Wuhan people love to eat Hongshan vegetable shoots, about Hongshan vegetable shoots some anecdotes must also love to hear.
Cabbage shoots this name rue Taiwan vegetable, commonly known as rape, red is called red rape. Hongshan vegetable shoots that belong to the red oilseed rape. Planting this dish requires fertile soil, lower temperatures, generally fall planting winter collection. Its purple dry pavilion, yellow flowers brilliant, stem fat leaves tender, vegetarian fried plate, rich and delicious. It is said that Hongshan Baotong Temple around the taste of vegetable shoots is particularly good, produced elsewhere can not be comparable to it, so there is a saying, to the Baotong Temple bells to the range of places produced by the vegetable shoots is authentic, "from the city (Wuchang City) thirty miles to change color carry, Xun other kinds of also". Wang Jing Yi "Lin Zhai Poetry manuscript" has a chorus of vegetable shoots:
Sweet said Zhou Yuan capsule, Xin Chuan Shu pepper.
Not to jiangsuke production, but also vegetable shoots label.
Purple dry frost crisp, yellow flowers with snow delicate.
The late woad is black and white, the same is the Chu in the war.
On the origin of Hongshan vegetable shoots, in Wuhan area circulated a beautiful legend. According to "Wuhan General View", according to legend, more than 1700 years ago, at the foot of the Hongshan Mountain, there is a pair of lovers, named Tian Yong and Yu Ye. One day, they went to Hongshan to play, and were bumped into by Yang Xiong, who was nicknamed "Wicked Tai Sui". Yang Xiong saw the beauty of Yu Ye and ordered his fighters to rob her. Although Tian Yong tried his best to save him, he was outnumbered and was shot to death by arrows at the foot of Hongshan Mountain, and their blood dyed the land under Hongshan Mountain red. Yang Xiong's group was also killed by lightning on the mountainside. Local farmers will Tian Yong, Yu Ye buried on the spot, not expected the following fall, around the mound of purple-red vegetable seedlings. The townspeople diligently watering, often fertilizer, the purple-red vegetable seedlings actually pumped out fat shoots. That year was a disaster, food grain harvest, the townspeople graveside vegetable shoots to fill hunger, pick and grow, more and more pick, people rely on it to survive the year of famine. The townspeople have collected vegetable seeds, planting their own, and pick to the city to sell. The city people ate the sweet crisp fragrance, praise, so beetroot in the Hongshan area can be promoted.
Beetroot shoots meat, vegetarian fried have a unique flavor, and a folk story introduced by the red soup butterfly noodles are beetroot shoots as the raw material of the delicious dishes.
People believe in celebrities, celebrities like to eat food can also be popular favor. Thus, the allusion to "scraping the ground" appeared about Hongshan vegetable shoots. Wang Baoxin "continued Hankow series" on the record: "the beginning of Guangxu, Hefei Li Qin Ke Hanzhang governor of Hubei and Guangdong, cool taste of this product (according to: refers to the Hongshan Vegetable Shoots), looking for planting in the countryside, it is not as good as. Or said 'the soil is appropriate'. Qin Ke is choice of Hongshan soil, ship to return, so the Chu people rumor said: 'system military scrape Hubei land to go also'." In the early years of the Republic of China, Hubei Governor Li Yuanhong left Wuhan to Beijing when the president, his wife, such as Lai Ben Gui love to eat Hongshan vegetable shoots, every winter will send a special mission to Hongshan to transfer vegetable shoots. 1949 January, the KMT Executive Yuan Zhang Qunfei came to Wuhan for Chiang Kai-shek to say, sabotage the peace movement, but to no avail. Before leaving, he thought that Hongshan's beetroot shoots were a long-famous specialty, and he didn't know whether he could eat them in the future, so he said to Zhang Dulun, the chairman of Hubei Province, "Go to Hongshan tonight and buy 300 pounds of beetroot shoots so that you can bring them back to Nanjing in the morning." Someone wrote a poem to ridicule the matter cloud: "from now on resigned from Ezhou Road, empty carries Hongshan vegetable shoots return."