Artemisia halophila is not a good memory for me.

My hometown is in the coastal area of northern Jiangsu, which is separated from He Lixia in the west by Fan Gongdi, and this is what later became land.

The ancestors here are said to be immigrants from southern Jiangsu who came from Nagato during the Hongwu period in the early Ming Dynasty. They grow grass, farm, fish and burn salt on the beach. When I was a child, I often saw "saltworks" of different sizes in the fields. The big one is a few acres, and the small one is like a basketball court. It used to be a place for cooking stoves to burn salt. Occasionally, I can see some salt drops and mounds.

Later, abandoned stoves were used for reclamation, and the saltworks had long been abandoned. In these abandoned residual salt fields, weeds have grown around except a large bare place in the middle, and Artemisia halophila is a kind of plant that grows more.

The data show that Artemisia halophila is a small shrub of Artemisia in Compositae. It is distributed in many parts of the country. It's not what I thought. Only in our coastal areas where the sea salt content is high.

The tender head of Artemisia halophila is edible. In the difficult times I just remember, it was a supplement to our food and helped us tide over the difficulties.

My first impression of Artemisia halophila was that I had eaten it. My mother washed most of Artemisia salina, boiled it in water, and then served it on a plate. Everyone ate one chopstick and I ate the other. Although it's not delicious, I can't help it if I'm too hungry to eat.

In autumn, Artemisia halophila will bear seeds. That kind of seed is very small, similar to rapeseed, or even thinner. Some people go to cut Artemisia halophila back like rape, collect Artemisia halophila seeds and grind them for food.

I ate it when I saw my neighbor's house with my own eyes, and all the dishes I cooked were black. When their brother and sister were eating, a brother who was several years older than me was in primary school. He waved the black soup in his hand, dipped it with chopsticks at the door of the pigsty, and wrote "Pigs raise a thousand pounds", which I always remember. Probably not delicious. If it's delicious, they won't run around with it.

Later, when things got better, no one took Artemisia halophila as the staple food. When we choose pig dishes, we are only in front of one kind of pig dishes. And it's not top grade in pig dishes, not even medium. When the pig dishes can't be picked or the time is tight, cut the head of Artemisia halophila back and feed it to the pigs.

Later, due to the agricultural Dazhai movement, rural brigades generally carried out land leveling and land preparation, many original salt fields were rebuilt, and patches of Artemisia halophila disappeared, leaving only a few scattered saline-alkali scars in the fields and ditches on the roadside.

After I went to high school, I stopped raising pigs at home and got rid of this Artemisia. And later, with the implementation of the contract, there was no saline-alkali land in the countryside, and it was all marginal land, so Artemisia halophila was rarely seen in my hometown.

After seeing Artemisia halophila again, I often go to the seaside on the east coast because of my work. It's like going back to the past, and you can still see Artemisia halophila. Moreover, a few years later, Artemisia halophila appeared on the dining table as a nutritious food.

What's even more surprising is that my friend Mr. Cai's company has also developed dehydrated products of special vegetables in coastal areas, which can solve the problem of storage and transportation and are exported to major cities in other places. Among them, there are dehydrated products of Artemisia halophila buds.

Teacher Cai has worked in coastal beaches for a long time and has a deep study of Artemisia halophila. I consulted him specially the other day. He said that the whole coast of northern Jiangsu, from Lianyungang in the north to the Yangtze River estuary in Nantong in the south, is suitable for the growth of Artemisia halophila. Some materials are not introduced, but they need to be above sea level 100 meters.

However, although there are many Artemisia halophila on the seashore, due to the long coastline, we are constantly reclaiming the sea, the beach is moving eastward, and Artemisia halophila is gradually moving eastward. Sometimes I see it in the vegetable market, and some people don't know where they picked it. It costs three or four yuan a catty. Some people say it has high nutritional value, but I am not interested in it because I was afraid of it when I was a child. View from a height or a distance