Bai Lu · Liangyi gets deeper and autumn, a bowl of sweet "Red Rice" to open Zhongqiu 丨 folk calendar · Twenty -four solar terms

Cover reporter Li Yuxin

"After the autumn does not go into autumn, after the cool and white dew." On September 7, with the arrival of the third solar term in autumn, Zhong Qiu began silently. At this time, the weather turned from heat to cold, and everything gradually became small and mature. The temperature of a day cool one day makes people feel a little bit of heart. But don't forget that autumn is also a bumper season. The delicious fruits and rich ingredients will appear in turn, and it will go to people's dining tables one after another.

Sweet potato (Tuyuan Network)

As the saying goes: "Bai Lu, sweet potatoes." Speaking of the seasonal ingredients of Bai Lu's season, the sweet and soft sweet potato could not escape. According to Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Sweet potato nourish deficiency, strengthen the spleen and appetite, and strengthen kidney yin." The folks believe that Bai Lu eating sweet potatoes can make no sour after meals.

"During the golden autumn, before and after Bai Lu, it was when the fresh red crickets (sweet potatoes) produced in the suburbs of Chengdu were listed in large quantities." According to folk expert Liu Xiaochang, the autumn taste in the old Chengdu people is indispensable. Sweet potato. "In the past, the streets and alleys in Chengdu can be seen, or pushing chicken heads to sell red cricket farmers."

Liu Xiaochang also mentioned that farmers who planted sweet potatoes in Chengdu in the old days were very hard. "There are many land in Dongshan, Chengdu, and Hongyu will be planted on the slope of the mountain. In order to obtain a high yield, the farmers must plow, dig, bury the gaps, pile up, and irrigation ... and there is an extremely laborious thing, that is, from the must be, it is necessary Go up the hillside to the ravine, dig deep yellow mud and pull the soil uphill. "

Hongya Rice (Figure Source Network)

When the weather is getting colder, when the sweet potatoes are mature, the hometown taste of roasted sweet potatoes also begins on the streets and alleys. But for the old Chengdu people, there are still the same common sweet potato practices, that is, "red rice rice". "Boil red rice rice, this is the custom that Chengdu people have been circulating for many years."

Liu Xiaochang introduced that red rice rice is generally divided into dried rice and porridge. "In the countryside of Chengdu in the past, three meals a day for people were two rare. The farmhouse with bad family situations was two meals a day, one thin or two porridge. Convenient, mix it in rice and cook in rice dried rice and porridge. "Sweet potato not only tastes sweet, but also is hungry. In addition to steaming, cooking and other cooking methods, people will change their tricks, such as frying, roasting, and drying into dryness, which is more resistant to storage.

"In the past, by autumn, every morning or night, from time to time, the hawkers who sold the roasted red crickets came from the depths of the streets, and the sound of loud loud sounds. The sweet red fragrance of the flutter, Chengdu people are really blessed. "Liu Xiaochang said with emotion.

In addition to sweet potatoes, it also has a sweet taste, as well as fruits and longan, which is also known as longan. In some areas of Fujian, there are traditional customs eating longan. "Bai Lu must eat longan", at this time the longan is completely mature, the sweetness is extremely high, and the taste is good. In addition, the people believe that eating longan on the day of Bai Lu has the strange effect of large -scale body. Longan meat is sweet and nourishing, and it is sweet and delicious. It is also a good ingredient for preventing "autumn dryness".

"The autumn wind is flying, and the white clouds fly, the plants and trees are yellow and the wild goose returns to the south." The autumn wind rises and cools. As the saying goes, "Autumn to make up for the winter", you may wish to take advantage of the autumn day to grasp the good time of this tonic.

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