In Jiangsu and even neighboring provinces, people have the custom of eating cress every Spring Festival, especially in Zhenjiang, our town. People not only want to eat cress at home, but also large and small hotels should be grandly launched. Cress is also called passepartout.

This? Passepartout? How many good wishes people have placed.

According to legend, as early as Shang Dynasty, ancestors ate Oenanthe javanica, and Yi Yin, a great chef in Shang Dynasty, listed Oenanthe javanica as one of the world's delicacies. As for the Zhou Dynasty, it was even more grand. People not only eat cress, but also list it as a sacrifice. ? Flooding, dredging its Qin. ? This is the Book of Songs? Truffles? Dishui poetry. This? Qin? It is Oenanthe javanica, which depicts the labor scene of harvesting Oenanthe javanica from one side.

Oenanthe javanica belongs to the Eight Immortals in water. These eight immortals refer to eight kinds of aquatic vegetables: Oenanthe javanica, Zizania latifolia, lotus root, Euryale ferox, arrowhead, water chestnut, water shepherd's purse and water chestnut. There are different opinions about Eight Immortals in the Water, but Oenanthe javanica is always one of them. It can be seen that people admire it.

As the old saying goes, when it comes to the twelfth lunar month, loess is three points more expensive. At this time, the price of Oenanthe javanica soared. I remember one year when Oenanthe javanica was planted less, which was a small year. At that time, the price of Oenanthe javanica was six to eight yuan per catty, which was higher than that of pork and beef at that time. No matter how expensive it is, every family still wants to buy it.

Harvesting cress is hard work. In the cold winter, the water is covered with thin ice. Farmers wear one-piece rubber clothes, go down to waist-deep water, uproot Oenanthe javanica, and then shake it vigorously to clean up the sludge at the roots.

The cress has been picked back, so we need to make it look brand-new. There is still sludge in the roots of watercress that has just landed, and there are many beards and messy roots, which should be removed and cleaned up. After cleaning, it needs to be washed with clear water at last, so that it can be listed in a refreshing and radiant way.

Collect cress year after year and eat cress year after year. I hope this auspicious cress can bring good luck to all good people in the world.