Late spring has passed, and summer in Jinan is coming.

Early summer is the most beautiful season in Jinan Prefecture. The spring water begins to gush and merge, and the water of Daming Lake becomes clear and light green. The green willows around the lake hang down like golden threads, and the lake is full of lotus and green.

Tingting lotus bones bloomed quietly among the lotus leaves. The flowers are thin and delicate, not as enthusiastic as they bloom in midsummer. They are shy, clustered in clusters, and have a faint fragrance.

Suddenly, I remembered the song "Little Pond" by Yang Wanli, a poet of the Southern Song Dynasty: The spring is silent and cherishes the trickle, and the shade of the tree shines on the water, loving the clear and soft water.

The little lotus has just revealed its sharp corners, and a dragonfly has already stood on it.

What a beautiful picture.

In this early summer in Jinan, apart from the beautiful scenery, the most anticipated thing on the tip of the tongue is cattail.

In the past, Daming Lake was huge. When the lake was prosperous, it swallowed up all the water, and the smoke was vast. Therefore, people praised Jinan as "lotus flowers on four sides and willows on three sides, one city is full of mountains and half is a lake."

Among the lotuses in Daming Lake, there were really beautiful vegetables such as cattail, wild rice, lotus root, etc. at that time. "Jinan Quick View" once said, "The cattail in Daming Lake looks like wild rice and tastes like bamboo shoots. It is planted all over the lake and is one of the few in the north."

"Treasures of Provincial Plant Vegetables".

The current Daming Lake is separated from Wulongtan in the south by Baobei Road, and the north has been filled in to form Beiyuan Town. This "half-city lake" is long gone.

Fortunately, we can still eat cattail in Jinan, but most of them are grown and harvested in ponds along the Yellow River.