When those red berries come in spring, they flush on your southern branches. Take a hug home for me as a symbol of our love! -Wang Wei

Legend has it that in ancient times, there was a man who went out to war, and his wife leaned against the big tree on the mountain day and night to pray; I cried under the tree because I missed my lover in frontier fortress. When the tears dried up, bright red blood dripped out. Blood drops turn into red beans, take root and sprout, grow into trees and be full of red beans, which people call acacia beans. Day after day, I went to Qiu Lai in spring. The fruit of the big tree, along with the miss in the girl's heart, has gradually become the most beautiful red heart-shaped seed on the earth-acacia beans. -turn from: whose heart does red bean represent?

Red beans have a profound cultural heritage. Real acacia red beans, extra-large grain shape, diameter of 8-9 mm, per catty 1700. This real acacia red bean is endowed with a special quality by nature: hard as a diamond, bright as blood, like a beating heart, red and shiny, not decaying, crystal clear and never fading. Its shape and texture are "heart-shaped". Really big-hearted, careful and soul mate. Legend has it that lovesick people can't dissolve under the tears tree and finally condense.

In the folk, acacia red beans are as spiritual and auspicious as jade: make a promise and send a string of acacia beans, and you will get a smooth love; When getting married, the bride will wear a bracelet or necklace made of bright red locust beans on her wrist or neck, which symbolizes that both men and women are soul mates and grow old together; After marriage, six acacia beans are placed under the pillow of the husband and wife, which can ensure that the husband and wife are United and happy for a hundred years. At present, acacia red bean ornaments are popular in South China. Fashion women are proud to wear exquisite red bean ornaments, and male and female lovers choose acacia red bean ornaments to express their love. Red beans, as the sustenance of acacia, have existed since ancient times.

Red bean trees bloom in April-May, and the flowers are bisexual. It can only ripen in September-65438+10, and the fruit is flat. Its texture is leathery, nearly round and without mesocarp. The pod contains 1~2 bright red and beautiful seeds. It's acacia red beans. There is no certain regularity in flowering and fruiting of red bean trees. Some trees bloom only once every few decades, and after flowering, they may not bear fruit, so they become rare treasures.

English name of red bean: red bean

Main effects: treating edema, removing beriberi and enriching blood.

Date of birth: 65438+ from late February to early February of the following year.

Nutrition: amino acids, vitamin B and iron.

Edible part: seeds.

How to eat: cook.

Red beans, also known as adzuki beans and adzuki beans, are officially called adzuki beans in Shen Nong's Classic of Materia Medica and Compendium of Materia Medica, and are a kind of food with the same origin of medicine and food. Red beans are sweet, flat and non-toxic. In traditional medicine, it is mainly used for promoting blood circulation (such as treating edema), invigorating qi (such as removing beriberi) and strengthening the spleen. That is, it has the effects of invigorating spleen, promoting diuresis, detoxifying and reducing swelling. Therefore, Shen Nong's Herbal Classic in Han Dynasty expounded its function: "Red bean can dredge the small intestine, facilitate urination, reduce swelling and expel pus, clear away heat and toxic materials, treat dysentery and beriberi, quench thirst and hangover, and promote lactation and fertility." "So in Sun Simiao's" For Emergency Use ",there will be a medicated diet made of red beans and carp to improve edema beriberi caused by pregnant women in the third trimester. It is precisely because carp can nourish and diuresis, while red beans can diuresis, clear away heat and detoxify. In traditional Chinese medicine, red beans can improve edema caused by kidney, heart and beriberi, which is mainly due to the role of saponin compounds contained in them. In addition to diuresis and constipation prevention, they also have detoxification and vomiting effects. The content of saponins in the seed coat of red beans is particularly high, so don't peel red beans when cooking. According to modern nutritional analysis, red beans are rich in vitamin b 1, which can not only prevent fatigue substances from depositing in muscles, prevent beriberi, but also make sugar easier to decompose and burn. So red beans also have the effect of preventing obesity. "Dietetic Materia Medica" says: "Eat thin people for a long time. The enclosed red bean carp soup is a famous slimming dish. Red bean is a very suitable food for women, because it is rich in iron and has a good blood-enriching function. Whether it is aimed at improving postpartum hypogalactia's condition of pregnant women or relieving the discomfort symptoms of ordinary women during menstruation, drinking a bowl of hot red bean soup often can play a role in regulating menstruation and promoting lactation. However, it must be noted that it is best not to mix it with sweets such as glutinous rice balls and rice balls, because the heat will be too high, but you can add a little brown sugar, which will have a warming effect.

In modern nutritional analysis, red beans have always been considered as a staple food with high nutritional content. However, in the process of human digestion, the bean fiber of red beans is easy to produce gas in the intestine, so people with weak intestines and stomach often have flatulence and other discomfort after eating red beans. In fact, when people eat red beans, they are used to adding some sugar to improve the taste. But from the perspective of Chinese medicine, they think that "being willing makes people full". Therefore, people with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold are more likely to feel full if they eat too many sweets. Therefore, adding a little salt when cooking red beans will have the effect of "softening and hardening" and help to eliminate flatulence.

In addition, when some people cook red beans, in order to remove the astringency, they will scald them once before cooking, but the water for scalding red beans contains dissolved saponin compounds, so don't pour them out, and then cook them with red beans. Red beans are often cooked with cereals such as oat or barley. Because protein contained in red beans is an incomplete amino acid, it must be eaten with cereals, which is more helpful to health.