Speaking of "wild vegetables", it is an interesting childhood story for comrades living in rural areas after 1970s and 1980s! Every morning, I will follow my parents to pick wild vegetables in the mountains. With the fresh air and the fragrance of the earth, the work of the day began. Older elders in rural areas, whenever picking wild vegetables, will talk about the more nutritious and pure natural wild vegetables on the mountain. Then why do the older generation support wild vegetables?

1. Purity of wild vegetables on the mountain

Wild vegetables in rural mountainous areas are not polluted by industrial environment, nor are they artificially planted and interfered, especially pesticides, fertilizers and urban sewage. Make it a pure natural organic food without pollution. Under the wonderful gift of nature, it is more nutritious.

Second, the medicinal value of wild vegetables

The older generation in our village knows that this wild vegetable can not only be eaten, but also cure diseases. Everyone knows that there are more than 100 kinds of wild vegetables, which can be eaten all year round. There is shepherd's purse, which has a good preventive and therapeutic effect on blood pressure, chyluria, hematuria and nosebleeds. Gouqitou has the functions of nourishing liver and kidney, benefiting essence, clearing away heat, quenching thirst and improving eyesight. And ponytail, clearing away heat and toxic materials, cooling blood and stopping bleeding. The medicinal value of this wild vegetable is not only recognized by the older generation, but also strongly recommended by health experts. Not only can it be rated as this delicious food, but it can also protect our own health. Why not?

3. Rare wild vegetables in the mountains

With the development of economy, the expansion of population and the expansion of land, the wild vegetables in the mountains are decreasing day by day. For the post-90s generation, talking about "wild vegetables" after 00 can only be said that I have heard of it, but I haven't seen it with my own eyes. They can only listen to the older generation that wild vegetables are nutritious, and then they believe it. But for those born after 80s, 70s and even older, it is a memorable memory, which may never appear.

Now that living conditions are getting better and better, most rural people don't want to eat these wild vegetables anymore, because picking wild vegetables is a tiring and troublesome thing. Moreover, most of the young people in rural areas have gone out, leaving the old people in rural areas unable to walk, let alone go up the mountain to pick these wild vegetables.