Ilan is a museum. 12 "take a stroll over aquatic plants and listen to the forest stories of aquatic plants."

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Photo by Zhang Yayun / tr. by Phil Newell)

There is a kind of love for the place, which is shown in the invisible, and it is the kind that naturally makes people feel kind.

Walking along the path beside the ecological pool of water plants in Shengyang, Xu Chih-hsiung folded the leaves of Zizania latifolia and said, "the leaves can be used to fold the plane, and the competition will see who can fly far." the next second, the plane of Zizania latifolia has arced out of his hand and fell into the pool. After a while, he approached the wild ginger flower area, picked a wild ginger flower, took off the calyx leaves under the flowers, and blew the curled leaves in his mouth. Unexpectedly, the sound made by the leaves was very much like the cry of the red-crowned water chicken chicks in the pond. Xu Zhixiong smiled faintly and said, "when I was a child, I always played like this. Wherever I went, I could use local materials as toys."

All the plants picked up in the garden can be played by children.

Xu Zhixiong has been in charge of aquatic plants for more than 20 years. At present, the work of guided tours in the park is mainly entrusted to the staff, but when he has the opportunity to listen to his personal introduction, he can instantly understand not only the aquatic plants, but also his childhood stories and hometown memories.

As teacher Lu Lizheng, who spawned the Ilan Community Museum movement, said, "hometown is a magical place to create dreams to take off." the Shengyang aquatic plant family flows out of a chapter of local industry intertwined with water, aquaculture, and aquatic plants.

Ecological pool, full bloom of grass, waterbird paradise

When you walk into Shengyang aquatic plants, the first impression of tourists should be the green and glittering fish ponds in the eyes, and the gray-scale clear water mold water plant culture center located on the fish ponds, reflecting the distant mountain scenery, and all the elements are intertwined into a good mountain and good water in Ilan.

"once upon a time, when tourists came to visit us in winter, they looked at a pool of dead grass on cloudy and rainy days and gave us negative comments on the Internet. I was really helpless." Xu Zhixiong said that, in fact, aquatic plants will hibernate. Following Shuicaoda people around the ecological pool is like entering a story hall of aquatic plants forest. We meet aquatic plants almost every day, but people don't know much about them, such as rice, Zizania caduciflora, lotus seeds, water chestnuts, hollow vegetables, and so on. These foods come from aquatic plants.

Aquatic plants can be divided into four categories: submerged, floating, floating and standing up. At Shengyang Farm, as long as there is an appointment for a tour guide, plus bending down close to the ground and pool observation, there will be unexpected surprises.

A lot of daily food comes from aquatic plants.

Daba Tian Xiang exudes the charm of star anise

Squatting down, Xu Chih-hsiung took a small plant from the water bank and rubbed it in his hands. "what's the smell?" Unexpectedly, the small leaves exude "star anise flavor". This is Daye Tian Xiang, which grows in flowing and quiet waters. In the past, farmers could use local materials in the field, pull out some of them and daub them on their bodies to prevent mosquitoes and stop itching. It was a natural anti-mosquito product in ancient times. In addition, the more halogen is used for halogen, the sweeter and sweeter it will be, and it can also be used to make cheese, so Shengyang's aquatic plant meal has developed "Dayetian fragrant Cheese", and "Oyetian fragrant Cheese" has also helped Shengyang win the first prize for characteristic products in the National Leisure Agriculture and Fisheries Park.

Toothed water lilies, flowers and stems can be served.

There are water lilies everywhere in the ecological pool of Shengyang, but visitors are often confused about lotus, lotus and water lilies. The guide staff simply made it clear that "the lotus is the lotus", that is, the flower that comes out of the mud but does not stain, belongs to the standing water plant, its leaves are waterproof and will not be wet, and people will eat its lotus seeds and lotus roots, while water lilies are floating-leaf plants, the leaves will be wet, and the flowers and stems are edible.

The flowers of water lilies are edible and are used for making tea or cooking. They have the effect of calming the mind and helping sleep. While the stem of toothed water lily is edible, like hollow cabbage, the hollow stem tastes a little salty in order to breathe in water, a bit like a taro stalk, and the stem is rich in minerals and iron. In the past, a few people pickled it into pickles. There are many kinds of water lilies, and some of them are bad to eat. Tooth-leaf water lilies are more delicious.