March in the countryside, everywhere is the sound of birds and flowers, a variety of flowers and trees have begun to germinate, blossom.
In the fields, there are not only a lot of farmers who are busy doing farm work, but also some old men and women who pick wild vegetables.
Don't think these are all from the countryside, in fact, nowadays a lot of people who go to the countryside to pick wild vegetables are some old people in the city.
In the countryside of some orchards, wasteland and road sides, just in the spring time, you can see a leaf like mouse ears, open yellow dwarf plant.
If you encounter, do not step on it, it is the "mouse ear grass", the most tender in March, used to do Qingming poop is very tasty, do not miss it!
Mouse Ear Grass Science
Mouse Ear Grass this plant in the countryside is too common, but also very good to recognize. It grows very short, usually just 20 or 30 centimeters high, and very weak, only one stem, no branches. Leaves are also very small, there is a white layer of small fluffy, looks very much like a mouse's ear, so it is named "mouse ear grass".
Mouse's ear is an annual herb, and it is one of the first weeds to grow in early spring. Usually when the snow melts, it starts to emerge. And around the time of the Qingming Festival, it will produce a small yellow flower at the top, which is very beautiful. And this kind of plant, or grow in patches, after the flowering of small yellow flowers in patches, very eye-catching.
Because last year more than a leap month, this year I found that in previous years to wait until March to grow out of the mouse-ear grass, as early as during the Spring Festival has grown out, although it is still very small, but this time the mouse-ear grass is the most tender, so some of the old people have begun to pick it.
Value reference of mouse-ear grass
As we all know, there is a very important traditional festival in early April, that is the Qingming Festival. And in our country, in this ancient traditional festival of Qingming Festival, many places all over the country will make some special snacks, the more well-known ones are Qingming Po Bar, Qingming Mochi and Green Dumpling.
And the production of these snacks, it is generally indispensable to the rat's ear grass, with it is more delicious, so the rat's ear grass in many places is also called it "Qingming vegetable", "Qingming fruit".
Ching Ming vegetable, as the name implies, it can be used as a vegetable to eat, but in the folk are generally used to make it to the green dumplings, Qingming bar and some other snacks. As a common medicine and food plant, rat's ear is still very popular today, even many city people love to eat it.
Particularly in the Hakka region of Guangdong, the custom of making snacks with mouse-ear plant during the Ching Ming Festival and entertaining guests with it still exists.
In fact, the mouse-ear herb is not only an ingredient, but also a very old medicinal herb, which appeared in many medical books in ancient times, among which "Gleanings from the Materia Medica", "Shennong's Classic of the Materia Medica", "Famous Doctors of Medicine", and "Materia Medica Compendium", etc. are all documented.
Mouse Ear is used as medicine, mainly to suppress cough, expectorant, asthma and bronchitis, and external use is still the treatment of trauma unusual medicine. In addition, it can also be used to lower blood pressure and treat peptic ulcers.
Conclusion
However, it is such a valuable wild vegetable that many people in the countryside often treat it as a weed, and usually remove it with hoes, herbicides and so on. After all, this plant in the rural orchards, rice paddies too much, it grows in patches, farmers look at it is very uncomfortable.
Warm tips
If you go to the countryside to pick mouse ears, you also need to remember one thing, that is, try not to go to the orchard, rice paddies to pick, because it is not quite sure whether someone sprayed herbicides or other pesticides. Before picking, it is best to ask first. After determining that it is safe to pick, don't be soft and pick some more to take home in a bag.