Golden apricot in flooded areas
"Saturday, the water leaks from the shore" is the cycle of the people in the Mekong River about the special flood season of the land. As a miracle of creation, every year in the 7th lunar month, water from the upper Mekong River flows strongly into the mainland. When floodwaters overflowed the canals surrounding the fields, storks flew straight, creating immense seas of water, it was also the time when the banyan tree in the flowering season.
Not only is it the only wild flower that blooms to welcome the flood, but the flowering journey of the langurs is also very unique. From the barren soil along the canals and ditches, without caregivers, no fertilizers, no protective drugs, the annual flower garden blooms and blooms, reaching its tops, sucking in the air from the sky and blooming with clusters of brilliant yellow flowers like yellow apricot blossoms blooming in the spring. But more than the yellow apricot is enhanced with the color of Spring, the romantic lentils are a gift from nature that loves flooded areas.
Because not only does it create a typical symbol of the flood season in the Mekong Delta, the water lily also acts as a support for people in flooded areas to reduce their feelings of being uncomfortable in the face of immense water... The water lily is small, thin and soft, as if just a light collision is enough to break it down, but it has a very strong vitality.
After the flood receded, the trees themselves produced fruit and buried the seeds themselves in the ground, then waited until next year to grow up and bloom, continuing the new life cycle. It is like a constant passion for being attached to the Mekong Delta from generation to generation, to the point of being remembered by many generations far from home as the shadow of their homeland...
The lawrence tree is also as soft as a herb, but they know how to form clusters to create the strength to cope with the surprising waves of nature during the rainy and stormy season in the South. Inside the seemingly simple life cycle, there is content within the endogenous strength. For the poor, the cotton is as good as a lifebuoy. Amidst the waves, just swim along the canals, where there are wild raincoats growing, picking at once is a delicious dish of fresh vegetables...
Moreover, when the phoenix blooms, it is also the departure time of many Southwestern specialties that only come once a year. Most people know and enjoy the delicious lentil dish with linh fish, a fish endemic to the Mekong River. Like the pair of reptiles of the crop, when the freezing frankinxes bloom, it is also the time when linh fish flows in from upstream at the beginning of the season. And after 3 months of being released on the natural rivers of the continental region, this herd of fish suddenly lost their toothpick, which was the end of the lumpy flower season.
The buoy for flooded areas
Not only associated with the flood season like a ball, the kittens and kittens and the flood season contribute to creating a harmonious picture between people and nature. With its outstanding and unique beauty, the lentil bloom has turned the flood season into the "Paradise of life" of the Southern river. The whitewaters suddenly erase the violence as the winds come to encounter the clusters of bound mountains like strongholds. Moreover, floodwaters also "ship" the city's lentils to become a life buoy for flooded areas.
Without much care, the baguette plant is content with siltation but sprouts, sucking in the air of the sky and blooming, so the baguette flower is considered a pure clean vegetable of nature. The kings and xinxi flowers are crispy and have a charming taste, a little pleasant, but each person has different expressions depending on their emotions.
But whether difficult or easy, everyone after enjoying it all shares the same feeling of cotton as the catalyst of dishes. The crispy sauce like the sound of a flute accelerates the flavor, then a little filling and flavor, both adds flavor to the dish and is like a preservative to prevent coating the coating fat... to make the dish delicious until the last piece.
Moreover, those fresh, crispy yellow flowers are like a light that shows off their colors, adding a rich flavor to many popular dishes that reach the level of specialty, welcomed by the social elite, such as braised fish sauce, banh xeo... Because behind that unique flavor, lentils are also a medicinal dish.
Many traditional medicine works and some modern medical studies have recorded that water hyacinth has many medicinal properties that are calculated for their effects of cooling, detoxifying, anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, supporting blood sugar control, diuretic, and sedative. Therefore, although the cotton is small, thin and light, it carries the mission of a lifebuoy for flooded areas.
First of all, it is the ability to be like a life buoy. Because not only providing food for local people, the lentil cotton also paves the way for people in flooded areas to earn more income through trade. With an average price of 100,000 VND/kg, just having to row a boat to the field behind the house for a while can be enough money to buy fish and meat.
Realizing this value, in recent years, people in the upstream area of the Mekong River have proactively planted yellow-legged gourd and earned millions of dong a day. Some households even go ashore, proactively making artificial floodwater to bloom unseasonably and harvest all year round. Or, some people go all the way to Thailand to bring water hyacinth seeds for the flowers to be twice as big as the native plant and can bloom all year round when sowing seeds right on the ground as a way to fill the remaining gap in the year of the traditional water hyacinth tree.
Still intact and bright yellow, this romantic flower is sought after by many people at a price of a whopping... But for gourmet people, it feels burned without the rich soul, richness of flavor and especially the inherent authenticity of the rustic dish.
Not only that, the mountain goose is also considered a buoy for the Mekong Delta. Because it not only contributes to filtering flood water sources, life, Prof. Dr. Vo Tong Xuan (1940 - 2024) has repeatedly emphasized the role of "the factory supplying protein" of the langur. And thanks to these factories, the rice fields in the Long Xuyen Quadrangle and Dong Thap Muoi seem like the crystallization of rice, but gradually increase rice prices.
The Southwest is entering the flood season, linh fish has appeared in rural markets at the beginning of the season. In the water-filled fields, the cadres also competed to show off their bright yellow flowers. come and enjoy it once to see and feel the endogenous vitality of yellow apricot trees in flooded areas in the Southwest.
