The end of the Han dynasty Zhuge Liang living in Longzhong, once he went up to the mountains to pick medicine, inadvertently found a kind of leaves look like radish, but he dug up a look and is not a radish, dug out of this thing and the size of a fist, above the big, below the small and pointy, he bit, not bitter, not astringent, savored a little bit, but also slightly with a little bit of spicy and sweet. At this time he was thinking: the ground grass can nourish people, this thing if there is no poison, not as a dish to eat? Then he dug up a few more and brought them home, and told his wife Huang to fry a plate.
Dish on the table after the family tasted said delicious, asked Zhuge Liang said this is what dish, Zhuge Liang thought about it and said, call it "big head vegetable" it. After dinner Zhuge Liang and dug some big head cabbage, planted in their own fields. Since then Zhuge Liang family often use the big head of vegetables for dinner. One year the wind and rain, Zhuge Liang field planted daturai to a bumper harvest. At a time so much daikonai can't eat, Zhu Geliang will these leftover daikonai pickled up, wait until the next year a taste, even more delicious than just harvested fresh daikonai. The family ate for more than a year, the pickled cabbage not only did not spoil the flavor did not run, but also more and more fragrant.
This thing makes Zhuge Liang very happy, wait until the season of planting daturai arrived, he planted a lot of daturai seedlings, sent to the people nearby, and teach them how to plant daturai, how to pickle daturai, Zhuge Liang's boy did not understand the reasoning behind it, and asked: "Mr. Xiangyang is never short of lei, you let the people to plant so much daturai to do what ah! "Zhuge Liang said as if nothing had happened: "It will have its own use when the time comes". Within a few years, the big head cabbage spread around Xiangnan.
After that, Zhuge Liang assisted Liu Bei to unite Wu against Cao, the soldiers were always short of food, Zhuge Liang sent people to Xiangyang to buy pickled dashi. The pickled dahlias were convenient to bring up, tasteful to eat, and not bad to put away. Xiangyang's big head of cabbage in people's lives played a great role, Xiangyang people basically as long as the rice will eat big head of cabbage, in order not to forget Zhuge Liang's credit, we called the big head of cabbage "Kongming dish".