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I am from Shangyu, Zhejiang and have a special relationship with dried moldy vegetables. Dried dried mold, also known as wugan vegetable and dried plum vegetable , is a traditional famous dish with low prices and good quality in Shangyu, Shaoxing, Zhejiang. The people of Shangyu in Shaoxing regard it as a famous specialty. Locals generally pickle and make their own, as regular vegetables and are often used as a food for gifts to relatives and friends. In Shangyu , when spring returns to the earth and the wind is bright, it is a good season for pickling dried moldy vegetables. It can be seen that the production of dried moldy vegetables in Zhejiang was extremely common at that time.
In the Qing Dynasty, dried moldy vegetables were listed as one of the "eight major tributes" to Beijing. The production was extremely particular and the selection of ingredients was excellent. It is said that Emperor Qianlong went to Jiangnan six times and tasted dishes made with tribute dishes every time he came to Shaoxing . "Mold Dried Vegetable Braised Meat" is a typical Shaoxing dish that has been included in "Chinese Recipes".
Mr. Lu Xun loves this special dish from his hometown. When Mr. Lu Xun was away from home, his loving mother who lived in his hometown often sent local moldy and dried vegetables from his hometown to Mr. Lu Xun and his children. The dried vegetables are very delicious and the children love them because they have never eaten such dried vegetables. "It can be seen from this that Mr. Lu Xun loves the moldy and dried vegetables produced in his hometown.
I did not leave my hometown to go to the army in the 1980s, and dried vegetables quietly disappeared from my recipes. I came back from the army and returned to the origin of dietary habits. Now, Shangyu, eastern Zhejiang, has developed economy and logistics. The dried vegetables dried by farmers in the southern mountainous areas of Shangyu have been added with dried bamboo shoots, and some have also added peanuts and soybeans to cook together. As a casual snack, I didn't understand the world before, so I gave the best dried vegetables to outsiders in the army. As a result, the foreigners do not recognize the goods and make them dry. Wash the vegetables over and over again, but the essence was gone. This taught me a lesson, that is, giving the things that are unique to my hometown to people who are not my hometown. It is a matter of twice the effort. One place is a place of water and soil to nourish the other. Dried dried vegetables are a treasure for the Shangyu people who were born and raised here, but for a person who loves meat in the north, it is a pile of rotten vegetables.
