In the eyes of Western missionaries, Ming dynasty China's vegetables is the world's widest and highest quality. Italy Matteo Ricci, wrote an extremely enviable tone describes:
China's vast range of climatic conditions, can grow a variety of vegetables.
Types of vegetables, plant cultivation and quality almost, all of which use the number, should be much more than the usual number of Europeans. Portugal kelushi missionaries had done in a similar way before the Ming dynasty China:
Garden there are many vegetables, such as turnips, carrots, cabbage, and the smells of various cuisines, garlic, onion and so on, is extremely rich.
According to the journal of the Jiajing Jianning Prefecture records, Jianning Prefecture alone produces Edible vegetables up to 50 species. Lesser Yan ping Fu, Jiajing also have Edible vegetables more than 30 species.
Ming dynasty in Jiangsu Province also has many vegetable varieties, such as Nanjing, Ipomoea aquatica, Changshu, carrots, taro, Jiading district, Hangzhou's most "nourishing people" euryale ferox, Lou ling, gaoyou and the baoying Lotus pod ..
. ... These vegetables are also exported. Bright red and tender while the sweeteners on the water chestnuts, rich in wuzhong, as treasure and are exported to the capital. Growth in Bank of Artemisia selengensis, Jiujiang, also by the pick, can carry hundreds of stones as big as food on the boat, traffic in the distance.
Ming dynasty Jiangnan area of also expanding vegetable food of the people. Prior to the Wanli, little South food intake water shield, is clearly recorded in Qing dynasty: "Lake mining of Ulva, since the beginning of Ming dynasty Wanli Zou Shun five", when Zhang Jundu drew of the mining of Ulva, Chen Zhong and alcohol, Ge Zhenfu the celebrities have a topic sentence, a biography.
After the Ming dynasty, many teachers inherit the previous generation writers ya Xian laudable tradition of brasenia schreberi, created a substantial number of celebrating the poetry and prose of brasenia schreberi. Yuan Hongdao most representative of which, in his view, in well-known West Lake water shield in the cuisine of the United States, especially the xianghu area, dip the best, its flavor is fragrant and pure sliding soft, such as crab fish pulp-fat, light but far superior, tender crisp than the Litchi, "only the flower of Orchid, fruit of the Bayberry, heterogeneous distribution ear".
Brasenia schreberi cooking progress, to a certain extent reflected the increase of vegetable consumption levels of the Ming dynasty. This is like now, it seems very ordinary, "bean sprouts", as in the Ming dynasty was due to the growing needs of the people for vegetables, "bean sprouts" approach has begun to receive the promotion:
Pick up the green beans, flooded one night. Wait up, new water wash, dry, sprinkle with a Reed mat wet lining, mixed with beans from the top with wet litter cover, its buds since long.
Due to "promptly began force-feeding" without soil can be cultivated, simple and can fill the vegetable shortage in demand, so the city during the Ming dynasty there were many specialized in the sale of "bean sprouts" peddlers who live off. With population growth of the city, developed Commerce, sprung up around the city a lot of farmers and traders during the Ming dynasty, which specializes in vegetable growing and selling, to supply the needs of daily life of the city, the areas in which they became a vegetable production area. As described in the journal of the Wujiang Hongzhi:
Suzhou Wujiang Chenghua Pang village, every day when the early morning quiet, young labour and even young children a super-market, one after another, the burden of carrying loaded with vegetables, as many as hundreds of Dan, sold into the city.
So wrote a titled writer Chen Duo Yuan dynasty: Pu sequence at any time, through canal irrigation, Ridge gourd. A new tender offer rich, found monk find trails for fast element. People could get food, Pepsi do path recently, hate meat Liang. Chen Duo will be a vegetable "tenants", as a row in a Ming dynasty master, show that in people's daily life in the Ming dynasty, the vegetables are among the most important. Edible wild vegetables are very popular in the Ming dynasty, Shao Can record notes of the sachet of ordinary people's homes for elderly dependent, is based on the vegetables for the soup. The wife says:
Dinner is done here, with some vegetable dishes taste, and no money to buy, suitable to his neighbor's House, and found a bunch of wild vegetables, make a bowl of soup, talking to rice. [Former Chamber] wild wild garden, pick pick grass greens, Lou ye Xiang ru. Cui Anglo-Sheng to temporarily leave for spoon and chopsticks. Rose young, not necessarily into five zu. Word cloud: 70 enough to flesh, not the instructions of nujia not for the fat. Sweet simple, worry-Ken complained sunflower girl. Vegetable rice has been here, she eats breakfast.
Thus, instead of the famine years in the wild and more than food, live food is usually the people, therefore, during the Ming dynasty emerged as the world's leading historians of science Joseph Needham, Lu Gwei-djen, said "looking for edible plants" that wild activities. Due to the efforts of search, varieties of vegetables than any dynasties in the history of the Ming dynasty are found much, and leaves only the most common edible wild plants of more than 165 species. These wild foods, are fried after picking or flooding, remove the acid and bitterness, fuel, salt can increase food. With the promotion of the consumption of wild vegetables, edible wild herbs have gradually enriched, pay attention. Journey to the 86th, wild vegetables, vegetable cooking methods:
Tender boiled daylilies, butyl acid fine white drums. Fu Qiang purslane, Jiang Jiyan bowel-English. Swallows not to sweet and delicate, Bud punches small crisp green. Bad Cook acanthaceous Indigo, Lu white dogs footprints.
Cat ears and wild down Piper, gray cooked can eat; Scissors unit, Bull Tong Lee, intrusion Wo screws hold the broom chestnut. Cardamine, lactuca sativa cuisine chestnut, green and creamy. FRY British bird flower, Ling boast;
Pu Gen and Jiao cuisine, four as real Tsinghua near water. Alopecurus, charming and good; Broken, and do not wear him;
From Ma under fences. Cheryl cotton, an ape footprints; Flowers of boiling oil to have to eat. Oblique artemisinin Artemisia Artemisia held mother, lamp e buckwheat buckwheat on the fly. Sheep's ear is bald, lycium barbarum, coupled with dark blue without oil.
These wild, if control over the "food plants" book may find its traces. In journey to the West, these vegetables are as "vegetarian cuisine" for entertaining guests, and these wild edible broad range, not only of famine, also make fine eating enough dietary survey.
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