Artemisia argyi and Acorus calamus are regarded as auspicious plants for the Dragon Boat Festival and are essential in herbal soup. On the eve of the Dragon Boat Festival every year, it is sold in major vegetable markets in urban areas and can also be bought in general pharmacies.
Chrysanthemum indicum: flower head, similar in appearance to chrysanthemum. The wild is in the community green space, the wild roadside. It is best to be yellow, sessile, complete, fragrant and incomplete.
Peach branch: it is the tender branch of peach or mountain peach in Rosaceae, which can be taken from ordinary peach trees.
Copper grass: often curled into a ball with a slender stem. I like to be born on wet river banks and grasslands.
Juncus: the underground stems are short, creeping, and the stems are clustered and upright, cylindrical. Most of them grow by rivers, ponds, ditches, rice fields and grasslands.
Mulberry leaf: It is the leaf of Mulberry, a Moraceae plant, which is born in the forest and beside the road.
Plantain: also known as mustard, the flower stem is as high as 50 cm and has fibrous roots. It grows in Shan Ye, roadsides, gardens, vegetable gardens, ponds, rivers and other places.
Houttuynia cordata Thunb It is the dry water part of perennial herbs of Saururaceae. Common in ditches, streams and other wet areas.
Lobelia chinensis: also known as Lobelia chinensis, Cucurbitaceae, etc. , a small perennial herb of Campanulaceae, about 10 cm high. Born in wet areas such as paddy fields, ditches and roadsides.
There is also a saying in Guangxi:
Cows are ruminants. After they eat forage, they don't digest it immediately, but ruminate semi-digested plant fiber into their mouths from time to time and chew it constantly. After feeding herbs for several days, the cow was slaughtered and the herbs in the stomach were not fully digested. Take it out and knead it into juice by hand. After several filtering procedures, skim the residue, add water to boil, and then add beef offal to make a pot of braised soup. According to legend, it has the effects of clearing away heat and purging fire, expelling toxin and relaxing bowels, hence the name Baicao Decoction. It is a dish used by Miao and Dong people in Sanjiang, Rongshui and other places in Liuzhou to receive distinguished guests. It is not easy to taste, and its tradition is quite long.
"Record of Ridge Noodles" says: "Those who are not soup are the scale of cattle intestines. Liuzhou is not far from my toes, so I eat almost the same, and so on. " Textual research on herbal soup in Tang Dynasty came from Vietnam, which was called "Bu Nai Tang" in ancient times. Liuzhou has become the origin of spreading foreign food culture because of its proximity to Vietnam and its geographical convenience. Yu Jiao, a poet in A Qing, wrote in Poems on Rural Areas in Qu Zhi: "People who take out the intestines of cattle, remove the dirt and knead their juice as white as pulp will gather in the pond to eat the meat of cattle. People think it is dirty, but it is true. " Until the Qing Dynasty, people in the Central Plains still regarded Baicaotang as uncivilized and savage food. Even now, many people in Liuzhou feel that the way of making white grass soup is disgusting. Not only do they dare not try it, but they also give it a very vulgar name-Niu's soup.