King of nuts

Jiao Xiaoqiao

In early May, chestnuts began to sprout. From late May to early June, chestnuts began to blossom. It grows into a turquoise ball, and around September and October, the hair ball turns light brown, and the chestnut slowly cracks its mouth, and the chestnut matures.

One year, when the chestnut was ripe, I stood under the chestnut tree and watched it with great interest. I didn't expect a chestnut ball swaying with the wind to fall rapidly and vertically, and it just hit my mouth. The burr penetrated the skin, causing a terrible pain, and then my mouth became swollen.

At work, the wound had scabbed, and my colleagues thought that my husband and I kissed too hard and accidentally bitten, so they all joked with me. I said it was pierced by chestnut balls, but everyone didn't believe me. A few years later, my colleagues still talked about it as a joke.

In the Southern Song Dynasty, Lu You wrote Notes on the Old Learning Temple, which described that there was a man named Li He in Kaifeng, whose fried chestnuts were well-known and well-known. No matter how other shops follow suit, the taste will never reach.

According to Lu You's records, sugar-fried chestnuts have a history of at least nearly a thousand years in China. Up to the Liao Dynasty, the royal family not only had a special chestnut garden, but also had a full-time staff responsible for sugar-fried chestnuts.

In the past, all families here liked to buy chestnuts and go home to fry or cook them. Now they all take chestnuts and spend a few yuan to explode chestnuts in special places. The machine for exploding chestnuts is an oval iron guy like popcorn. Everyone is waiting in line, talking and laughing, and there is a kind of cheerful and festive energy.

Some people bury chestnuts in the sand and store them. Smart traders hire some people to peel the chestnuts completely by professional methods and put them in the cold storage for quick freezing. No matter what season, we can buy chestnuts with pure taste, cook porridge, make cakes and stew chicken ...

Chestnut is known as the king of dried fruits, and its cultivation history in China can reach more than 2,5 years, which was first seen in the book The Book of Songs in ancient books. Chestnut, which originated in China, is widely distributed in areas with an altitude of 37-2,8 meters in China, and is a kind of nut that is common in mountainous areas.

chestnut is sweet and warm. It has the effects of nourishing stomach and strengthening spleen, tonifying kidney and strengthening tendons, promoting blood circulation and stopping bleeding.

Chestnut is rich in unsaturated fatty acids, minerals such as calcium and iron, and B vitamins. These nutrients have a good preventive effect on diseases such as hypertension, coronary heart disease, arteriosclerosis and osteoporosis, and are good food for preventing cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.

The content of vitamin C in chestnut is very high. Vitamin C plays an important role in human body. Besides preventing septicemia, it can also promote the absorption of calcium. Therefore, eating more chestnut is helpful to prevent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.

Chestnut is rich in minerals such as sugar, fat, protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron, potassium, and vitamins C, B1, B2, etc., which can strengthen the body.

Chestnut contains high calories and sugar, which can quickly replenish lost physical strength, relieve hunger and provide energy for the body.

Chestnut is rich in riboflavin, which is very helpful to the healing of oral ulcers. It is hot and dry in autumn and prone to oral ulcers. You might as well eat some chestnuts on weekdays to resist oral ulcers, aphthous and other diseases.

in the 4th century BC, Jin was at war with its neighboring countries. The king of Jin commanded the soldiers to personally expedition. The three armies went to the canyon and were besieged by enemy soldiers. People are hungry without food and grass.

A woodcutter in Shan Ye met the King of Jin and pointed to the chestnut tree. "Delicious food is at hand, so why starve to death?"

The King of Jin ordered chestnuts in the surrounding mountains to be steamed and eaten. The soldiers were all well with soreness in their waist and legs and diarrhea, and they were full of energy. Their morale was greatly boosted and they defeated the enemy and won the victory. After returning to the DPRK, the king of Jin did not forget the merits of chestnuts and named them "victory rice."

There are many poems praising the delicacy of chestnuts, and Yu Xin says, "Lin Qiu chestnuts are fatter." Fang Hui's poem says, "The wall of Sun Wong is chestnut and tender." Du Fu's poem says, "The mountain family steamed chestnuts to keep them warm." Zheng Yimei said: "Fat, tender, warm, and full of chestnut, I don't know if I am old and gluttonous."

tip: eating chestnuts raw is not easy to digest, so if your stomach is not good, you'd better not eat them raw to avoid stagnation of qi. Pregnant women and children with constipation should not eat more chestnuts.