Our Henan people's own dishes -in the summer, have you eaten Nepeta?

Elephant Journalist Shen Zizhong

If you use a word to identify authentic Henan people, it must be "middle"; if you want to identify with a word, it must be "strong"; if you want to use a common vegetable on the market to judge, not running, percentage percentage Hundreds of nepeta. Looking at the whole of China, only Henan people are best for this, so that nepeta is fully integrated into the lives of ordinary people, which derives the oral language of local characteristic culture: "Do not eat nepetaine and mustard", "people who have eaten a large market nepeta "". But many do not know. In fact, the nepeta we often eat in summer is not the real nepeta.

Do not eat nepetaine

There is a long -term saying in Henan: "Do not eat nepetaine mustard." This is a complaint. The meaning is roughly uncomfortable. It is like eating food on the table. It is found that it is a mustard, and it does not fit my appetite.

In Henan in summer, Nepeta is a common home dish in the market. Because of the unique smell, some people can't stop and do not like to eat, especially young people. However, don't worry, these young Henan people will try to try in the future, as parents' ears are dazzled, and they will slowly become addicted to "poisoning". The reporter interviewed many middle -aged people in their thirty or forty years. Most of them reflected that they were young and were not keen on this bite, but later became more and more unruly. Of course, there are also those who say that they do n’t eat nepeta until they die, because in addition to unique smells and sweet taste, many people do n’t wait to see it.

Henan people make common Nepeta eating. I ate water noodles in the summer, poured garlic juice, sesame sauce, and added a piece of nepeta, and the color and fragrance lived. Those who love to eat nepeta are basically love. It is not uncommon for the night market to drink or drink big wine, calling the boss to put on a plate of "nepeta cucumber", and even ordering a "large market Nepeta".

Looking at the whole country, there is no place to eat nepeta like Henan people, especially south of the Yellow River. There is a quite interesting phenomenon that the people of Hubei, Anhui, and Hebei, which are close to Henan, also the people in some regions like to eat nepeta. Experts have found that most of the places in which provinces love to eat nepeta are concentrated in the dialect circle in Henan.

"People who have eaten a large market Nepeta"

From June 13th to 15th, the reporter interviewed many night market stalls in Xinghua South Street, Fengqing Road, and Qianqian Road, Zhengzhou City. The sales volume even exceeds the "flowers and hair". The reason is that nepeta is cold, mixed with iced beer, which is very enjoyable.

Nepeta is a plant with a "cheap" personality. Spring is planted in summer, and a small piece is planted. Without rooting, the leaves are more and more prosperous. Strange vegetables like Nepeta, as well as "mint", "ten coriander", "Huoxiang", "Houttuynia cordata", "Purple", "Cumin", and even "toon" and "coriander". These dishes are loved and some disliked.

Nepeta's appeal in Henan is a bit like Houttuynia cordata influenced in the south, but there is far from the popularity of Houttuynia cordata, and there is no reputation of Houttuynia cordata. This kind of hairy roots, the southerners are called "folding ears". When the northerners were just ate, the fishy gas could not be reduced, and they couldn't help it. If you eat too much, you will be addicted slowly. A Sichuan friend who met the reporter bluntly said, "The feeling of eating Nepeta for the first time in Zhengzhou was like your Zhengzhou people who eat Houttuynia cordata for the first time. Not eating a few times, you can't adapt at all."

It is precisely because of the unknown in Henan people that Nepeta objectively became a unique medium to recognize Henan fellow villagers.

There is also a saying that Henan is also popular, boasting a person who has seen the world, and he will say "people who have eaten a large plate of Nepeta." This ridicule can be described as the cultural essence of Henan people unknowingly discovered from a unique diet. According to research, this sentence originated in the Northern Song Dynasty, which roughly means that the local officials came to Kaijing in Jingjing at that time. After the sanctification, they needed to visit the Beijing officials to move around. When the Beijing official entertained local officials, he liked to use the market to install Nepeta. Over time, there is this statement. It is difficult to investigate this allusion. However, the record of Henan people's eating mustard began in the Northern Song Dynasty, but it was available.

Don't control the nepeo must

In 2018, some netizens published an article on the Nepeta that Henan people loved to eat, thinking that this nepeta was not actually Nepeta, but Laler. Later, Bai Mingxue, director of the Department of Preparation Department of Zhengzhou Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Jin Yunlong, etc., refuted this. Today, these two arguments are still fighting.

According to some online scholars, the nepeta often eaten by Henan people is not attributed to the genus of Nepeta in botany. Or "fake Su". Nepeta, commonly known as "cat mint", is commonly known as "cat mint" and does not belong to mints, because the connotation is enriched with nepeta. It's called "Cat Mint".

In this regard, experts from Zhengzhou Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine refuted that the basis is mainly: one is that although the two belong to the lip -shaped family, the same is the same spice, but the color is different; There is no need to get closer to the distance to attract foreign seeds to fight tooth festivals. Third, in accordance with the description of Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica" and the main origin of the main origin, it can be concluded that the nepeta eaten by Henan people is the positive and eight -Jing mustard.

The combat is a matter of experts, and our people can just eat it comfortably.

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