Dried cabbage, I don’t think anyone has ever tasted it, is a common ingredient eaten by people in southern Guangdong.

Dried cabbage has the functions of nourishing the heart and regulating blood, clearing away heat and relieving irritability, quenching thirst and diuresis, and clearing away heat from the lungs.

Braised Pork Bone Soup with Dried Cabbage is the Laohuo Soup that Laohuo people love for nourishing the lungs.

In the past, in the countryside, many people would dry cabbage in the sun every winter, and ours was no exception. As the saying goes, "Dry cabbage at the beginning of winter."

The climate in the south is mild in winter and the air is humid. Cabbage (referring to small cabbage, not northern Chinese cabbage) grows well, and the supply is often in excess of demand. In order to prevent the cabbage from rotting in the fields.

My father would take advantage of the gap between dusk and early morning to chop down the cabbage.

After school, we helped to select, remove old roots and yellow leaves, put them into bamboo baskets, and then placed them in an open area in the yard, where they were exposed to the wind and sun for a long time, and some of the water evaporated, and then we were ready for the next step.

Country people often help each other when doing things. When a family is busy, neighbors will come over to help.

Early in the morning, the aunts and uncles from next door came over to help. They were chatting and laughing in the yard while quickly picking out the short, thick-stemmed milk cabbage (Shanghai green). They gathered together and rinsed each plant with clean water quickly.

The inside of the cabbage cores must be washed, and there must be no sand. After a while, they finished rinsing, and carried a basket full of clean cabbages to the kitchen to wait for soup. Their arrival added a bit of relaxed atmosphere to the yard, and their mutual help

Let everyone forget the hard work.

After a large pot of water boiled, my mother placed individual cabbage plants in the pot and blanched them until the chopsticks could be inserted into the vegetable stems. Do not blanch them for too long, as the cabbage leaves will turn yellow.

Take it out, put it in a bamboo basket, rinse it with cold water, take it out and drain it, and then dry it in the sun.

Rural people often use bamboo poles or ropes to hang dried vegetables. The cabbages hanging outside will not be harmed by rats. They are green with yellow, and yellow with green. Rows and rows are very eye-catching and have become a unique dish in the village.

landscape.

After three to five days of being exposed to the wind and sun, the cabbage hanging outside loses its moisture and becomes "skinny", drying into beautiful black and white dried cabbage, becoming a veritable dried cabbage.

After several days of drying, the moisture of the dried cabbage has dried up like tobacco leaves, and will break if touched lightly by hand.

The way to judge whether it has been dried is very simple, that is, if the dried cabbage will "break into pieces" when you pinch it with your hands.

The weather in the south is prone to moisture return, so just bundle them up and put them in a sealed iron box or bag.

In the past, vegetables were scarce in spring. In order to make up for the shortage of non-staple food, dried cabbage naturally became the main dish of this season.

My mother added some tofu, vermicelli, and pork belly to dried cabbage to make dried meat vegetables. We ate some at each meal and we could eat many meals.

Dried meat vegetables taste hundreds of times better than pickles eaten three times a day, making us never tire of eating them.

Nowadays, society is rich in materials and people can eat fresh vegetables anytime and anywhere throughout the year.

However, country people still retain the habit of drying dried vegetables. In fact, it is to adjust their lives, release their emotions of abundance, and to improve their appetite. It is a kind of pleasure in life, a decoration of a better life, and a kind of pleasure.

The elegant, fresh and tranquil southern Cantonese style continues again.

Spring comes and spring comes, autumn comes and autumn comes again. We no longer stare at the big fish and meat, but instead think of the sweet potatoes, corns, pumpkins... and we prefer the dried cabbage my mother dried in the winter.

Dried cabbage can be associated with every aspect of life.

Sun-drying cabbage uses sunlight to squeeze out the water in the vegetables and evaporate it, so that the taste of the vegetables is mellower and sweeter; similarly, people's emotions also need to squeeze out the water that should not exist, so that their mood can be better.

Relaxed and more joyful; in life, it is more necessary to squeeze out the water that seeks troubles, eliminate distracting thoughts, cut out the complex and simplify it, so that you can feel more happy and sweet, and the sky is brighter.