What's the name of Chinese cabbage?
What's the name of Chinese cabbage?
Chinese cabbage, commonly known as green vegetables, belongs to Brassicaceae. This kind of vegetable has strong adaptability to the environment, which can withstand both low temperature and high temperature. It is planted, picked and sold all year round.
Chinese cabbage is also called Piaoerbai, Jiaocai, Piaoerbai, Rape, Wuta, Taigu and Taigu. It is also called "rape" in some parts of Northeast China and "bleaching two whites" in Southwest China.
What does Chinese cabbage look like?
Chinese cabbage is a kind of herb with a plant height of about 30-70cm. The whole plant is hairless, frosty, spindle-shaped, with inverted basal leaves and terminal racemes with yellow flowers. The flowering and fruiting period is from April to May.
Where does Chinese cabbage grow?
Chinese cabbage is cultivated all over the world, originated in Asia, and widely cultivated in the Yangtze River valley of China, mainly distributed in Hebei, Shandong, Jilin, Liaoning, Shandong, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hubei and other provinces.
Efficacy and function of Chinese cabbage
Chinese cabbage is delicious for making soup, stuffing and stir-frying vegetarian dishes. This dish can also be used as medicine, and it belongs to lung, stomach and large intestine meridian. It has the effects of promoting digestion, moistening intestines, resolving phlegm, relieving cough, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst, and has certain curative effects on food retention, constipation and quenching thirst.