For Yunnan people, flowers are not only for appreciation, but also an indispensable protagonist of Yunnan cuisine. Only Yunnan people can make good use of flowers and put a series of delicious food made of flowers on the table for everyone to enjoy. One night in the spring breeze, green shoots appeared on the bare branches. A thunderbolt woke the earth and everything began to revive. People living in the plant kingdom began to enjoy the gifts of nature.
When spring comes, many people in Yunnan will go up the mountain, pick wild flowers and dig wild vegetables. Some of them are fresh, some are dried and some are pickled, enjoying the selfless gift of nature.
? Litang tree is called Muli pear tree, sour pear tree, wild pear tree and Li Du pear tree in other places, and Huize is also called Tanger tree, a wild shrub, Rosaceae; Flowers in early spring, umbrella-shaped racemes, white petals, flowering in March-April; The fruit is brown with spots, nearly spherical, bitter when it is immature, copper when it is ripe, and sweet and sour. The fruit period is from August to 65438+ 10.
? Li Tang is full of treasures. Li Tanghua (actually a bud, tasteless after flowering) is a kind of wild vegetable that Yunnan people especially like. It is rich in vitamins, amino acids and more than a dozen mineral elements needed by human body. It is said that it has the functions of astringing lung, astringing intestine and promoting digestion.
? Picking seemingly blooming buds in spring, removing bitter taste with boiling water, taking them out, soaking them in clear water for 3-4 times, then draining them and refrigerating them for later use. There are many ways to stir-fry pear flowers, such as vegetable stir-frying, cold salad, adding bean paste, sauerkraut or bacon or ham stir-frying.
? Pear blossoms have only a faint fragrance after they enter the mouth, and people with insensitive taste sometimes can't taste the faint fragrance. The sweetness of Li Tanghua is unforgettable, and it remains between teeth after continuous chewing.
? Yunnan people cherish this dish so much because of its seasonality. After this season, there will be no more pears. If you want to taste its sweetness again, you have to wait for the next spring. Ancient poets once used a famous sentence: "There is no wind, the sky is full of willows, and there is no rain."
? The fruit that blooms in Li Tang is called Li Tang fruit. In Huize, hometown, trees are called Tanger trees, flowers are called Tanger flowers, and fruits are called Tanger fruits, which are common plants.
? Li Tang fruit can be eaten raw, but it is sour and hard to swallow when it is immature, and sour and sweet when it is ripe, so it has a special taste. Cooked and washed pear fruits can be eaten after being cooked with clear water or light salt water, which can remove the sour taste well.
In rural areas, pears are mostly used for soaking wine and added to rural areas with homemade rice wine. Every time people pick pears and soak them in proper amount of rock sugar for a period of time, it becomes a delicious low-alcohol pear wine. If it is brewed with highly alcoholic corn wine or sorghum wine, it is another flavor.
? It is said that Li Tang fruit has certain functions of eliminating phlegm and relieving cough, clearing away heat and calming the nerves, promoting digestion and stopping dysentery, stimulating appetite, resisting fatigue, protecting liver, enhancing myocardial capacity, lowering blood pressure, improving dizziness and even resisting tumor. Most of them can be eaten, but the cold constitution can't be eaten at one time.
? In addition, Li Tangshu is an excellent stick for pear tree grafting. Li Tang has good toughness and hardness, which can be used as pear handles and hoe handles in rural areas, and its old piles can be used as bonsai and root carving.
? Li Tangshu is a kind of tree that looks ordinary, but in fact it is neither ordinary nor extraordinary. It grows in Shan Ye and silently contributes to greening and beautifying our global village.
? In the afternoon 10, at Foguliangzi 15.