Yang Guo's most famous specialty is "Yimen dried moss" and "Yimen dried moss", also known as Gonglai, which is produced in Yimen Town, Guoyang County, Bozhou City along the Wohe River. Dry moss is a semi-dry vegetable, which is processed by plants similar to lettuce. The appearance is loose, green strip, soaked in water before eating, crystal clear as jasper, crisp and refreshing to eat. Because it was used as a tribute in the Qing dynasty, it was named after the tribute. Premier Zhou Enlai used it to entertain foreign guests many times. Because it can make a crisp sound when chewing vegetables, Premier Zhou humorously called it "ringing vegetables". According to expert identification, dry moss contains 17 kinds of amino acids and 10 kinds of nutrients such as sugar, crude protein, calcium, phosphorus, potassium, sodium, iron and copper. It has not only high nutritional value, but also dietotherapy value. Appraised by Anhui College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, dried moss has the functions of clearing away heat, lowering blood pressure, benefiting five internal organs, dredging meridians, opening chest and benefiting qi, strengthening bones and muscles, whitening teeth, improving eyesight, promoting lactation, detoxifying and benefiting intestines. It is really a rare dish in the world. There are many ways to eat dried moss, such as mixing, frying, rolling, frying and boiling. Common recipes include a platter of tribute dishes, dried moss salad, fried shredded pork with dried moss, fried diced chicken with dried moss, sweet and sour dried moss, spicy dried moss, dried moss jiaozi, dried moss pills, etc. There are more than one hundred ways to eat them. Dried moss has become the fist product exported by Guoyang County, with an annual output value of about 300 million yuan. All kinds of dried moss products produced in Yang Guo won 7 gold medals at home and abroad. Tundra is a wild plant. It is said that Lao Tzu once planted it in the worry-free garden of Taiqing Palace in his hometown, not for eating, but as an alchemist. Taiqing Palace is only 15km away from Yimen Town. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Taiqing Palace was in war, and the seeds of this plant flowed into the people and were obtained by farmers named Zhang in Yimen Mengyuan. They were processed into tribute dishes and became court dishes 300 years ago. However, this plant has high requirements on soil, moisture and climate, and it is difficult to expand in different places. There are two kinds of dry moss in a year, spring moss and autumn moss. The whole growth period is only about 75 days, which requires soaking buds in wells, border field seedling raising, ridging and transplanting. Planting early, only raw fiber and no meat; The planting was late, and the weather turned cold, leaving only a handful of dead leaves. When harvesting, peel the leaves, use a knife to produce vegetables, grasp the time, and ventilate and dry. As early as the Republic of China, dried moss was famous in the area of Huguang and Nanyang. The golden autumn of 65438+ 10 is the season for harvesting and processing dried moss. Merchants from Nanyang and Huguang came to Yimen Ancient Town with their bags on their backs to buy dried moss. Nowadays, dried moss is going abroad and being sold all over the world. Original website: Laozi Hometown Network/html/guoyangtechan/92.html.