Where is the specialty of Ailao Chunshanzhen?

Beets, head vegetables and goat milk vegetables are wild vegetables that people of all ethnic groups like to eat at the main peak of Ailao Mountain. They have always enjoyed the reputation of good food. Because they are all picked and eaten in spring, they are called Ailao Chunsanzhen. Beets, like moisture, grow in rocks and water The main peak area of Ailao Mountain is mountainous, misty and deep, which is very suitable for beet growth. According to "Xinping County Records", the beet of Lysimachia is a green wild woody species, and its tender leaves only appear after flowering. Picked it as soup, ate it, and it tasted sweet. In the spring of March, the scenery of Ailao Mountain is beautiful and charming. No matter which stockade you enter, the hospitable Yi, Hani and Kucong people like to entertain guests with delicious sweet potato soup. Beets are slightly fragrant and the soup is fresh and sweet. After beginning of spring, the wind is high and things are dry, and the lips are chapped. There is always sweet potato soup on the dining table of people of all ethnic groups in Ailao Mountain, which can replenish human body water and stimulate appetite. If you soak some fresh meat in the soup and cook some fresh tofu or eggs, it will taste better. Cephalotaxus, a woody plant growing in the shrub forest in the main bee area of Ailao Mountain, is about three inches long and purple-red, so it is named after its long thorns. According to "Xinping County Records", the head dish looks like an evergreen bud. Edible, bitter and delicious. In early spring and February, Shan Ye turned green, and the catalpa tree sprouted. The Yi, Hani and Kucong people in this area picked them and put them on the market for sale. Remove all the thorns from the first dish with a knife, boil it in boiling water for seven or eight minutes, pick it up and cut it into pieces, and fry it in lobster sauce for three or five minutes before serving. The smell is abnormal, and it also has the effect of removing fire and appetizing. Goat milk vegetable, a vine, is named after its pulp is the same as goat milk. After spring, Wan Sen won the glory. On Ailao Mountain, goat's milk leaves are green. People cut it home with vines and leaves with sickles, picked the leaves and fruits, washed them, mashed them, blended them with sweet white wine made of glutinous rice, added a little salt and put them in jars. You can eat it in half a month. The food is slightly sour and sweet, with a special fragrance, which is unique among the three treasures of Ailaoshan Spring. (Yuxi)