Melons are tender and edible, and they are also useful for old ripe

The melon is like a woman wearing light green clothes in the hot summer, walking from the golden flowers without bringing smoke and entering the crowd. The folk nature of the silk melon also makes it the protagonist of many literati paintings. Qi Baishi often uses it to express his admiration for life in the garden.

Silk melon is the fruit and vegetables that make people closest to life in the garden. When I was a child, my grandmother built a small shed with dry bamboo in a corner of the garden. In the spring rain, the silk melon vines spread, and then yellow flowers emerged, such as the small yellow copper trumpet played by the music team of our junior high school. In the numerical sound, the silk melons competed with each other and tied the branches, and the melons were rippled and the melons were ripped in a row.

The production area is in hot Asian regions such as India and other Asian regions. It was cultivated from the Central and Southern Peninsula to the southern part of China. In the Ming Dynasty, Li Shizhen's "Bencao Melon" said, "The melons were silent before the Tang and Song dynasties; they are present in the north and south today, and they are considered regular vegetables." However, Du Beishan, a poet of the Song Dynasty, had a poem called "the melons in the spring": "The lonely pigs enter the spring and the mountain looks clear. It is raining and sunny for many days, and the tiles are growing on the grass along the grass." It can be seen that the Song people knew the use and beauty of melons, and Li Shizhen's sense of time may be strengthened.

Wang Rongyang once examined that squid melons were first introduced and popular in the south of the mainland. Because the south was called squid in ancient times, it was called "squid melon". It was changed to "squid melon" in the Qing Dynasty, mainly as recorded in Quanzhou Prefecture, Fujian Province. "There are squids in the old squid, so it is named." In the late Ming Dynasty, a large number of immigrants came in Taiwan. In the heart of immigrants who were reluctant to live in a deserted place, they could actually be used as vegetables and changed to "vegetable melon".

Melons are cold in nature and can relieve heat and relieve heat. They are the best ingredients in summer. They are suitable for stir-frying and cooking. However, when cooking, you must add some ginger to it. In addition to adding flavor, it can also be cold and neutralized.

Li Han of the Qing Dynasty once slaughtered melons to cook "stop being too raw" in "I'm not understanding the meaning". Later, from modern nutrition, I learned that the plant mucus and wood materials contained in melons are easy to irritate the kidneys and stomachs, and should be eaten thoroughly to avoid stomach discomfort.

The most common home-cooked dishes should be fried clams with melons. The fusion of mountains and seas is a dialogue between the benevolent and the wise. It can be seen with a calm and light taste. If you add a little white pepper, you will sneeze and smile and forget to say. Replace clams with fresh small rolls, and the seafood taste is deeper. The small rolls have a soft texture and are soft and unlucky. They can't replace them with a harmonious mountain and sea song.

What I love most is the silk melon noodles line, or maybe I miss the long-lasting melon beans. I add some egg paste before I get the pot, and the Taiwanese flavor is absolutely delicious. Green melons and yellow eggs, as Hu Zhufeng described, "It's the mountains outside the sun, the mountains outside the sun are chicken eggs, and the mountains outside the mountains are slices of melons." However, what writers on the other side do not see is that the noodles (bean flags) that shuttle between them is an unknown skyline, which mainly guides the ups and downs.

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Sheet melons are tender and edible, and they are also useful for old and mature. High-quality "sheet" melons can be dried and become "sheet melons". They are suitable for washing tableware and even taking baths. Even if modern standard products are replaced, they are still called "vegetable melon cloth".

The Southern Song Dynasty Shuyou said in the "Laoxue Temple Notes", "The silk melons are polished and washed, and the remaining leaves are all the same, without being exposed." It is even more elegant.

"turn into spring mud and protects flowers", another great use of melon is "melon water". It collects juice from melon vines from the head of mature plants. It is a beauty product of Taiwanese people. In addition to cleaning the skin, it can also protect the face "water dough". Some people in Changhua have developed it into a grassroots maintenance brand, with an annual sales of 3 million bottles and is also ready to enter the military and around the world.

The folk nature of the silk melon also makes it the protagonist of many literati paintings. Qi Baishi often uses it to express his admiration for life in the garden.

"Whipped vines and old trees are dim and drizzled", the "Whipped Sand in the Sky" in the Yuan Dynasty has been passed down for many years. Sadness to autumn is the love between Chinese literary youths in ancient and modern times. Writer Bi Liang from the other side said that he believed that "Whipped vines" are dry melon vines, because the next sentence "The small bridge flows water family" is the most suitable for melon, which is a national vegetable.

There is no need to be so sad when talking about melons. Melons are like a woman wearing light green clothes in the hot summer, walking from the golden flowers without bringing smoke and entering people easily.

Melon, the melon also has the meaning of missing or hanging. "Thinking" is a peaceful life, leisurely seeing the southern mountains, and passing by, "winding" is the sun is on the mountain, the bright moon in front of the bed is on the old side, and the moon is calm and happy as you grow old.

As for the Taiwanese saying "Gourds and Lettuce Melon", it is a person who is moldy or unexpectedly happy, it depends on whether you like gourds or vegetable melons. 柯永輝
記者生涯20多年,北投出生長大,旁觀過苗栗、台中、嘉義等地江湖,喜吃愛喝也好奇飲食掌故,受唐魯孫、梁實秋、逯耀東、朱振藩等啟發,食記溯源結合雜感,我手寫我口。圖/柯永輝