These days, an underwater Chinese-style dance video “Luo Shen Shui Fu” of less than two minutes has become popular on the Internet, allowing many netizens at home and abroad to learn about the legendary story of the thousand-year-old Luohe. Today, a special delicacy in Luoyang appeared on the hot search of Weibo in the same city, once again attracting the attention of netizens. As of press time, the topic has been read by more than 30 million people.
This time, it is the local Dragon Boat Festival specialty food in Luoyang – mistletoe (hú) dumplings. On the 13th, a scenic spot in Luanchuan County used more than 3,000 mistletoe (hú) dumplings and millet to form the “Peony Dragon Boat Map” to welcome the arrival of the Dragon Boat Festival in this special way.
Related topics sparked many comments from netizens, and some people asked: “Now I’m rushing to Luoyang overnight, I don’t know if it’s too late?” Some people also sighed: “Awesome! Now the impression of Henan has been subverted. ”
Zheng Zhenfu, a well-known scholar of literature and history in our city, said that mistletoe is a very characteristic Dragon Boat Festival food in western Henan, in the county chronicles of Luoyang counties during the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, when describing the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival, the word “zongzi” rarely appears, and it is generally recorded that “eating horn millet”. For example, in the “Luoyang County Chronicles” of the Republic of China, it is recorded that “May 5 is the Duanyang Festival, and the dawn is inserted into the door, and the male yellow is drunk to avoid evil.” 粔 (jù) 籹 (nǚ), horn millet to eat, and give to relatives and friends…… “The horn millet here is mistletoe, that is, a rice dumpling wrapped in mistletoe leaves.
Zheng Zhenfu introduced that Luoyang has many mistle trees since ancient times, and in the pen of the poet of the Tang Dynasty, Luoyang mistle trees are a beautiful landscape. Wen Tingyun wrote about the scene in the south of Luoyang where his friend worked in the poem “Sending Luonan Li’s Master Book”: “Mistletoe leaves are lost, and citrus oranges are full of spring. Sikong Shu, who was the chief bookkeeper of Luoyang, wrote in the poem “Snow”: “The mistletoe leaves in the middle of the mountain are under the window, and I have heard the sound of snow all night. ”
For a long time, Luoyang people used mistletoe leaves to wrap zongzi. Every year before the Dragon Boat Festival, the ripe mistletoe leaves emit a rich aroma. People go up to the mountains to pick it, let it dry in the shade, and then wrap it with millet rice, and when cooked, it becomes mistletoe. According to the need, you can also add red dates, walnut kernels, etc. to make sweet mistletoe dumplings, or add ham, bacon, etc. to make salty mistletoe dumplings. (Photo courtesy of Luo Bao financial media reporter Liu Jiayi scenic spot)
