It is recorded in the medicine book that the lotus root is cold when it is born, and warm when it is ripe. The living can cool the blood and stop bleeding, clear away heat and quench thirst, cure cough, hemoptysis, fever and thirst, etc., and the mature can strengthen the spleen and stomach, replenish blood and stop diarrhea, and treat the weakness of the spleen and stomach, lack of energy and other diseases. Even the inconspicuous lotus root, because of its sweet, astringent and flat taste, also has the purpose of stopping bleeding and dissipating stasis.

The lotus flower, also known as the lotus, ranks eighth among the top ten famous flowers, and is known as the viburnum in the water. There are many literati and scholars who borrow lotus and use lotus to metaphor people.

Tang Dynasty Li Bai's poem cloud:

Clear water out of hibiscus, natural not carved.

Song Dynasty Yang Wanli "Xiao out of the Jing Temple to send Lin Zifang" cloud:

The lotus leaves are infinitely green, and the lotus flowers are different red.

Zhu Ziqing's "Moonlight on the Lotus Pond" refers to the lotus flower as "the gentleman in the flower" and "the beauty of the green cover".

The literati sang the lotus leaf lotus: "Out of the mud but not stained, clear ripples but not demons." ”

Speaking of the origin of the white lotus root, there is also a beautiful legend: according to legend, in ancient times, the Yellow River broke many times and flooded. One year, the relentless Yellow River flooded, and the river shot like an arrow into the embankment, breaking out of a depression to form a wide water surface about 400 meters wide. There is no fish or shrimp in the white water, and there are no flowers or plants in the bare wasteland on the shore.

There was a beautiful and kind lotus fairy who stole the seeds of a hundred herbs and went down to the bank of the Yellow River. She met a young man named Lotus Lang, who planted water chestnuts and gourd seeds in the pond, planted knotweed rice and artemisia bamboo shoots on the shore, and was dressed up by the lotus fairy to be more beautiful than anywhere else in the world! She also forgot the Qionglou Yuyu in the sky, married Lotus Lang, and lived a happy mortal life under the embankment of the Yellow River.

Unexpectedly, this matter was known to the Emperor of Heaven, and the Emperor of Heaven was furious and sent the heavenly soldiers and generals to arrest the Lotus Fairy for questioning. The lotus fairy only got to hide in the pond. When parting, she handed over a jewel made of her own essence to Lotus Lang.

A few days later, Lotus Lang was really caught by the heavenly soldiers. The moment the Celestial Soldier swung his sword at his neck, he bit through the orb and swallowed it in his belly. Although the first two sections of the lotus root lang's body are left, there is a thin white wire left at the edge of the knife, and when the knife is drawn, the white silk connects the head and neck again. slashed ninety-nine eighty-one knives in a row, and he couldn't kill Lotus Lang. The Emperor of Heaven gave him a magic hoop, tied him around the neck, and threw him into the pond. Who knew that after the lotus root sank into the mud at the bottom of the pond, it actually took root and grew a white and tender lotus root. The hoop was tied to one section, and it was one section further, and the hoop became a lotus root.

Besides, the lotus fairy hid in the pond, hidden in the grass, learned that the lotus root turned into a white lotus, and he also sank into the silt, when the emperor personally led the troops to arrive, an umbrella-shaped green leaf suddenly stretched out on the water surface, and a branch with a white flower stalk at the top, after a while, grew a lotus canopy, which was covered with beads.

Seeing this, the Emperor of Heaven hurriedly ordered it to be dug up. However, digging there, the lotus leaf is green, the lotus blooms there, and the white lotus grows there. The heavenly soldiers and heavenly generals have been digging along the embankment of the Yellow River, and wherever they dig, the red lotus, white lotus, and green lotus will grow there, and the emperor is so angry that he has no choice but to withdraw his troops.

Since then, the white lotus root and lotus flower have made their home in the pond under the embankment of the Yellow River, and they dedicate the lotus root and lotus seeds to the people here every year.

Han Zhijie and the others watched Yoyo chatting with Yamamoto, and asked in the air: "Yoyo, fooling the little devil again." ”

Yamamoto and the translator have been in Hantun for a long time, and they can understand some of the dialects here, and they all laughed when they heard Han Zhijie say that they were fooling.

Yoyo laughed along, and told them the legend just now, and they believed it to be true. Han Zhijie said: "There is really this legend, I thought you were teasing Yamamoto." ”

Yoyo told them that Yamamoto had taken a fancy to Hantun's white lotus root again, and was probably going to buy it.

Han Zhijie scratched his head and was worried: "Yoyo, I'm afraid it's not easy to do this time, the white lotus root is full of treasures, but it's the same, it's difficult to store, let alone shipped to Japan, even in Shennan." When the white lotus root leaves the muddy water, it will turn black and rot after a long time, and it can be left for three or four days at most. ”

Yoyo through the storage garden brought over, with eternal preservation function, things in and out of the slightest difference, boiling boiling water put in for a month, brought out still tumbling.

The work and life area where the brain is located does not have this function and belongs to the normal category.

With the storage park with free access, Yoyo has never considered the storage period in his life. When I first came through, I bought thousands of catties of lotus root at one time, all of which were placed in the storage garden, and two were placed in the cellar, so I never encountered storage problems.

Puzzled, he asked: "The prefectural committee asks for 500 catties of lotus root at a time, how do they store it?"

Han Zhijie smiled: "They will transport it back and put it in the cellar, a layer of lotus root and a layer of wet soil, and it will be no problem to put it for ten days and a half months." ”

Youyou thought for a moment, and then asked, "Brother Zhijie, can't we use this method to transport it to Shennan? ”

"This is not good, the temperature in the south is high, and it will not last for three or four days. Youyou, you have been to Shennan, you should know that most of the lotus root in the south is red lotus root, which has a large powder content, which is not as crisp and sweet as the white lotus root here us, and the taste of cold dishes is also poor. ”

It seems that Han Zhijie has studied the white lotus root and is a caring person, no wonder he can be elected as the village director at a young age.

Youyou and Han Zhijie talked, and Yamamoto could understand most of them, and if he didn't understand, he asked the initiative Youyou.

Han Zhijie and the others estimated that the lotus root they dug out was enough for 500 catties, so they simply cleaned it up and went back. In the thirty-nine days when the water turned into ice, digging lotus root was enough to suffer.

Han Zhijie and the others were all wearing leather fork pants. He was wearing cotton pants and a jacket, cotton socks on his feet, long leather gloves on his hands, and a ** hat on his head.

Leather fork pants are made of cooked cowhide, the trouser legs are connected to the shoes, the back to the base of the thighs, and the front is similar to the apron, connecting the two trouser legs.

Leather fork pants have good waterproof performance, can play a protective role in preventing being cut by ice cubes, and also have a certain effect of keeping warm and cold. In this era, leather fork pants can be said to be the standard for digging lotus root fishing in winter.

Since the 76th year of Hantun Village, the extra thousands of acres of ponds in front of the village have developed into thousands of acres of lotus ponds, and there are at least a dozen kinds of wild fish and shrimp in the lotus ponds, of course, the most are the Yellow River carp.

Last year's flood submerged all the lotus leaves, and this spring it is green again.

Hantun Village uniformly ordered a batch of leather fork pants, and wore them for fishing and digging lotus root in winter, although it was clumsy, but at least people suffered less.

The white lotus root in Hantun Village grows particularly well, each one is more than five knots, more than one meter long, and a lotus root has more than three catties. It was a lot of work to dig them out of the mud completely.