"The knife of head, leek, married to the new lotus flowers daughter-in-law, eggplant, cucumber, new." This is spread in a region of northern folk, said is the world four large fresh, although the words be vulgar and lost, the word is the truth. The so-called rough words not rough cut, probably so.
"Floral lotus root is the summer led the snacks article." One of my good friends in the memories of childhood, they first think of is this feeding, I can imagine him in writing this, we will surely sliding from top to bottom, like engine with the new oil's crankshaft.
The so-called "floral lotus root", as the name suggests, is lotus blooming season long out of the lotus root, the "sweet" word, not only refers to the lotus of incense, should also include the fragrance of lotus root. New out of the water lotus flowers, most tender, the most fragile, and most sweet, a bite out of it, and ga with a snap, mouthful of juice giving an oar, not at all the wicked of the earth like dross of more didn't at all "OuDuanSiLian"--it's silk haven't grow out. It reminds one of wangzengqi old man's "great play turnip", lotus root fresh flowers as fragile brittle, accidentally fell to the earth, he don't easy to pick up.
Water children didn't eat a few flowers lotus root, but, most is not through the proper channels, business to sit at the table to eat very gentle, need self-reliance, and through their own "labor" to obtain. A year after the great heat, full pond of lotus leaf out a green between two flower or red or white lotus, carry children know the mouth, and there is a flower can eat lotus root, and then quietly on the Tang into the water, sticking a blooming white lotus (only the white lotus long out of the lotus root to crisp delicious), a opposing firm go down, and then take the head, hand much a coarse as son arm of the white lotus root, use pond water slightly a wash, can't wait to a bite out of it--so, the first taste sweet taste lotus root, and not those elegantly-dressed sit on the edge of the table, in person.
Memory eat lotus flowers the most carefree once, when several in the late eighty s of a summer, that year, my mother-in-law of baoying inundated with water town handle affairs, in one of the villagers home stay for a whole week. The avalanche of water close to the grand canal edge, there are ten thousand acres have Hollywood territory, I go to in the middle of the lotus flowers in bloom, meet day of lotus leaf as a deity of keep out the water, quite spectacular charming scenery. But the most fascinates me or the week the house of villagers lunch table, the necessary is a cold OuPian flowers, a grail carefully cut OuPian white, sprinkle a little sugar, in that hot hot day, it will seem very cool and refreshing, pleasing a chopsticks down, is sitting by the mouth, yet to think of it, the tooth cheek or can't help but have between XianShui infiltrates.
Lotus flowers not only delicious taste, appearance also was good-looking, fine fine long, fresh and tender white, no a spot. The past reader describe beauty arm beautiful, commonly used a word called "lotus root in the arm", I guess, this "lotus root" must be lotus flowers, otherwise, the old practice of auburn lotus root on the skin was full of dark spots, where can I worthy of the weak MeiZhi good people?
In lotus root life, this summer lotus flower, it is the most white polished young time.
In the Mid-Autumn festival, this time lotus root, or can be eaten raw, just on the summer flowers than to lotus root, slightly some dross, not so refreshing, also have a bit of a shake off its entangled feeling; Most of the time, people get it done eat, can fry OuPian, also can pack the meat made lotus root clip, in the pan fry eat; I often eat of a kind of, is cut into the lotus root fine d, together with m pot cooking porridge eat, very delicious.
The period of lotus root, into its youth, as a young woman, although some crude, but have impressive in content.
Annual Mid-Autumn festival, and the items on, besides apples, pears, pomegranates, grapes seasonal fruits, the necessary and a quarter of a quarter of lotus root. Many of the items in the completion of the, I always feel or the lotus root and month recently, it most can let me really sense that the existence of the goddess of the moon goddess months, thought she was an ordinary woman. Lotus root and the relationship between the women, not only I said above "lotus root in the arm" that simple, folk proverb called "women's three days, three days of lotus root constantly man constantly ginger", that's quite the close relationship with lotus root. Another fact, more can explain the relationship with a woman just lotus root, this is a woman in children is after all of avoid cold, but not avoid is born lotus root. The reason is eating raw lotus root not only mean no harm, but can break loose passive congestion, for postpartum a good recovery. Therefore, in respect with lotus root on the custom, and I think, whether more because the moon palace is girl's sake?
Lotus root real maturity is in after the cold, this time lotus leaf would have withered and yellow, a withered lotus bleak in your land surface, completely without summer fresh and angry, let sensitive people saw instantly the feeling of life vicissitudes of life. Water is very cool, cool let people didn't want to do it, let's adult children to play the most headaches water events would have become the past, is cast him down he also not to go. But others in the water that is (were slanting) lotus root, wearing their long leather openings, down a dead leaves, with their feet in the bottom of the pond mud on fine fine ground, bend down from time to time, from the water pull a two branches of the brawny strong lotus root. When I was a child I often see these at water's edge (were slanting) lotus root (were slanting) lotus root, their action fascinates me.
The cold winter night, sometimes I work overtime home from the unit, dusky street of there will always be a small fire flashing light to Dublin, a sip of the hot furnace iron pot for cooking pot to most deep Hector the color the lotus root, buy a festival, held in the hand, judges are hot up immediately.
