Product origin: Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province
Product season; mid-April to late September
Product characteristics: brightly colored, pure soup flavor, tender and lubricated, popular. The color is green, tender and fragrant, mellow and strong, distinctive flavor.
Composition: protein, vitamins and trace iron, nutritious.
Effects: cold and sweet, with fever, water, blood, lung, stomach, diarrhea, swelling, detoxification, etc.
Product Description: Brasenia schreberi is a perennial aquatic plant. The leaves are oval, dark green in color, and there are gelatinous transparent substances on the back of the young stems and leaves. The edible part is the new leaves that are submerged in the water and have not yet unfolded. It is rich in protein, vitamins and trace iron, and has a high nutritional value. The soup or soup made of Brasenia schreberi is particularly delicious and is listed as a famous dish in Hangzhou. The leaves of Brasenia schreberi in West Lake are oval in shape, dark green in color, with gelatinous transparent substances on the back of the young stems and leaves. Historically, the "Three Pools and the Moon" Brasenia schreberi is the most famous. Fresh Brasenia schreberi can be eaten with sugar; the nutritious, tender and fragrant "West Lake Brasenia schreberi soup" is one of Hangzhou's famous dishes.
Product history: Hangzhou's traditional products, produced in the West Lake and other freshwater lakes, also known as horseshoe grass, water lily leaves. Grass in the Jin Dynasty, there are "Brasenia schrebergeri" records. Legend has it that Emperor Qianlong traveled to the south of the Yangtze River, and every time he came to Hangzhou, he had to eat with Brasenia schreberi soup, and sent people back to the palace to eat on a regular basis. It is tender and slippery, used to make soup, fragrant and rich, and is regarded as a precious food at banquets.
Product allusion: "West Lake Brasenia schreberi" origin, there is a story. According to the book of jin - zhang han biography" records, jin dynasty zhang han in luoyang as an official, "because see the autumn wind, is thinking of wuzhong zizong zizou, schreber's jelly, perch chopped, said: "life is noble ambition, why can detain eunuchs for thousands of miles, in order to want to fame and fortune? So he ordered to drive and return". Zhang Han for the thought of the hometown of the delicious, they resigned and returned home, and later this story will form the "Ulva perch thought" this idiomatic allusion.