The Book of Rites: "Chopping spring with onions, fat with scallions. Choose onions and scallions for a gentleman."

"Er Ya": 'Phlegm, Hong Zhi." Note: "Allium vegetables." Another cloud: "Allium Hong Aloe also cloud Jinshan. Stem and leaves are also similar to the family in the root and long leaf difference is only as large as deer onion. Physical nature is also the same as the family Allium. However, now less used vegetables. Although spicy and not meat five organs. Therefore, the Taoists often bait. Both supplemental deficiency, the most appropriate."

Song Lu You. Allium salicornum" "September and October frost all over the house, the family *** fear border vegetables yellow. Small poppies and large urns are used to wash away the slips, and green woad and green leeks are carefully stored." "Frozen scallion this time the price of a thousand gold, not counting the fox spring acacia leaf face."

Qing - Lai Shufan. Spring vegetables": "before Hu fall kettle sweet than meat, wild crystal plate cheap in the service. In the spring, a big nest is born in the smoke and rain, and in ten days, a cluster of fragrant mushrooms is created. The amaranth of the colt's fused teeth is first cut, and the fern of the young elegant fist is still bald. The brown fish Houttuynia cordata is full of bracts, and the wild magpies are shaggy with flowers."

The Legend of the Immortals: "Serving the light serves the roots of the Allium cattail."

Historical Legend: According to the "Book of Han", there is a scholar, surnamed Gong Sui, after the officer to the governor still do not forget the people. Because of the end of the Han Dynasty military chaos, the three kingdoms, resulting in an epidemic of disease. Gong Sui advised the people to plant green onions and scallions to prevent diseases. He stipulated that "for one mouthful of people, plant fifty books of onions, one border of leeks, and one hundred books of scallions."

Folk proverb: "Three onions and four scallions."