It is commonly known as the gourd, which is widely born in the Yangtze River basin, and the ancient book is called "Jiang", and it is also written as "苽". Tang Wei Zhuang's "Gift to the Fisherman": "The grass clothes and lotus hats are like frost, and the self-said family editor Chu Shuiyang." The autumn wind blows oranges all over the shore, and the smoke and rain around the river plant Jiang ......" I still remember that Lu Xun made a big turn in an article to refer to a principal surnamed Jiang with "Zhubai". If this word is widely spread, I am afraid that all the people surnamed Jiang in the world will have something to do with it. The root system of the white water is intricately entangled in the bottom of the water, quite buoyant, and it is called "the gourd mound" in the countryside. Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica" has a cloud "Jiangnan people call the mushroom a mushroom, and its roots are intertwined", which explains the origin of the name. In the late spring, the new seedlings grow from the underwater root plate, green and delicate, floating on the water surface in a group, reflecting the blue sky and white clouds, at a glance, even the breath of people is incomparably clear. The tender stems of this new seedling are pulled out and named as Ran'er Cai, and the fried shredded meat is extremely sweet and delicious.

It has been famous for a long time, and on the side of Taihu Lake, it is known as the three famous dishes in the south of the Yangtze River together with lettuce and sea bass. Coconut white was born in Mizusawa, developed in the water, borrowed the aura of Mizusawa, and came out of the fresh and graceful, plump, white and tender and attractive. Because of the white flesh and white tenderness, the appearance is like a sexy calf, so it is known as "beautiful legs" in eastern Zhejiang, which is a bit imaginative.

When the white water grows into a white man, the junction of its slender leaf sheath and the leaf has white banded spots, which our hometown people call "the eye of the gourd". When you go to the pond side, according to the swelling degree of the "gourd eye" you find, you can know the old and tender condition of this callus white. The white is supported by a tight-fitting leaf sheath, which is called "water shell" before the leaf sheath is peeled, and after the leaf sheath is peeled off, it is called "water shell". When eaten raw as a fruit, it is crispy and sweet. Lu Xun recalled the extremely delicious and delicious water chestnut, callus white and muskmelon he had eaten in his childhood in "Morning Flowers and Sunset", and called it "the bewitchment that made him homesick".

It is suitable for stir-frying, roasting and other cooking methods, and meat vegetables together with braised red braised to suck the soup, then its taste is better, sauce roasted coconut white, fried pork slices, minced meat red stewed coconut white...... It's all delicious. Among the crowds, the most commendable is the fried edamame with white sauce. Peel off the old roots and outer skin of the white pepper, blanch it in boiling water, remove it, and cut it into thin oblique slices; cut the red pepper into slightly smaller long slices, and boil the edamame beans in a pot of cold water and pick them up. Put the minced green onion and ginger in the oil pan to stir up the fragrance, and stir-fry the white callus, edamame, red pepper, soy sauce and sugar. The taste is soft and elegant, like autumn water, crisp and slightly flexible, and there is a fragrance in the slight sweetness, which fully shows the graceful flavor of Jiangnan food. Shredded white pork is a simple but very classic delicacy, white and tender coconut white, hand in hand with shredded meat, smooth and tender, and with bright green and red peppers, add a lot of color. The cabbage I make most often is this shredded and stir-fried, or diced and stewed with diced pork, dried seeds, dried shrimp, and bean paste.

Cut the white into four cloves with a knife, put it on the head of the rice pot like steaming eggplant, add sesame oil, tempeh paste, salt, etc. and mix together, the entrance is fragrant and tender and glutinous, no residue, salty and sweet, the food is unforgettable; It is gentle and low-key, and it matches with other ingredients and will not steal the limelight from others. Li Yu once said: "The beauty of vegetable food is one in the clear and the other in the clean." "The view is white, and it can bear its beauty.

It is also an interesting plant, only when it is invaded and infected by a powdery mildew, its reproductive dominance of heading and flowering is inhibited, and its basal cells are stimulated to proliferate, can a hypertrophied young stem be formed. From this point of view, the white is actually a nutrient-rich gall - which is a bit of a mussel disease. To be more precise, powdery mildew is like our human vaccination. A small amount of infection, the plant body makes a protective strain, if the excess, the self-defense system is overwhelmed, the white is not only small, but also full of black powder, that is, commonly known as "cow gourd".

If you have the courage to eat it, you will have black teeth and black lips. To prevent the infestation of powdery mildew, the method of high temperature control is the most effective. But the villagers don't understand this strange truth, they only know that every year in the dry season they set fire to the pond. In the countryside, every winter and the New Year, in the twilight of the four fields, the wildfire in the pond is blazing, reflecting the children's cheering and leaping figures, which seems to have become a custom.

It's just that this black powdery fungus also has a patriotic character. I have seen a scientific and technological information that says that there are large areas of mushrooms in the waters of North America, but they have never given birth to "white fat boys". Their agricultural science and technology personnel introduced powdery mildew from China to sow it, but no matter how busy they worked, they only bloomed and did not bear beads, which really made the old beauties angry.

It belongs to the Poaceae family, and the rice and wheat are the relatives of the family, and the seeds produced by the ears of its wild plants are slender and long like shuttles, and the color is dark red like roses, that is, our hometown is called "high seedlings", and the so-called "carved beard" in ancient books is also. Bamboo is also a grass, bamboo flowering and bearing seeds is the precursor of defeat and death, bamboo seeds are also slender and long, the ancients called "蕧". White and carved red, the rice they cook is sticky and delicious, and the shape is neat, and there is an indescribable clear atmosphere. If you grind the carved beard into powder, the powder is red, and make it into a cake, and the pot will be full of blooming roses.