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Allium chinense G.Don. is also known as rakkyo (藠头) or rakkyo (藠, rakkyo, shaving, yingyao, jiào), small garlic, allium head, wild garlic, wild leeks, and so on. People in Inner Mongolia and Shanxi call "Allium" as "pest". Allium chinense G. Don. is a perennial herb of the genus Allium, family Liliaceae, and a vegetable plant. It is native to China, and is recorded in the Han Book, Gong Yi Biography. Now, the southern provinces are planted, the northern people rarely eat Allium.

Leaves dense green, elongated tubular, triangular cross-section. Leaf sheaths clasp into a pseudostem, the base forming a thick bulb. Bulb spherical, onion-like, white, is the main edible part. Flowering stems in the fall, umbels, small flowers. Used medicinally, it has the functions of regulating qi and broadening the chest, promoting yang, and expectorating phlegm.

Jiangxi Xinjian was named "Hometown of Shallot in China" by the Ministry of Agriculture of China.

The most famous elegy in ancient China, "Shallot", was produced in the Han Dynasty and was sung at least until the Tang Dynasty. It has only four lines: "The dew on the scallion, how easy it is, the dew is still falling in the morning, when will people return when they die?"

Allium is also known as Allium cepa, buckwheat head, fire onion, three white, vegetable cheese, oat, Hong Aloe, wild leeks and so on.