The Hungry Ghost Festival, which falls on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month, is one of several important folk sacrificial festivals in my country. In Hainan, people burn paper and release sky lanterns when the Hungry Ghost Festival arrives. While offering sacrifices to their ancestors, they also eat a food called "Chicken Shit Vine" that is said to ensure peace and bring good fortune. Although this name is not very elegant, the custom has been spread in Hainan for a long time. Today's Lao Huangli will introduce it to you.
In Hainan, the Ghost Festival is also called Ghost Festival and July Half. For half a month from the first to the fifteenth day of July, people will burn paper and release sky lanterns to pay homage to their ancestors. . Chicken shit vine, because of its special smell, was also selected by Hainan as a sacred object to ward off evil spirits and exorcise ghosts. Therefore, every household in Qionghai eats chicken dung vine in early July every year, hoping to ensure peace and good fortune.
Chicken vine can be said to be a plant that obviously relies on its appearance to make a living, but people’s impression of it is often ruined by its unique name and smell. Yes, the reason why gall vine is It is called Chicken Shit Vine because its leaves have a faint smell of chicken shit when crushed.
But the chicken vine can actually be used for medicinal purposes. As a vine, the chicken vine likes to grow in bushes with warm and humid climates, and it has strong vitality. Its leaves are crushed with hands and smell like chicken feces at first, hence the name chicken feces vine. But after hearing it for a long time, there is a refreshing fragrance.
Chicken vine root has the functions of expelling wind, relieving cough, eliminating phlegm and stopping diarrhea, and treating colds. Chicken shit vine clears away heat, reduces inflammation, detoxifies, moistens the lungs and refreshes the brain. It is called soil ginseng among the people. Coughs can be cured by making a decoction of powdered leaves. Its potato pieces can cure blood tuberculosis. The leaves can also cure dysentery, its young stems and leaves can be steamed and eaten, and the stem juice is sweet and can be smoked! The juice of the vine fruit can be used to treat poisonous insect stings and should be applied to the affected area. It can also be used as medicine for frostbite.
In recent years, as people’s awareness of health care has increased, especially their understanding of the nutritional value of wild, pollution-free plants, some nutritious local foods have been unearthed, including little-known ones that conform to the concept of green food. Chicken Shit Vine Rice Noodles have been officially on the shelves and entered hotels and restaurants.
The "Chicken Shit Teng Baba", which was little-known in the past, has now become the most famous snack in Qionghai because it conforms to the concept of green food. In 1999, after being packaged and improved by local chefs, it was even more popular. Listed as one of the "Famous Chinese Snacks".
Now looking at the slightly unsightly name of chicken shit vine, in the eyes of tourists, it has become an alternative snack that must be tasted. In Qionghai, chicken feces vine is the undisputed protagonist of late-night snacks. In summer, a bowl of iced chicken dung vine cake with coconut milk is refreshing and pleasant, sweet and glutinous; in winter, a hot bowl of chicken dung vine rake, accompanied by the aroma of brown sugar and ginger, can dispel the tiredness of the day.
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