It turns out that this kind of vegetable we often eat used to be a tribute to the emperor!

Red cabbage, alias Hongshan cabbage, also known as "Brassica","purple song", is a specialty of Wuhan Hongshan area. Red moss color purple, crisp and tender fragrance, rich nutrition, often eat not tired, Wuhan people winter and spring two seasons of one of the home-cooked dishes, with Wuchang fish said. As early as Tang Dynasty, red cabbage moss has been famous all over the world, once Hubei local tribute to the emperor's native products.

On red cabbage, Qing people once sang in "Hankou Bamboo Branch Ci":"Do not need to pay attention to food, winter people have good food, rice wine dumplings are friendly at night, bream fat and beautiful cabbage moss fragrance." Empress Dowager Cixi regarded it as "golden palace jade dish" and often sent people to Chu to ask for it. Red cabbage is rich in nutrients, containing calcium, phosphorus, iron, carotene, ascorbic acid and other components, a variety of vitamins than Chinese cabbage, cabbage are high. And the color is gorgeous, the texture is crisp and tender, and it is a good companion to meals.

Red cabbage can be stir-fried, vinegar fried, can also be spicy fried. Its color is blue with purple, its taste is fresh and refreshing, Wuhan people all like to eat. Of course, among them, especially red cabbage fried bacon is the most unforgettable.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that red cabbage is sweet, spicy and flat. It can activate blood circulation, disperse blood stasis, benefit intestinal tract and stop bleeding. For women postpartum, blood stasis abdominal pain; vomiting blood, diarrhea, hematochezia; constipation.