The daisen countryside is rich in natural resources, with a variety of shaped plants and a variety of delicious and strange wild fruits. After the spring, people are about to finish digging wild vegetables, and then go up the mountain to pick wild fruits and go into the water to fish has become the most enjoyable life of rural people in summer. When the March bubble and snakeberries in the mountains are gradually ripening, the small red fruits dot the color of the earth, like pearls sprinkling on the earth, catching people's eyes.
When summer alternates with autumn, the wild fruits of the countryside are the most abundant. At that time, there will be a tempting wild fruit in the mountains, which looks like a "small wine glass", and is no less famous than the August melon and the jujube, which is a good childhood memory of many rural people.
This kind of wild fruit in the mountains, which resembles a "small wine glass", is called differently from place to place, but the scientific name is uniformly called myrtle. Myrtle aliases: Doni, Gangjing, Shanjing, Dolian, Dang pear root, barley tree, bean barley, Zhongni, Wu Tu, Peach Uncle Niang, Dang Ni, is a kind of shrub plant widely distributed in rural areas, generally in the wasteland, hillside sunny places. In the "Outline of The Remains" there is a detailed record, the grass flowers in the name of the mother, there are myrtles, bushes of wild, like plums and slightly sharp, like peaches and color times, the middle stem is pure purple, silk embellished with dark yellow like golden millet, the name of the peach golden lady.
However, in the eyes of most people, the name of myrtle is just a code name, most of the region is called Doni, and the fruit is a kind of best wild fruit. In the past, after August every year, the mountains were full of delicious black fruits such as myrtles, and children picked it and directly peeled it and drew the core, and then the remaining flesh was directly stuffed into their mouths to enjoy. However, after eating too much, there will be a phenomenon of difficulty in going to the toilet, which is also well documented, in the "Taiwan Medicinal Plants" on the myrtle fruit record: "Children eat it, or it is difficult to defecate." ”。 But in fact, there are basically no rural children who will worry about these things, only think that this myrtle fruit is a delicacy, pick as much as you want, and feed your mouth.
It is also because too much myrtle eating will cause difficulties in going to the toilet, which makes people have such a deep impression on it. To this day, in the eyes of many elderly rural people, the experience of gluttony is still a beautiful childhood memory.
In the past when there was a lack of snacks in the countryside, myrtles and wild fruits such as August melons, dates, and sour dates were the best snacks for rural babies. At that time, rural children would run to the mountains to pick some when they were hungry, and these wild fruits were not only free but also delicious. However, everyone's understanding of myrtle is limited to this, or there is no more.
In fact, in addition to the fruit can be eaten as a snack as a wild fruit, the myrtle can be used as a medicinal purpose. According to the "Fujian Chinese Herbal Medicine", the fresh root of the myrtle can "cure stomach pain". Among them, the "Flower Mirror" book during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty pointed out that "hypericum is a myrtle." Ripe in August and September, cyanosis is milky, its taste is sweet, and it can be used for medicinal purposes. This points out that the myrtle can be medicated and sweet.
It can be seen that myrtle is not only a delicious wild fruit, but also a certain medicinal value of the whole plant, which is very precious. In recent years, in the economic market, myrtle has reflected a social value, the ornamental value of potted flowers. According to the author's understanding, in the Nanjing area of Zhangzhou, Fujian Province, there is a large-scale special planting of myrtles, and the circulation of flowers is cultivated in the form of flowers. In 2017, local farmers relied on planting tens of thousands of myrtle potted plants, achieving more than 20,000 benefits a year, driving the development of the local emerging plant cultivation industry.
I wonder if any of you have grown myrtles in your local area? Did you ever pick a myrtle when you were a kid? Remember that now? Welcome to leave a message to tell us your opinion! The above is only a personal opinion, for reference only! The picture is from the internet, the copyright belongs to the original author!