? The first time I knew about water chestnut was in a joke. The joke is about a man who was born in the north and didn't know water chestnut. He was an official in the south. Once he ate water chestnut at a banquet, and that man put it in his mouth together with the shell. Someone said to him, "You must remove the shell before eating water chestnut." In order to cover up his shortcomings, the man said, "It's not that I don't know. The reason for eating the shell together is to clear away heat and detoxify." The person who asked said, "Is there such a thing in the north?" He replied, "Where is the mountain behind the mountain in front?" Northerners tried to cover up their mistakes and made bigger jokes as a result.

Since I have never seen or eaten water chestnut, I don't know what it looks like or what it tastes like. I have only a smattering of this joke. I only know that because water chestnuts grow in water, and the northerner said that there is no water chestnut in the front and back of the mountain? I made a joke.

? Why use the word "encounter"? Because many years later, on the morning of February 9th this year1,when I went to the market to buy food on holidays as usual, I saw a stall selling water chestnuts by the roadside and two young women were selling water chestnuts. A pile of black water chestnuts was laid on the ground and padded with a sack. There is a small card next to it, which reads the two characters of water chestnut and its function. Because the water chestnut looks like a horn, it is not as big as a child's palm, and it is very cute. However, there is no such water chestnut in Guangdong, so a bunch of people are watching the fresh.

The two young women were very enthusiastic, saying that water chestnut with shell 15 yuan a catty, 25 yuan a catty. What about a catty with shells? You can probably peel four or two pieces of meat. Because its shell really takes up a lot of weight. If you buy meat alone, it is 25 yuan a catty. But you can also buy a catty or two with a shell and ask them to help you peel the shell. Because two middle-aged women were very enthusiastic and kept pushing their water chestnuts, people asked them how to cook them. How to eat? What's the effect, and so on ... They all answered one by one. It is said that this water chestnut grows in ponds and lakes in Hunan and Hubei. Boiling water chestnut is like boiling peanuts, and it can be eaten raw. If you eat raw water chestnut, you must eat tender water chestnut, which is red and called Hong Ling. Hong Ling, also known as "Suzhou Red", grows in ponds, and has high nutritional value, containing many vitamins and minerals. The obtain water chestnut pow has edible and medicinal values. Wuxian county has crisscrossed river networks and dense lakes, which is suitable for the growth of water chestnut. As early as the Tang Dynasty, water chestnut was widely planted in Wuxian county. Du Xunhe, a famous poet in the late Tang Dynasty, wrote in "Send someone to visit Wu": "The night market sells lotus roots, and the spring boat carries Kirara". At present, the water network area in the east of Wuxian County is the main producing area of water chestnut.

Old people can eat it, but old people eat it just like old horseshoes. Soup is the most beautiful, and it is very pink. You can cook chicken soup and pig bone soup. Men can also tonify the kidney after drinking it, which is very effective. If a girl has moisture, she can buy a soup to drink. It is very effective to get rid of moisture, and it is also cool and detoxifying. Children can be eaten as snacks. She said that the children there especially like to eat, and they are all scrambling to eat when they are cooked. They help people peel their shells with scissors and answer customers' questions. The peeled meat is white and tender.

Because the water chestnut looks like a horn, some people used to take an old and beautiful water chestnut to hollow out the meat inside and put a rope on it for children, saying it could ward off evil spirits and bless peace. The shell of water chestnut can also be used to boil water and soak feet to treat beriberi and sweaty feet. Because of their enthusiasm, many people buy it, and some people stand there after buying it and let them shell it. Finally, I think, I have never eaten such water chestnut, so I'd better buy some and try it. Finally, I bought a catty of shelled meat with an unknown middle-aged woman with children. Shells are free of charge, so I took a bag of shells home, thinking that I could boil water for my father to soak my feet to treat beriberi. Because dad's feet will sweat in winter and have beriberi.

I bought water chestnut and went home to stew black chicken soup. I used to put Agrocybe aegerita in black-bone chicken soup, but this time, I put some water chestnut meat in it and found that the soup was very fresh and sweet, which was different from the previous one that only put Agrocybe aegerita. Try boiled pork bone soup with water chestnut next time. I think it will be delicious, too.