Dragon vegetables to celebrate the New Year
Horseshoe bamboo cane water.
Water chestnut, scientific name water chestnut, is a fruit that grows in the field, and lotus root, the growth environment is a huge pond, when the harvest season is dry, people begin to dig horseshoe.
So far, there is no operation method for mechanical digging of horses' hooves, and it is all manual; I used to dig and shovel through the thick soil to find the horse's hooves, which was as hard as digging lotus roots, digging for a day, and at night I would have a sore back.
Bamboo cane, that is, sugar cane, is dedicated to sugar extraction, and the cane skin is blue-gray, which is obviously different from black fruit cane; Planting bamboo cane is also very hard, and the scorching summer is the growing season of bamboo cane.
However, if you don't take care of it, the growth will not be good, and peeling the cane leaves is the main job (in order for the cane to grow thick and tall, the cane leaves that are dry but still attached to the cane stalk must be peeled).
Sugar cane fields are basically impermeable to the wind, and bamboo cane has evolved blade-sharp leaves to protect itself, so even though it is 38-40 degrees Celsius, people enter the sugar cane fields tightly to avoid cuts.
If you think about it, in the scorching sun and high temperature, you have to wear a "chemical protective suit" to work, and the taste must be uncomfortable; I've been with adults before, and instead of peeling cane leaves, I gather them and tie them into bundles and take them home to burn for firewood.
Although it was an "easy" job, in less than ten minutes I was soaking wet, and there was not a single dry place on my body, so I hurried to rest and drink under a big tree in the distance, panting like a dog.
The weather in Lingnan is hot and humid, and the elderly often say that such an environment is easy to "heat first", that is, on fire, and the way to deal with it is to make herbal tea; The horseshoe grows in the pond, which is a cold thing, and the bamboo cane is sweet, and the combination of the two (sometimes adding grass roots) is a good cool drink.
The planting and harvesting process is not easy, but the production is simple, the bamboo cane brushes off the "ash" of the epidermis, which is a gray-white film, chopped into finger-length segments, and each section is open to four. Horseshoe brush to clean the sediment, you can put it in a pot with bamboo cane, add an appropriate amount of water to boil, turn to low heat and boil for about 1 hour, it is horseshoe bamboo cane water.
In this way, the water chestnut loses its sweetness and is only crispy, while the bamboo cane is not, it still contains sugar, and the hot sweetness of chewing is from throat to stomach. In addition, the elderly in the family will also use various local flowers or fruits to make herbal tea according to the season, such as monk fruit chrysanthemum, Lei Gong root bamboo shell vegetables, kudzu honeysuckle, prunella mulberry leaf bitter chrysanthemum (Xia Sangju), five-flower tea, etc.
Moreover, the older generation is extremely disgusted with the drinks sold outside by the younger generation, thinking that it is a gimmick made to make money; Can coke with sugar water and carbon dioxide quench thirst; It is better to drink fruit juice drinks than to eat fruit directly; Milk-containing drinks are better than drinking fresh milk, and so on.
Sometimes I gossip with my mother, I say that I am a weed and left to fend for myself, and now that I think about it, I don't know how I grew up.
In my limited memory, I was dizzy and hot, my grandmother touched my forehead, told me to take a hot shower and then covered with a quilt to cover my sweat; Bruises and cuts, no matter how deep or shallow, my grandfather went to the field to mash the grass and put it on my wounds, and incredibly, these tricks worked, and within a day or two, I was as vigorous as seafood again.
To say a few more words, I suggest that parents, when their children are clamoring to buy drinks, they may wish to put more effort into it, do it themselves at home, not to mention anything else, cleanliness and hygiene must be guaranteed.
Eating is also, the child does not want to eat, in my house is full by default, before the next meal, my lover will not give the child anything to eat, within three days, the child eats everything, and the food is delicious.