall and turn green. It was born underground, fearless regardless of wind and rain. Shepherd's purse grows in the wild, so it is easy to pick. Su Shi, a great writer, admired shepherd's purse very much. He once praised shepherd's purse as "extremely delicious" and said that shepherd's purse is "a treasure of nature, small and sweet, with five flavors". Lu You, a great poet, once praised shepherd's purse with poems: "The residual snow disappears, the garden is fragrant, and the soup is delicious, which is better than sheep and dolphins."

In the sunny spring, it is really a pleasant thing to invite some friends to pick shepherd's purse in the field! On the land where the grass grows and the warbler flies, the purple and white tofu flutters in the wind, flying like a butterfly flapping its wings; Brilliant yellow rape blossoms are fragrant and refreshing, swaying in the breeze and waving golden flowers one after another; Pink peach blossoms and snow-white pear blossoms also exude attractive fragrance, and all kinds of wild flowers are competing to open and compete for each other. They are colorful, some as white as jade, some as bright red as fire, some as deep yellow as yellow, and pink as a touch of rouge, forming a colorful picture against the grass. We took off the wild needles and gave a silvery laugh in the gallop. Facing the spring, I picked wild vegetables, but picked out the joy of childhood, a fairyland on earth.

A shepherd's purse flower sings from the bottom of my heart: peaches and plums complain about the wind and rain all over the city, and shepherd's purse flowers come to Xitou in spring. Spring is back. Look at the beauty's head. The flag of spring is rising. Shepherd's purse shepherd's purse is the spirit of spring, and shepherd's purse is the decoration on the head of a beautiful woman in spring. ...