Shepherd's purse, also known as the grass, belongs to the cruciferous plants, early spring seedlings for wild vegetables. Qingming Festival pick flowers whole grass for medicinal use, the Chinese medicine name of caper flower. Its adaptability is very strong, all over the country can grow, the name of different places, Hunan called it chestnut, the northeast people called it seasonal vegetables, Shanghai people called it pillow vegetables, Zhejiang people called it fragrant Bodhi vegetable, in ancient literature there are chestnut wheat, chicken heart vegetable, protect the life of the grass, such as the alias of the hundred years of soup. Protecting grass is said to be the nature of its function, the centenarian soup is said to be the growth of the universal, whether rich or poor can be enjoyed throughout life.

Shepherd's purse has been eaten in our country for thousands of years, "Poetry" "who said that the bitter, sweet as a shepherd's purse," the verse, indicating that the Western Zhou Dynasty people have been eating shepherd's purse. Shepherd's purse eating method has many many: shepherd's purse fried tofu, wrapped fried shepherd's purse, pickled shepherd's purse, clear mixing shepherd's purse, shepherd's purse balls, shepherd's purse dumplings, shepherd's purse wontons, March 3 shepherd's purse boiled eggs and so on.

In the waxing moon, shepherd's purse grows out, thin and thin, an ordinary wild vegetables. But its fragrance is unique and attractive. The light wind blew, melting sunshine wiped, shepherd's purse on the thin shoots, that shoots on a small bract, that bract gradually opened into the size of the rice grain of white flowers. We smelled the scent of spring, we smelled the scent of our own life and thoughts.

In all honesty, this in the fields and streams can be seen everywhere in the stars of the small white flowers, is extremely common, not to mention with the bright spring flowers can not be compared to, is almost the same size with it compared to the flowers of the violet or granny flowers, but also a lot less, so a little pink white, only a little light fragrance, almost people can ignore its existence. But it is so inconspicuous small flowers, is the wild spring messenger, in other green plants are mostly sleepy eyes have not yet fully awakened from the hibernation of the dream, it has been reported to the people spring has come to the news.

Zhou Zuoren in the "hometown of wild vegetables" in the article describes his hometown of Shaoxing, chestnut: "chestnut is the east of Zhejiang people often eat in the spring of wild vegetables, the countryside needless to say, that is, as long as there is a backyard of the city of the family can be at any time to pick food, the women and children take a scissors and a 'seedling basket', squatting on the ground searching, is a kind of fun! The women and children each took a pair of scissors and a 'seedling basket' and squatted on the ground to search for them, which was a kind of interesting game work. At that time, children sang: 'Shepherd's purse, Malantou, sister married at the back door. Later, some people from the townspeople brought marjoram to the city to sell, but shepherd's purse was still a wild vegetable that had to be picked at home."

Now, the market has been artificially cultivated chestnut, than the wild chestnut bigger and more tender, and all seasons can enjoy, is no longer limited to the spring, but tasted far from picking their own chestnuts of the kind of wild flavor and interest, perhaps from the unfrosted through the rain, or perhaps drunkenness is not the wine, but care about between the mountains and the water, right. Shepherd's purse in the hearts of many people is not just ordinary wild vegetables as simple, it represents childhood, hometown, old times.

Song - Xin Qiji "partridge sky" in the "city of peaches and plums worried about the wind and rain, spring in the stream head caper flowers." It says that the delicate peach and plum blossoms in the city are most afraid of the wind and rain; while the caper flowers at the head of the stream in the field are starry and open to the wind and rain: it turns out that spring is staying here! Xin Jiaxuan here is both lyrical and realistic, the vitality of the caper flower is indeed beyond the imagination of ordinary people.