Chapter 6 Section 6 Red Amaranth White Amaranth

Amaranth is white, smooth, tender, red and green. It is sprinkled with black seeds that are finer than silkworm seeds. After watering, it stretches two leaves from the soil and embraces the sun.Amaranth leaves are oval to lanceolate, entire, smooth or wrinkled, green, yellow-green, purple-red or variegated. Amaranth is native to China and India. When I was young, in eastern Hubei, it was read as "sweaty" dishes, which didn't make sense. I just poured bath water on it. The alkaline bath water, after inhaling amaranth, was full of energy, and raised the banner of youth, red or green, in the morning light Hold up the crystal dewdrops.I thought the bath water was sweaty, and it was sweat-addicted, so it was called sweat dish.There are many people planting vegetable gardens in Gonggong Xincun. Amaranth grows according to the terrain. The taller and denser the amaranth in the lower places, the sparser and shorter the plants in the higher places. For example, in economic geography, the higher the altitude, the lower the economic content.There is a lot of water in eastern Hubei, and it is hot in summer. It is like setting a steamer. Human nature is very violent. They like to eat green onions and side dishes. It is said that amaranth and soft-shelled turtle should not be eaten together.

At the end of the 1990s, Fengtai Hanzhuangzi people also became commercialized, and Beijingers were willing to be the vegetable vendors of the times.They imitated Hebei and Shandong vegetable vendors to sell vegetables in the market and set up stalls, but it didn’t work. They felt that the hunters sold fish, and the elephant breeders sold rabbit meat.One day, there was amaranth, but no one knew about it. The owner of the stall, an old Beijing man, was in a hurry and his forehead was sweating. I was overjoyed, so I bought two bundles.The old man took the opportunity to yell loudly: "Look, look, look, this is southern food, the red dish in the south, the southerners know how to eat it best, and he bought two bundles of southerners as soon as he came!"He entrusted me with it, but he still saw more and bought less. Beijingers don't know amaranth, and they don't know how to make it.Also, Beijingers don’t sell vegetables like they do, thinking that they are shouting about something interesting.

I like the kind of small amaranth that only grows to six leaves, no matter red or white, with roots, wash and drain, heat up salad oil, put it in a pan, add a little salt, stir with chopsticks, half-cooked garlic (new) Garlic), ready to cook.There is a detail, white amaranth is tender and smooth, so only eat vegetables, red amaranth is green and astringent, and its soup mixed with white rice is very flavorful, so stir-fry red amaranth, pour some water when preparing to stir-fry. Later, there was an old lady who sold vegetables by the side of the building every day. She had an iron tricycle. I don’t know where she came from. Han Zhuangzi is in the south of Fengtai Bridge. Red rose, or white jasmine.On festival days in Beijing, garlands of flowers are arranged all over the city overnight, and millions of pots of flowers from Huaxiang are transported there.To the south is the Science Park and the World Park, then Dabaotai Village, and further south is the Dabaotai Han Tomb.I went to Langfa by bicycle, and on the way, I asked the peasants at the edge of the field about the way home. A farmer spoke Sichuan dialect, and I learned that the land here had been contracted by farmers from other provinces.About 15 kilometers to the northwest is Lugou Bridge. There are 550 lions on the bridge pillars. I rode there on December 1, 2001. It was Lugou Xiaoyue. The cool wind hit along the wide river, and my heart was cool. Lonely, after reading the three characters of Yuanping City, there is a feeling of suspense, the years are long, when I come many years later, things are different, but the huge round of Xiaoyue, its cool light makes my heart wild. Silver Earth.Back in Fengtai, I learned from the radio that Lin Haiyin passed away in Taipei, leaving only a fiber to tie the world. Is this the desolation of Yuanping City?Looking at Dan Village from the left, there is Sun Simiao's Yaowang Temple, which was originally Yaowang Village.To the northeast is Fengtai Railway Station, and Changxin Store is in that direction.The old lady always came to the side of the building in the afternoon when the sun was slanting to the west, and sat under the wall to sell vegetables.Or a few peppers, three eggplants, two handfuls of leeks and a few bundles of amaranth, as well as loofahs, cowpeas, and once she sold a big pumpkin.I always buy her food, sometimes even without it.Her vegetables are grown by herself or by her neighbors.She likes to give me some food.The old lady is tall and tall, she could be a model when she was young, she has a long face, with traces of historical handsomeness, she wears a white cloth jacket, her arms are open, her two huge copper-colored breasts hang down, and the milk has been sucked by the years, so she is a bit empty .Under the setting sun, she wore a bright copper ring on her quiet, kind, wrinkled finger.She sometimes sells wild amaranth for sale, and I like it too. The wild amaranth is full of flavor, but there are small burrs on the back of the leaves, which rub my throat, but in a generally boring era, the smell of wild amaranth tells me that the taste of the earth is still the same.