Higher position!The tang dynasty cucumber was a royal tribute

Cucumber delicious nutrition, the general population can eat, is one of the common vegetables in our life, don't look down upon cucumber!The cucumber in zhenyuan or yuanhe period of tang dynasty was a royal tribute.

This inner garden is the garden of the royal family. The "melon" in the poem is cucumber grown in the greenhouse with warm spring water, which is used to provide tribute to the court.

Cucumber salad is the only way to temper one's appetite.Nowadays, fresh cucumbers with yellow flowers can be bought in the vegetable market all the year round.But in ancient times, it was a luxury to eat a cucumber in early February.

If you lived in zhenyuan or yuanhe of the tang dynasty, and you wanted cucumbers in February, you would have been born to an emperor.Wang jian, a tang dynasty poet, wrote in "palace ci" about the royal scenery: "there are a hundred tall buildings in wine curtain, and flowers in front of the palace and willow temple.The inner garden is divided into warm soup and water, and the melons are in by the middle of February."This inner garden is the garden of the royal family. The "melon" in the poem is cucumber grown in the greenhouse with warm spring water, which is used to provide tribute to the court.

Even in the qing dynasty, cucumbers that were out of season were rare.The more rare, the more aroused the rich appetite.In the middle of winter or early February, if you want to eat cucumbers, you can spend a lot of money.Li jingshan, a native of qing dynasty, expressed great emotion: "cucumber is smaller than ginseng, like a hairpin value of gold.Small things can not increase life, ten thousand dollars a food is what heart!"

According to li shizhen, the cucumber was introduced by zhang qian from central Asia along the silk road. Later generations put the cucumber into the category of zhang qian's plant.

Lu you, a poet in the southern song dynasty, was a "cucumber lover". He liked eating cucumbers so much that he naturally wrote many poems about them.He likes the crispness and beauty of cucumbers and lettuce on spring plates.With an industry in qing lv, very zhou people yong CAI wei."He likes the pastoral flavor of cucumbers. "the gardeners pick cucumbers near the fence, and the village girls pick green flowers along the fence.There are still three volts of heat in the city.