At the age of the year, the grass and trees are "inextricably" in the belly of the melon, and Lu You ’s wonderful solution to it is like this.

Cover reporter Liu Kexin

In July of the lunar calendar, the melon was cooked, and the melon that could be eaten was listed one after another. In the summer heat, watermelon is elected as the favorite of the whole people, and men, women, and children can't help get one or two pieces. But no matter how good the watermelon is, you can't eat it as a meal. When Sichuan people know how to eat food, white oil loofah is most suitable for the tea rice brought by the heat.

Loofah

Loofah, minced garlic, and salt, only three kinds of flavors. It is difficult to make a refreshing and smooth white oil loofah with fresh and fragrant flavor. Early, the loofah will become dark, and there is no crystal clear luster. It's late, and the white -green loofah has black burnt, which makes people have no appetite. Although loofah is soft, it is not good to taste. If the taste is floating on the surface, it is not delicious. Before making white oil loofah, you need to cut off the rough green outer skin, leave the soft melon meat, soak it, then cut into the pan. A delicious white oil loofah has only two colors of white and green. The loofah is like a warm and gentle luster, wrapped in thick juice, allowing people to eat a large bowl of rice in bitter summer.

Angou's loofah flower (Tuyuan Network)

Loofah, also known as Temple loofah, Buigua, Tiansuo silk, climbing Fujimoto in one year. Li Shizhen wrote: "Lilia, the Tang and Song dynasties had no unknown before, and there were all north and south today. They thought that the vegetables were introduced from abroad. Sowing in winter and spring, bloom in summer, and results in summer and autumn. The loofah flowers are open in the morning, and the petals will be closed at night. Although the flowers are large, they are unpredictable. Obviously it is a eye -catching color like yellow, but the vines are full of vines, but they cannot attract people's attention. She didn't care, her face rushed into the blue sky when she bloomed, no matter how big it opened, she would not hang her head down. In addition to eating loofah, you can eat tender loofah flowers, or fried or fried, with different practices.

Loofah

"For a few days, the rain is long and the grass is long, and the loofah is born along the tile wall." The enjoyment time of loofah extends from summer to autumn. After the season, loofah is old and tasteless, and there is no edible value. There are proverbs in the folk: "Small full season, money and no money, remember to eat 'three melons and three beans'." "Sanlou" refers to loofah, winter melon, bitter gourd, "three beans" refers to edamame beans, four -pointed beans, and peas. In Quanzhou, Fujian, loofah is also called "Summer Gua", which is a good thing to clear heat and heat the heat. Because of its characteristics of heat and solving heat, loofah can also be used as medicine since ancient times.

The loofah grows fast on the rattan, and soon becomes old and big on the rattan. After the meat disappears, there is only a tightly intertwined mesh. Although these tendons cannot be eaten, there are other uses. Open the loofah, wrapped with ovate -shaped black melon species. Put up the melon species carefully, and sow the soil in February and March in the next year. There is no need to choose a place. The side of the wall is OK. In the coming year, another beautiful melon vine.

White oil loofah

Lu You also knows this thousands of wonderful uses: "Loof melon polychonus is washed, and the remaining stains are exhausted without damage." Lilgamon is soft and flexible. It is the most suitable for washing the tablet. Wash the ink stains. In the folk, melon can also be used to finish the wash basin. Even in now, many families will still use loofah to wash the dishes. There is no need to pour a little detergent. It is still clean, environmentally friendly and convenient.

Sichuan people prefer to grow a loofah than pumpkin, cucumber, and bitter gourd, maybe because they prefer the umami taste of white oil loofah, or because of the wonderful use of loofah to wash dishes. Line autumn has passed, grab a summer tail, and eat the tender loofah for more than a month.

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