The allusion to Huai'an Pu'er Cai is as follows:

Huai'an Pu'er Cai has a legendary history. According to legend, during the Southern Song Dynasty, Liang Hongyu, a heroine who fought against the Jin Dynasty, and her husband Han Shizhong defended Huai'an. In the process of fighting against the Jin Dynasty, they were heavily besieged, with a lack of food and supplies inside and no reinforcements outside. At the time of great danger, they happened to find that horses eat bushel stems, and thus took bushel vegetables to fill up their hunger, successfully solving the predicament of food and grass, and eventually the army and the people were united to defeat the Jin soldiers. From then on, the bushel of vegetables in the mouth of the people of Huai'an left an honorable name: anti-jin vegetable.

This story has been passed down in Huai'an for a long time, and whenever Huai'an people introduce this dish to foreign visitors, they always tell this legend with a fluttering brow, and so the Po'er dish, which is so soft on the lips and teeth, has got some more special flavors.

Environment of Origin

Huai'an District is located in the transition zone from the northern subtropical zone to the warm temperate zone, with both northern and southern climatic characteristics, and belongs to the temperate monsoon climate zone, which has a pleasant climate and four distinct seasons. The average temperature is 13.8-14.8℃, the average annual temperature in the urban area is 14℃, the lowest temperature is -21.5℃, the highest temperature is 39.5℃; the annual frost-free period is 210-230 days; the average annual sunshine is 2250-2350 hours, and the sunshine percentage is 52% on average.

Significantly better than the southern Jiangsu region; by the monsoon climate, rainfall spatial and temporal distribution is uneven, winter rainfall is scarce, summer rainfall is concentrated, the annual rainfall of 880-1100 millimeters; the average wind speed of 2.9-3.6 m / s between the year-round dominant wind direction of the south-east wind. The GI zone is located in the low-lying and flood-prone area of Huai'an District, which has low-lying terrain, deep soil, fertile land, typical rice soil and swampy soil, and is a natural place for cattail cultivation.