Title: Chinese Cabbage
English: Chinese cabbage
Genus: annual and biennial herbs of the cruciferous Brassica. There are two groups of groups including the ball and the non - ball.
Source: the leaf bulb of cruciferous plant Brassica pekinensis R..
Alias: Chinese cabbage, Chinese cabbage, Chinese cabbage, non heading Chinese cabbage, 100 fortune. Guangdong is also called Shaoxing or yellow teeth white.
Sexual taste: slightly cold, sweet.
Function: nourishing the stomach and clearing away the heat. [1]
Summary
Mustard (Brassica) vegetables, the scientific name is Brassica pekinensis. Leaves can be eaten.
Annual and biennial herbs of Brassica. There are two groups of groups including the ball and the non - ball.
Two widely cultivated Brassicaceae plants. Beijing cabbage (Brassica pekinensis) is also known as Chinese cabbage and Chinese cabbage. Its leaves are light green and wrinkled, and the leaves are tightly closed. One type is Tianjin cabbage, the leaf bulb is slender, cylindrical, and is about 45 centimeters (18 inches) high. Chinese cabbage has been cultivated in the United States for salad vegetables. Napa is similar, but the leaf bulb is shorter, thicker and 30 centimeters higher (12 inches). Chinese Cabbage (Brassica chinensis) is also known as Chinese mustard, Chinese cabbage, and non heading Chinese cabbage; leaf luster, dark green; thick, white, crisp leaf handle; no leaf ball; yellow cabbage is especially popular. All cabbages are tasty and tender, so they can be served with many foods. Kimchi is a food that can be seen everywhere. It is usually made of cabbage.
Morphological character
Chinese cabbage


Chinese cabbage is a biennial herb with a height of 40-60 centimeters. The whole plant of cabbage is slightly white powdery and glabrous. Sometimes there are a few prickly hairs on the veins below the leaves. Basal leaves large, obovate oblong to obovate, 30~60 cm long and obtuse with a rounded apex, margin crinkling, wavy, sometimes unobstinating teeth, white, wide midveins; many stout side veins, white, flattened petioles, 5-9 cm long, 2-8 cm wide, with a wide and thin wing on the edge; the upper stems with long, round lobes. Form, oblong lanceolate to long lanceolate, 2.5-7 cm long, apex rounded to short, acute, entire or cracked, stipe or clasp, auricular, with cream. Flowers fresh yellow, 1.2-1.5 cm in diameter; pedicel 4-6 mm long; sepals oblong or oval lanceolate, 4-5 mm long, erect, pale green to yellow; petals obovate, 7-8 mm long, base gradually narrowing into claws. The long horned fruit is short, 3-6 cm long, 3 mm wide, squash on both sides, erect, the beak is 4-10 mm long, about 1 mm wide, and the apex is round; the peduncle develops or rises, 2.5-3 cm long. Seed globular, 1-1.5 mm in diameter, brown. The flowering period is May, and the fruit period is June. [2]
Native to North China, it is often cultivated in all parts of the country, especially in the north. Basal leaves are used as vegetables, raw and cooked. They are the main vegetables in autumn and winter in northern China. [5]
Chinese cabbage is an important vegetable in people's life. It tastes delicious and nourishment. It is known as the "king of vegetables", which is loved by the masses. It evolved from Brassica. Serve with tender leaves, rosette leaves or stems. Cultivation area and consumption in China are the top of all kinds of vegetables.
Moral
The meaning of Chinese cabbage is very rich. First of all, the tower symbolizes the everlasting and clear and pure white. It shows that collectors are clean and clean, clean and independent.


Second, Chinese cabbage and "hundred money", "swing material" homophonic, and "hundred money" has the meaning of gathering money, inviting money, making money and making a hundred money. "The pendulum" shows that the rich people, the financial resources are rolling, and the money is too much to be used. Therefore, no matter from the elegant level or the vulgar level, it will be accepted.


In addition, the meaning of Chinese cabbage is also taken from the color and shape of the cabbage.
Place of Origin
Chinese cabbage is native to northern China, and has been introduced into the South and cultivated throughout the north and south. In nineteenth Century, it was introduced into Japan, Europe and the United States. There are many kinds of Chinese cabbage. The northern cabbage has Shandong Jiaozhou cabbage, Beijing green white, Tianjin green, northeast big cabbage, Shanxi's big border. The southern Chinese cabbage is introduced from the north. Its varieties are Wujin Bai, silkworm cabbage, cockscomb and snow green.