Yellow rat meat

Yellow rat meat

(Yin Shan Zheng Zheng)

[source] it is the meat of Rattus flavipectus.

[animal morphology] Rattus flavipectus (Yinshan Zhengzheng), also known as ritual Rattus and arched Rattus (Han Changli Collection), beaver (compendium), ground squirrel, big eye thief and Mongolian Rattus flavipectus.

Body length is about 20 cm, tail length is about 6 cm. The body is slender, with a big head, short ears and big eyes. The forepaws are well developed, large and straight, with bare forepaws and hairy hindpaws. There are cheek pouches. The female has 5 pairs of nipples. The whole body is yellow with brown black. The forehead and head are deep and yellowish brown. The upper and lower lips and eye circles were white. It's yellow. Summer hair is shorter and darker than winter hair.

It lives in grassland or sand, lives in caves and moves in the daytime. The hibernation period is longer. The main food is the stems and leaves of herbs, or wild vegetables, soybean seedlings, etc. And often steal food soybean, corn, sorghum, millet and other crops. They also eat insects.

Distributed in Northeast, Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong, Shaanxi, Gansu and other places.

[nature and taste] "Yinshan Zhengzheng" is sweet, flat and non-toxic. "

[functions and indications] Compendium: "moisten the lung and generate fluid, paste the decocting ointment on sore swelling, detoxify and relieve pain. "

[taboo] Yinshan Zhengzheng: "if you eat too much, you will get sore. "